Mireille spoke with BT TV to discuss the new season of Hanna with seven questions!

1. You have a brutal fight scene with Esme Creed-Miles early in season two. How was it to film?

It was so fun. I love doing the action sequences. It’s a very visceral way of spending your day. We had an incredible fight team, who choreographed it and taught me the fight. Then we spent the day picking through those pieces and I was so grateful that my stunt double on that day was also my teacher.

She would sit in front of the monitor and then on any given movement, she would duck in and say, “You’re head needs to move this way, you’re elbow needs to be here”. All that minutiae was incredibly helpful.

2. What is the trick to bringing fighting and acting together to make it feel real?

All acting is about having an objective. Having a set of given circumstances and a goal. And I think fighting is the same. You have an opponent and you have a goal. At least fighting in the context of a film, that fight is supposed to tell a story. My fighting in season two is definitely telling a story.

We spent a lot of time talking about how the choreography needed to tell a story of this journey. And luckily we have the director, the fight choreographer and everyone is watching to make sure you are staying on track.

3. Marissa gets some fantastic costumes. Did you keep any of them?

They’re not always very practical for fighting! Although, this season, she is in flat shoes for the entire season. Last season, I had some tall boots and I said that because she is in a mission mode, she needed to be in flat shoes. I’m in sneakers the whole season, which I just love.

I didn’t keep any costumes from the show, but one of the pairs of sneakers Marissa wears, I bought my own pair. I loved them.

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