Axelle, beyond the obvious, what attracted you to portray a powerful female warrior?
Axelle: If you work like I do in the horror films, most of the time as a woman you get offered the part of the victim. You get killed in interesting ways, but that’s about as much fun as it goes. It was just a great opportunity to play something that was the complete opposite of everything I’ve done previously, although I have played some pretty insane people in the past. It was just using physicality to express yourself. There was a lot of stunts and fight choreography and looking incredibly fierce and trying to sell the fact that you can really fight and be scary. It was just brilliant. How did you prepare for the role? Axelle: Part of it was the fact that Neil very much described it as a Western. I thought, “Ok, this is me playing a Native American.” This was a very unique opportunity for me to play a part that is exactly like a Native American fighter going up against the invader. Part of it was just trying to find some kind of aggression in me, which was weirdly channeled by liste
