"Extreme Ops" Pushes the Limits of Film making

December 26 2002

Bridgette Sampras: When I was over there, they hired an instructor to sort of help just because mine was so tailored to a specific type of skiing so I had —

Devon: Mm-hmm.

Bridgette Sampras: My form ragged scars (?) being a downhill skier. I had the fortune of having a character that didn't know what to do in the snow and struggled so that helped because I'm not very good and relieving. (laughs)

Cut to: A clip from the movie.

Devon: I skied a little bit in Canada, growing up, so I did some of my own skiing when the slopes go like this and sorta drops maybe be the stunt man, but they had us working with some professionals before shooting and just so that they could make sure we got our basic form down. So that they could get us at a certain rate that the top half of our body would look like we knew what we were doin.

Cut to: Another film clip from the movie.

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