Elsa Pataky on Interceptor, Being a Tomboy, and Training Like a Military Member

Elsa Pataky, best known for her role as Elena in the Fast & Furious movies, has a new action film coming out: Interceptor. She stars as JJ Collins, an Army captain who has been assigned to SBX-1 in the middle of the ocean. SBX-1 is one of two miliary outposts that are considered interceptors: they are the first line of defense against Russian bombs, able to send out their own missiles to shoot down bombs headed for the United States. An inside job sees SBX-1 fall to insiders who are working on behalf of the Russians, who are intent on disabling the interceptors so that they can blow up America. Pataky spoke to us about “doing fights and kicking ass.“ There are a lot of fights in the movie, and Pataky tells us she had to learn 800 moves to get all the choreography down. “This is full-on action. One fight after another,“ she says with excitement. We also spoke about her being a tomboy; training to get the right physicality to make a believable military captain; and her favorite fi