Interviews: The Fight Captain

Hello All,

Below you'll find my Interview with our Fight Captain, Elizabeth Tait, who has done a great job working on the violence for this show. Take a look at her answers to some of my questions about her work on the show!!!

Thanks and Love!!

Chrich

1. So what does a Fight Captain do?

The Fight Captainis responsible for running all the fights, ensuring fight safety, and also ensuring that the actors are doing the fight choreography well.

2.What made you want to work on this show?

I signed up because it’s the only show that requires a fight captain; It’s also unarmed combat, which is my specialty. The downside is that the fight scenes make me a little upset, but I feel like that connects me to the content even more.

3. What have you found the most difficult part of working on this show?

My job is to watch the violence in this show, including sexual violence, which makes me feel a little uncomfortable. That’s the most difficult part of this job, having to be in charge of watching the sexual violence.

4. What do you see as your piece of the puzzle, or rather your contribution to the production as a whole?

This show is very emotionally hard hitting and it needs those moments of violence to get its message across. The violence is the tip of the iceberg that is the situation in the Congo, and it’s important that we work together to make sure that these scenes do justice to the people of the Congo. It is also important that there is an emotional connection between the characters and their past/present, especially the soldiers performing the violence, because they have to motivate their actions.

5. What has been your favorite part of working on this show?

Working with the actors, just getting to know all of them. Even though I haven’t been here very much, I feel connected to them because of the emotional depth to which I had to go to pull these things out of them. I also love that this show is not full of a lot of majors, these are new people who are getting their chance to shine in this show.