Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Inside the Making of the Great 'Eastern Promises' Fight Scene


Over at MEL, they're doing Fight Week, devoting a handful of articles to all things involving punching, fighting, wrestling and other bare-knuckle pursuits. So I wrote about Eastern Promises, which features one of the best recent fight sequences. You know, the one with Viggo Mortensen battling some Chechen thugs in a bathhouse while he's completely naked. I spoke to some of the crew who worked on set to hear their stories. You can read the whole thing here.