Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorWhen casting the role of Sam for his film “Gunpowder Milkshake,” which hits Netflix July 14, co-writer/director Navot Papushado knew he had a tall order to fill.
The role of the deadly assassin required a bona fide movie star, someone who could carry an entire film and appear in almost every scene.
She had to have action skills to be able to execute elaborate fight choreography often done in one long take without a double.
And not just traditional action scenes — we’re talking some of the most inventive fights committed to film in recent memory, including a sequence where Sam can’t move her arms on her own so she has weapons strapped to her hands while using the rest of her body to propel their.
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