Alexa: It's just more experience, it was more experience to get me here I guess.
Alexa: We had 5 minutes of training. 5 minutes before the thing went on; I thought I was going to have a heart-attack. No, not at all. No, we had Mike stunt coordinator there who taught me everything in 5 minutes.
Alexa: I would never close any doors to anything and if it were a character that I loved regardless, I would definitely give it thought but that is my first love, film.
Alexa: You deal with it differently in every circumstance but I haven't had much exposure to that so I don't know yet.
Alexa: There was a sort of mentor apprentice sort of energy there and she very much wanted to be like him as we see with the shaved head and all the different things, so in The Chronicles Of Riddick she really does want to be like him and move like him and be as good as him and make him proud and make him know that she can handle herself and so that was part of the character work as well.
Alexa: I'm an avid reader, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a bookworm.
Alexa: I'm always working on my Australian accent.
Alexa: I'm reading Mutant Message Down Under which is a story of a woman, this aboriginal tribe in Australia, and I read a bunch of different things at once actually.
Alexa: It was a long string of auditions though the first one there was a lot of time between the first one and the rest of them.
Alexa: But my kiwi accent is better though...
Alexa: I think it's a conscious choice of how you you're your life and what you allow to affect you and what you don't.
Alexa: Just from the very beginning someone who portrays herself as a boy to protect herself is very telling of her character and I think to bring that element throughout the story and throughout her challenges within herself.
Alexa: I think for 6 months, you're doing this every single day and so that was the maintenance and then since we finished the film, I've been keeping it up a bit because it kind of sticks with you, the feeling that it gives is nice.
Alexa: I danced for a bit as a child, I did ballet and I was a bit of a swimmer but I was never an athlete until this and now I love it.
Alexa: I had 2 months of training prior to this film starting and everything from wire-work to fight choreography and weapon training and shooting guns and everything you could think of.
Alexa: You know what, at first it was definitely daunting and I think to step into the shoes that someone else has worn is always going to be a bit awkward but she, Rhianna gave me a real gift, a real gift in the foundation of this character and all I can do is thank her and hope that I did her justice.
Despite initial plans to have continuing character Gwen Raiden appear in Deep Down, Alexa's first appearance in Angel, wasn't until in the next episode: Ground State.
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