Fight scenes and gun training are no strangers to Lauren Cohan. After several years of surviving a zombie apocalypse on The Walking Dead, chances are she would be very effective, should the end of the world come to pass.All of the zombie fighting in the world couldn`t prepare Lauren Cohan for her new role in Mile 22, though. Starring alongside Mark Wahlberg and WWE superstar Ronda Rousey, the actress faced a very different kind of a challenge for the film.However, when it comes to her new movie, Mile 22, the training was very different. `It`s funny because people have been asking a lot about the difference between zombies and people in this movie,` she tells GameSpot while promoting the film. `The zombies don`t have weapons.`That led to a very different regimen for Cohan, who not only studied gun use but also martial arts training as part of her preparation. Given that her character Alice is a member of a paramilitary team tasked with extracting a foreign intelligence asset from a hostile nation, it`s easy to see why an intense stunt and fight training regimen was necessary.One scene, in particular, took a lot of work from Cohan and the rest of the cast and crew. As the team is under siege in a massive apartment complex, a mix of hand-to-hand combat and firefighting lights up the hallways and apartments, as Alice gets into a particularly brutal battle with a character played by Sala Baker (Deadpool 2).`I learned how to do that whole thing,` the actress says proudly. `I learned some good holds and Jiu-Jitsu moves to show how much those two really grapple, Alice and Sala`s character.`As anyone who`s seen The Walking Dead could assume, there`s not a lot of Jiu-Jitsu sparring going on between zombies and the living. Thankfully, the movie`s fight choreographer Ryan Watson prepared Cohan and her fellow cast members for the task. `[We] just drilled that so that it could look messy and haphazard on the day but so that safety wise, we really knew each point we were going ...
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