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- Whoa!
- George Cottle is a mastermind.

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He is the best I've ever worked with.

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I always feel safe, which is number one.

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[director] Action!

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So, we had eight or nine weeks
of prep and rehearsal.

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And we put all of the fights together,

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and we tried to keep the tradition
of what the fights

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and what the bad guys would
normally focus on alive with that element,

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but also put our spin on it.

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George's whole team just have such a
physicality that bring our story to life.

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- [director] Three, two, one, action!
- [grunts]

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[Cottle] Obviously,
wires play such a massive part.

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But the hard thing for wires
with us on this is

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we had to put, at some point,
six, seven, even eight characters

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on wires at the same time,

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and they all had to be very unique
to their own character.

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We couldn't just hang Doc Ock there,
and hang the Green Goblin there,

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because it's, like, no,
they move very differently.

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And Goblin moves around on his flyer,

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so we had to make sure
that when we were doing wires with him,

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that it played uniquely to his movements
and his character.

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And that was one of
the hardest things for us,

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was to make sure that we had
all of those components together

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to make sure that the character
was represented correctly from the wires

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and from the way
they put the fights together.

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[MJ gasping]

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I told you
I never wanted to do this ever again!

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MJ, I'm so sorry, but I can't see anything

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- with your hand in my...
- Sorry. I'm sorry.

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We have an incredible team of people
who make sure that we are very safe.

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It's like, "Whenever in the world
will I be able to experience this stuff?"

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First day we had Zendaya with us
was her jumping off a bridge in New York

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for the opening sequence.

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[screaming]

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We had a scissor lift 55 feet in the air.

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We had two, you know,
100-foot cranes above her.

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[Zendaya] My first day of shooting
was like,

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"We're gonna lift you up
on a cherry picker,

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and you're just gonna jump off."

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And I was like,
"Well, this sounds familiar."

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[Cottle] We had the camera
right next to her on a high-speed winch.

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We had her on a decelerator.

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You know,
she did nearly 50 feet of free fall

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and nine feet of deceleration to a mark

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and absolutely perfect.

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[Zendaya] "What are you doing
at work today?"

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You know, I just put a harness on
and jumped off this thing.

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- [Holland] Stuck it.
- Yay!

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[Holland] Yeah!

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The fight in Happy's condo
we were all very excited about,

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'cause I think our main baseline was just,
"We're going to destroy this condo."

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They're going through buildings,
they're crashing through walls.

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[Cottle] One of my favorite sequences
in the whole movie.

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The Green Goblin is super strong,
and he can take the abuse

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and the violence from Spidey.

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So that was a really interesting
and exciting avenue for us to explore.

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[Fong] You have Willem and Tom
doing a lot of their own stunts

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and wanting to be part
of the physical process.

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We wanted to make a Spider-Man fight
that was just... that was violent.

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He's going through walls.
Goblin's going through walls.

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We're going through floors.

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And we just wanted to make it
as big as it could be,

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as well as really play that
Willem is a demented, evil character.

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[Cottle] Spidey isn't doing so good
in the fight.

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And he's got Goblin against the wall,

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and he's just giving it all he can.

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And Willem is just doing
this incredible reactions with his face

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and then just stops

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and gives the Goblin, like, the laugh,
but that, like, cackle.

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- [cackling]
- [grunting]

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And everybody on set just stopped.

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It kind of made your hair stand on end.

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- Whoa. That was so scary.
- [Willem] So cool.

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All right, guys, focus up. You feel that?

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You know, when you get to
a third-act battle in any film,

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you want it to be satisfying.

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Like, it's a level of emotion, I think,

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that will rival the level of spectacle.

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When you have five plus villains,
three plus heroes,

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MJ, Ned and Doctor Strange in the mix,
it's very, very big.

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And we're having fun with
the setting of the Statue of Liberty.

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[Cottle] Spidey has, for so many years,
been born, bred, raised in New York.

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For them to base the final battle
around the Statue of Liberty

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was pretty incredible, really.

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It's at the Statue of Liberty. [Laughs]

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I mean, there's no way
practically to do that,

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not with a set with
the proper proportions,

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so we have to do it blue screen.

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That shot where we all land on the crown

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is one of the hardest
Spider-Man landings I've ever done

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because the crown was just so uneven,

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and in the Spider-Man suit,
you can't see anything,

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and I was really trying to land
in the most iconic Spider-Man pose.

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[Goblin] Poor Peter.

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Too weak to send me home to die.

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[Cottle] At this point,
Tom has got so much hatred

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and so much of the fight had to be
that raw aggression and that pure anger,

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but, you know, we also know
that he has to hold his temper

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or else that's gonna be the one thing
that's gonna let him down.

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There was some
really fantastic fight stuff,

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and Tom Holland
just absolutely did a fantastic job,

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and Willem brought his A game.

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[cackling]

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Yeah!

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[Holland] I love George,
and I have never once been injured.

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And that's a testament
to his professionalism,

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his skill set, and also his team.

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I'm always very safe.

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[Spidell] I think when you add
more practicality,

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you can show the audience

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that it's actually these people
doing these stunts and all this action.

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The more you can incorporate
those real moments,

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I think it just sells it all so much more.

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I'm in such awe of everyone
on that stunt team

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and our actors
and their ability to pull it off.