By Hindustan Times
After Priyanka Chopra in Don 2 (2011) and Katrina Kaif in Ek Tha Tiger, it’s now Jacqueline Fernandez’s turn to play the harsh girl. The actor has shot a fencing sequence with Saif Ali Khan for Abbas-Mustan’s Race 2. “When Jacqueline heard in regards to the fencing scene, she was worried about how she would manage it,” says Abbas. “We got two experts from Vietnam to show her and told her to practice until she was confident. A SERIES like this needs style and style and also you can’t hurry it up or it's going to not be justified.”
Jacqueline, on her part, worked hard for 2 months to be told the moves. “She was very impressive or even learnt some acrobatics,” says Abbas.
Jacqueline is playing a personality with shades of grey, like everyone else within the film, and Abbas-Mustan desired to make certain that she looked her best for the scene. She wore a fitted costume showing off her curves, along with her hair flowing loose. Abbas says, “Head gear is worn during fencing but when we did that individuals would have assumed a stunt double was doing the scene. So we took cinematic liberty and left her hair loose which looks good with the moves and proves that she’s doing the stunt.”
Jacqueline says, “As our action director Peter Heins, (who earlier did the stunts for Ghajini (2005) and Agent Vinod) was not all for using a double, I needed to train extensively in action stunts and fencing as they're both relatively new to me. Luckily,
my cross fit and yoga background helped me.”
The director duo thought Saif would want lessons too, but “when we asked him, he said that being a Nawab he knows horse riding, fencing and polo. He needed to practice a bit, and then he was good to go,” says Abbas.
