Pulling off a great Steven Spielberg action sequence requires perfect timing
Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor have a tough job in Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi thriller Disclosure Day. They spend most of the film being chased by agents of the Wardex Corporation, an evil group that has been hiding the existence of aliens since the ’40s while profiting from the reverse engineering of extraterrestrial technology. Cybersecurity expert Daniel Kellner (O’Connor) is mysteriously connected to TV meteorologist Margaret Fairchild (Blunt), and when they unite, they discover they have the power to change the world.
[Ed. note: This article contains some spoilers for Disclosure Day]
When the Wardex captures Daniel, Margaret feels a strange urge to drive across the country to save him. He uses his newfound empathy powers to charm his captors, and the two leave with the goal of meeting up with other Wardex defectors to share their extraterrestrial existence with the world. However, Wardex security chief Casper Boyd (Henry Lloyd-Hughes) is horrified by Margaret’s seemingly “unstoppable” power, and takes it upon himself to chase her and Daniel down and kill them both.
Since Margaret can use her powers to stop him if he makes eye contact with her, Boyd attempts to kill her from a distance by repeatedly ramming her car from behind to push it into the path of a freight train. In a dramatic sequence reminiscent of the magical films Spielberg made back in 1989 Indiana Jones and the Last CrusadeBlunt and O’Connor jumped from the car and boarded the train. Spielberg said that Blunt repeatedly hit the train steps while filming the scene.
“It’s really challenging because it’s all about timing,” explains Blunt. “We do have wires, but it’s about jumping and catching, so it’s like we’re hanging by a thread, not supported by a safety rope. It’s about physics and science. A few times Josh missed me and I fell over the side of the train.”
Luckily, they ultimately succeed in doing so, resulting in one of the most thrilling scenes in the film.
Disclosure Day is showing in cinemas now.
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