Revealing how she trained for the film, Zazie Beetz shared, “Actually, I was shooting a different movie in Cape Town, and I started training when I was there, then I went home for a month and got a trainer, Michael Olajide, who’s incredible. He specializes in boxing, he was a boxer, and he’s truly such a beautiful soul, beautiful man. That was great. When I was home, five days a week, I’d train with him for about two hours, just getting the boxing motion as ingrained in my body as possible. Then I went to set, and I was doing stunt training every day for three weeks before we started shooting.”
Sharing the details of the actual work that went into They Will Kill You, she added, “We would train, but the focus was kind of more on a little bit of conditioning, and then learning the fights, which ends up being a bit more choreography-based, so it’s less physically demanding than actually working out, weight lifting, and doing that kind of thing. We were doing it all, and your girl was tired! But they were really big on not burning me out, which I really appreciated. It made such a huge difference. I just cannot emphasize that enough. I think it allowed me to have the stamina to be doing all the action in this movie.”
Meanwhile, They Will Kill You is all set to premiere on March 27, 2026.
