Based on the best-selling novel by Andy McNab, SAS: Red Notice stars Sam Heughan (Bloodshot), Ruby Rose (Batwoman), Andy Serkis (The Batman), Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and the Wasp), Tom Hopper (The Umbrella Academy), Noel Clarke (Star Trek Into Darkness) and two time Academy Award Nominee Tom Wilkinson (Batman Begins).
Set for release from Vertical Entertainment on March 16th, it follows Tom Buckingham, a suspended special forces operator who is taking Dr. Sophie Hart from London to Paris to propose. When their train is deep inside the Channel Tunnel, heavily armed mercenaries, led by Grace Lewis, seize control of it and hold everyone hostage.
Grace threatens to blow up the Channel Tunnel and declare economic war on a government that has its fair share of secrets to keep. Unarmed and cut off from his counter terror team, Tom is the only hope that Sophie and the other passengers have to make it out alive. To save them he must embrace the unique psychology that makes Grace such a formidable adversary.
We caught up with Rose last weekend to discuss her role as Grace in SAS: Red Notice, and she talked in detail about two standout scenes in the action-packed adventure movie.
They include an unmissable sequence which sees Rose disguising her appearance thanks to makeup and prosthetics which completely transform her (seriously, you'll never see the reveal coming). The other comes nearer the end of the movie in a brutal, hard-hitting fight scene.
Check out the full video interview below:
One scene I think a lot of people are going to be talking about is you in the disguise [on the train]. It was very Mission: Impossible-esque, and I was wondering if you could talk a bit about filming that and the makeup you had to don to so realistically hide your appearance?
That was interesting. Because we worked so closely with Andy McNab, who obviously has a lot of experience in the SAS and is also a psychopath who wrote the book ‘The Good Psychopath’ (and also the book this film is based on), he was very specific. I think, a lot of the times in films like this, you can get away with changing someone’s face, a wig, and eye colour, and say, ‘Hey, they can get through security like this and not be flagged.’ He’s very specific, of course, and he didn’t want it to be a ‘Whatever’ job. He explained that the only way to get through is that you need to change your jawline, you need to change your cheek line. Eye colour is great, skin colour is great, but he knew exactly where it will pick up what. So, you can gain weight, lose weight, put contacts in and change your hair or whatever, but it’s not going to make a difference.
Every time, he kept saying, ‘Nope, nope, if# it can open her phone, then, you know.’ So, I kept looking at my phone and it kept opening, so until we put enough of a build around the cheeks and around here, and a little bump on those nose, we redid my eyebrows up a little bit, my phone wouldn’t open, and he was okay with it. It was actually a lot. We used a lot of prosthetics, and it was so much fun in the scene where I get to just rip it all off. It was seeing myself with brown eyes and red hair!
It’s an incredible scene, and another, without spoiling anything, is your fight with [Sam Heughan's character]. What was it like to shoot that because things get very brutal, and it looks like the pair of you were getting beaten up for real there!
[Laughs] Yeah, Sam and I had a fantastic scene and that probably took three days because we didn’t have much light being in the snow. It was intense, and so freezing that it just meant when we were having to change lenses or whatever it was, cutting or regrouping, we [were in] a tiny little tent with a heater, but were still out in the snow. We’d just continuously rehearse and do stunts, then snuggle with our hot water bottles, and then go out, and it’s 'Action' again. We had a great time and really fun time, and I think because it was so cold, we didn’t really feel any of the pain of getting a little bit of an elbow here or wherever until the next day, and then we were like, ‘Ow, are you sore? I’m pretty sore!'
SAS: Red Notice is set to be released on March 16th theatrically and via premium VOD.