"I was the stunt double for Cobie Smulders," Ky Furneaux told
Comicus when asked about her work on superhero ensemble
The Avengers.
"It was great to work for Marvel Studios again. There were a lot of the same people working on Avengers so it was kind of like coming home, back to family." As for what it was like to work alongside the
How I Met Your Mother star, Furneaux has nothing but good things to say about the experience.
"Cobie was fantastic to work for. She is such a lovely lady and very sweet and genuine. She was also very enthusiastic about doing a majority of her action, training hard to make the active part of her scenes look good. She seems like a kind of tom boy and was very coordinated and bold."
The Avengers is Smulders' first major role on the big screen and with the character of Maria Hill facing her fair share of action sequences, the actress turned to the prolific stuntwoman for advice on more than one occasion.
"Cobie did ask advice about how to make some of her action look more realistic and also asked to be trained to do some of the more active moves rather than sitting back and letting me do them for her." She added:
"I hope that Cobie makes the blooper reel because her sense of humor and comedic timing is priceless... Buy the DVD to find out what I'm referring to."
As for the likelihood of returning to double for Sif as she did in
THOR, Furneaux made it clear that she is indeed interested in returning to Asgard and revealed that she and actress Jaimie Alexander have already discussed the sequel.
"Jaimie and I have talked about Thor 2. We are in Albuquerque, New Mexico filming an action film together right now. She is the lead female in Arnold Schwarznegger's Last Stand. We are both very excited to re-visit the whole world of Thor," she revealed.
There is a lot of training to be done between now and then...I haven't really kept up with the news about who the director is. I did hear that it was a female? We talked about how interesting that will be for the character of Sif."
The whole interview can be found by clicking on the link below, and CBM's own exclusive chat with Ky Furneaux about her work on
THOR and much more is available to read
HERE.
STARRING:
Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America
Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man
Chris Hemsworth as Thor
Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye
Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Ramanoff/Black Widow
Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/Hulk
Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
Tom Hiddleston as Loki
RELEASE DATE: May 4th, 2012. (US)