Warning: This article contains spoilers fromThe Union.
Mark WahlbergandHalle Berry’s new action-comedyThe Unionfinishes with a bang.
“We had such a cool time with the big set pieces.
Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg in ‘The Union’.Courtesy of Netflix
The winding roads, the dirt roads, the paved roads.
How did you balance all of that?
By this stage of the story, they’re functioning quite well together.
Halle Berry in ‘The Union’.Christopher Barr/Netflix
Halle, how does Roxanne’s reunion with Mike change her?
MARK WAHLBERG: Mike was willing to do anything.
He was an open book, completely open, and she has a tough exterior.
Mike Colter and Jessica De Gouw in ‘The Union’.Courtesy of Netflix
He had a lot of chipping away to do.
Speaking of Mike’s journey to trained operative, he has that fight scene on the rooftop.
WAHLBERG:Oh, I didn’t like it all.
I never really was bothered by heights.
I don’t know, I felt a little queasy.
All the jumping, running, and all that stuff, but we certainly had fun.
I wanted to feel them coming together and having each other’s backs.
Christopher Barr/Netflix
The car chase as Mike and Roxanne hunt Nick is also a long and complicated sequence.
How did you all pull that off?
It took a few weeks to shoot, so the car chase is very painstaking.
The amount of angles and the amount of coverage you need and all of that.
COLTER:There’s such cool technology now.
I had such a great time doing that.
I was like a kid in a candy store.
They experienced the twists and turns and danger for real.
BERRY:For me, it was just fun to drive at those speeds.
Wahlberg: We want to take a stab at infuse as much comedy as possible along the way.
That humor is something I could relate to and I know Halle could as well.
I’m old, cramped and a grumpy old man.
Berry: Doing it with Mark.
I mean nobody does it better.
I’ve seen Daddy’s home so many freaking times.
That’s his thing.
Mark is going to make you laugh.
He’s so relatable.
I got to really learn from watching how effortlessly and seamlessly this stuff just falls out of his mouth.
The sequence ends with Roxanne taking down her husband.
What made Mike Colter the right choice to play their adversary?
What was shooting Nick’s death scene like?
COLTER:He sort of made his bed.
Are you going to stop me?”
BERRY:When we dropped him in the river?
I was over him by that point.
The Unionis out now on Netflix.
