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Dichen Lachman, who plays Rei, talked to Entertainment Weekly in detail about how she pulled off her daring nude fight sequence. "I was driving back from (fight) training and one of the producers called me and very delicately told me there was going to be a naked sword fight. I remember leaning forward in shock and going 'Oh!' I didn't know about it prior to signing on. And of course, they were asking me if I was comfortable with it. They weren't telling me to do it. They were asking if I was comfortable doing it because this is how the story is unfolding and this is a really great moment. Initially, when someone asks you to be completely naked, your insecurities come to the surface; every little thing you don't like about yourself. I'm sure even people who have incredible, enviable bodies are insecure about them in some way. That's the first thing that went through my mind. Then they sent me the script and I was still nervous, but I also started to get excited. Because as a woman, and maybe this is one of the problems in our society, I assumed if I was ever going to be naked on screen it would be in a different way, like in a sex scene, or being manipulated. But in this scene, Reileen was fighting. And she was fighting another woman, and that got me excited too. I talked to my family and thought about it and started feeling empowered by the opportunity. I started training harder and pushing myself. By the time we got to do it I'd been training about four or five months and felt confident. I still had insecurities but the character helped me move through that because Reileen doesn't have any insecurity in that sense." She said it took a long time to film because It was a very complicated scene. "When you're walking around naked for four days, it gets a bit tiring. We first had to find eight girls who looked like me physically. They'd come in and we'd discuss if they felt comfortable with the idea, and all the men would have to leave the room. I had to stand next to them and [female crew members] would decide if we were the right shape, if our skin tones matched, and that sort of thing." She added it was bizarre but "it was a wonderful bonding experience as well. They also had to find two stunt doubles who were willing to do the scene naked and that was exceptionally hard. Stuntwomen have it tough because you normally can't put as many pads on a woman due to the way their characters tend to be dressed. And when you're naked you can't put on any padding, so if you don't fall correctly, you can seriously injure yourself. Stuntwomen are tough but also modest, and this is a big leap for them. It was difficult to find a girl who was proficient with a sword, who was willing to do the scene naked and had a similar body type to me. Even though I do the majority of the fight, they couldn't have me jumping out of the glass pods because it's not safe, and a liability. There was also a flip that the stunt girls had to do. And this is funny: We also had to design the merkin, a wig for 'down there.' We had to decide how it looked and how much I needed to feel comfortable. I discussed the design with the stunt girls too because I didn't want to be the only person who was comfortable with it. There was a lot of people who had to be naked and in all sorts of positions and doing different things. One of the best wigmakers in the business made the merkin, and I remember first seeing it and it was just ridiculously long. I spent an hour and a half in the trailer with the makeup girls trying to shape and trim it so it wouldn't be distracting. Otherwise, I would look like I was wearing a small animal. It was like something from the '70s! I wanted to do a rehearsal of the scene first and be naked [on that set] in front of a couple people I trusted. That way, on the day we starting shooting I had already done it, I had already gotten the nudity out of the way. So I was standing there naked and combing at [the merkin] with my fingers and telling everyone we had to do something about this because it was distracting. So on the actual day, it was fine. It wasn't fine-fine, but some of my nerves had washed away and were replaced by: How are we going to do this in the time that we have to do it?.... And yet I felt so grateful I got to do this and the people around me couldn't be more supportive. Once I did it, and I didn't think this would happen, I felt like I could do anything, like I was really powerful. That was really a gift."

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