Why The Princess Is Joey King's Most Challenging Role Yet

Hi Jolie. Hi Jolie. How are you?

Good.

You are a princess.

I am.

Everyone was commenting and everyone's like, oh my gosh, she has an action role. So when you first found out that you got the part, how did you feel about the action role?

Well, I actually was approached by our two producer, two of our producers on the movie, Neil Moritz and Toby Jaffy. They had this script and they presented it to me and they were like, do you want to do this? And I was like, me? Um, I was so honored that they approached me with this role and then from there we started to build out the world. We we didn't have a director yet, we didn't have a studio, we had nothing. And so we kind of just took this project and ran with it. And the fact that it's coming out on Hulu like like less than a month, I'm just like time flies. I'm so excited and and making this movie was like the most challenging thing I think I've ever done.

How many of the stunts did you end up doing or how much did you have to learn to do?

So, I I had no prior stunt training at all. Like I had no prior fight training, sword fighting training. Um so I really started from zero and then just went on from there. But I worked really, really hard and I was surrounded by people who were incredible trainers who lifted me up so much, the entire stunt team, my stunt doubles, everyone supported me so much to the point where like I was able to do 85 to 90% of what you see uh in the movie now. So I really did most of my own work, um and I'm so proud of that.

That is crazy. Like the trailer is insane and you're like, oh God, what's the whole actual movie going to be like if this is just the trailer.

It's going to be uh I think it's going to exceed everyone's expectations, I hope because it is a wild one.

If you are a princess in real life, what do you think is one rule that you'd have?

I think every princess should go through some sword fighting training because you know, you can't rely on a man to defend your kingdom for you, so

Love it. And in the movie, you have one line that says I'm used to people underestimating me. So what is one thing that people underestimate about you in real life?

A lot. I think that especially like I I'm so proud of this movie too especially because I don't know if anybody really expected me to do something like this and I don't know if anybody thought I could do something like this, including myself. I think that people think of you as a certain way when you become uh popular as one character or as another character and so I'm excited to show people um the different kinds of uh genres that I'm willing to take on, the different kinds of uh skills that I learned for this and so uh I didn't know I could lead an action movie and I bet I bet everyone else didn't know that either. So

And if you were locked in a tower all day, what do you think you would do to pass time?

I would hope I'd have some games or at least some puzzles with me. I would probably build one of my uh one of my favorite things is to build miniature dioramas. So I'd probably bring a little kit to build one of those. I made like over New Year's, I made myself a little like Japanese book nook. So like in the middle of my bookshelf, there's like a little alleyway that looks like Japan, so I would probably make one of those.

That is so cute. Well, congrats, everyone's very, very excited about the action role and you look incredible in it, so.

Thank you, Jolie. It's nice to see you.

You too. See you later.