MONET MAZUR: There were a few.
JAIME PRESSLY: One of our stunt girls got in a pretty bad accident. She busted her head open.
MONET MAZUR: Even Jay Hernandez fell off the bike, actually.
CHRISTINA MILIAN: And Martin [Henderson] got hurt.
MONET MAZUR: I just dropped [the motorcycle] like a dork and it kept going.
JAIME PRESSLY: Were you going to say the worst thing? The explosion?
MONET MAZUR: Yeah, the explosion.
JAIME PRESSLY: We filmed downtown in LA and the explosion was a little bigger than they thought it was going to be. It blew out all the windows.
What’s going to be different about "Torque" that'll set it apart from other biker movies?
JAIME PRESSLY: What’s really being brought to the table is Joseph Kahn. It’s his directorial debut in film. Being that he’s a video director who has won so many awards, he has really, really great vision and style. I think his style is what’s going to be so great about the film in general, because it’s visually gorgeous.
MONET MAZUR: It doesn’t give you a second to sit back...
JAIME PRESSLY: ...and think.
MONET MAZUR: It’s like being on a roller coaster.
JAIME PRESSLY: It’s definitely entertaining.
MONET MAZUR: And funny, which you don’t really expect.
JAIME PRESSLY: You don’t get that in action films, and he really kept that in there.
CHRISTINA MILIAN: He would add in lines.
Did any of you add in lines?
JAIME PRESSLY: In action movies you don’t get to adlib a whole lot because you have so many marks to hit.
MONET MAZUR: It’s always about hitting the action mark. Sometimes you’ll come up with a great one-liner like in “Terminator.”
JAIME PRESSLY: But 'one-liner' is about what you get – one line. There are no monologues in there – there might be one or two – but there’s very few because it’s action. It’s not necessarily about the acting, if we’re being honest, it’s more about the action. The way that he did it, and the cast that he had, it was kind of a given that it was going to be a good film.
MONET MAZUR: You kind of get your pick of what you want in a movie. There’s a little bit of everything.
Is it safe to assume that at least one of you is a villain?
JAIME PRESSLY: That would be me.
What was it like playing the bad girl?
JAIME PRESSLY: It was great because I got to change up the look for once. Everybody wants to keep the blonde hair and make me up like a Barbie Doll. I can’t stand that, you know? I’d rather be in flip-flops and a wife beater with my hair pulled back in a hat, quite frankly. It was great because I got to do the black hair thing and the pierced nose and the pierced lips. It’s nothing like what I’ve ever done before as far as my look was concerned, so I was really excited about it.
It’s easier to get into character when you don’t look like America Apple Pie, when they completely trash you up. I don’t mean trashy in the slutty sense, I mean trashy in the good sense. It was very sweaty for everybody.
MONET MAZUR: It was 110 degrees. We were trying to get touched up between takes and then I think all of us were like, “You know what? Stop it. Screw it. Let the dirt get in your face. Who cares?” She (Jaime Pressly) got a little air conditioning in between [takes] but my suits were one-piece that zipped up to the neck with long sleeves. I had about five because they’d take about two days to dry after a day of work.
JAIME PRESSLY: I had to go get my arms, because I have peach fuzz everywhere, I had to go get waxed - okay, that was fun (laughing) - so that they could put all the tattoos on my arms every single day. My hair wasn’t permanently dyed, it was airbrushed every day. I had to go in and it was like a three or four hour [process]. You’d have to go in 10 hours before you’d actually work just to get it all done. It was really time consuming but so worth it once you got all that on. All of a sudden, you felt like you were your character.
