Drew Chats to G.I Joe’s Rachel Nichols
Posted on July 29, 2009Filed under: Articles, G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra (2009)
Busier than a hooker on Valentine’s Day last week, I assigned Drew Turney the (not-so-difficult) task of talking to the lovely Rachel Nichols for me. Nichols, who you’ll know from TV-ville (“Alias”, “The Inside”) was in Sydney to promote the comic-book inspired “G.I Joe” – and in this one-on-one chat with Moviehole’s Drew, you’ll get the full low-down on it. Enjoy the chat…
Drew here, Is she just another hot babe clad in black leather in a tentpole toy movie or something more? After some ‘I know her, she’s that girl’ roles in everything from teen chick flicks (Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2) to sci-fi (Alias, Star Trek), I ask just who Rachel Nichols just who she thinks she is…
Drew: How hands on were you in the production?
Rachel: Very much so. Stephen [Sommers, director] loves to put the actors in the stunts and scenes as much as possible and I did everything they’d allow me to. It was really hard work but all of us got along so well that it didn’t feel as hard as it was and we had a really good time.
Drew: There were obviously a lot of digital effects in the film, so how many stunts could there possibly have been for you to take part in?
Rachel: You’re right there was a fair amount that had to be CGI but people don’t realize how much was actually real. The sequence where there are cars and hummers flying through the air? We actually did that. I think we set some sort of record for launching the most cars into the air for any movie. There were a lot of real explosions and there was a lot of real water, believe or not.





