Battle Room Insight

Ender Wiggin star, Asa Butterfield, spoke to reporters this week about his training for the ‘Ender’s Game’ movie. In it, he tells us about his favorite battle room stunt and why you wouldn’t want to wear a flash suit for more than an hour. Read below.

During their training, Ender and his unit take on a lot of other teams in the Battle Room. Any stunts you’re particularly proud of pulling off?

There’s a really cool sequence where I’m sort of spinning over backwards and I let go of my guns. They’re floating by my side just going along. As I push myself through these two stars, I spin back over and grab the guns, then shoot the people around me. I loved doing that.

What did your Battle Room costume involve?

It’s called a flash suit. It looks incredible, but wearing it was pretty uncomfortable, because they were tight and thick and didn’t give you all that much movement. It’s like wearing three wetsuits and then putting on body armour over that. We had a few versions: a normal one, and then a slightly bigger one which let you wear a harness underneath. You wouldn’t want to wear one for more than an hour.

Read the full interview at Empire.

The ‘Ender’s Game’ movie will be released in U.S. theaters on November 1, 2013.