The King’s Man’s Gemma Arterton and Harris Dickinson on Rhys Ifans’ Incredible Job as Rasputin

With director Matthew Vaughn’s The King’s Man opening in theaters tomorrow, I recently got to speak with Gemma Arterton and Harris Dickinson about making the Kingsman prequel. During the interview, they talked about what surprised them about working with Vaughn, what it’s really like filming a Kingsman action scene, the type of training they had to do, their reaction reading the script for the first time and seeing how the prequel incorporates real history, their reaction seeing what Rhys Ifans was doing as Rasputin, crafting the Rasputin action scene (which is one of the best action scenes you’ll see this year), and more. In addition, Dickinson talks about filming the WWI No Man’s Land action scene and running with real explosions going off around him. As you’ve seen in the trailers, The King’s Man is set against the backdrop of WWI and uses real history to show how the independent intelligence agency came into existence. Loaded with the kind of action you’d expect from Matthew Vaughn, a great cast, a