{"id":548582,"date":"2026-03-27T14:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/548582\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:17:14","slug":"the-cutting-edge-behind-the-scenes-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/548582\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cutting Edge Behind the Scenes Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though while the 64-year-old New York native did master the art of utilizing the jagged edge of his figure skates&#8217; front blade, spending some three months training, neither he nor his costar actually nailed their championship-winning Pamchenko.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The way it&#8217;s designed, I throw her, and then I stand still, and I catch her,&#8221; he detailed to <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/article\/2014\/02\/07\/the-cutting-edge-db-sweeney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a> in 2014. &#8220;And you can only do that if she&#8217;s Supergirl and she&#8217;s going to fly back to me. So it doesn&#8217;t make any sense at all.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While professional figure skaters Sharon Carz and John Denton\u00a0were brought in as body doubles, a great deal of movie magic was necessary to create the move.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I was spinning her around, it wasn&#8217;t actually Moira\u2014it was a mannequin,&#8221; Sweeney noted. &#8220;That worked out pretty well, except the wig kept flying off the mannequin. So you start thinking about things like, &#8216;How can I help the wig stay on the mannequin?&#8217; instead of worrying about the impossibility of the trick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there&#8217;s two things he does well, sweetheart, and skating&#8217;s the other one. So, lace up those metaphorical skates because we&#8217;ve hardly skimmed the surface of the film&#8217;s behind-the-scenes secrets.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though while the 64-year-old New York native did master the art of utilizing the jagged edge of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-548582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}