How ‘Heart of Stone’ Director Captured Gal Gadot’s Big Opening Stunt During a Blizzard

“Before we started shooting it was blowing a blizzard. It was terrifying actually. It was like the apocalypse,” Tom Harper tells TheWrap

"Heart of Stone"
"Heart of Stone" (Robert Viglasky/Netflix)

Director Tom Harper’s feature films have seen him tackle all manner of unique environments, from the upper stratosphere in “The Aeronauts” to his latest venture, Netflix’s “Heart of Stone,” which sees Gal Gadot’s character, Rachel Stone, go from mountains to desert.

As Gadot told TheWrap, in an interview conducted before the SAG-AFTRA strike, she’d “never eaten that much sand” in her life while making the movie. But to talk to Harper, he found a different element of the production challenging. For him, it was the film’s big opening set piece, wherein Gadot’s double agent, Rachel Stone, has to zipline down a mountain.

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