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For the action, we did a two-week workshop with a Kalaripayattu troupe from Kerala and a Thang-Ta troupe from Manipur — both of which represent very diverse martial art forms. We put them together on a mountaintop for two weeks and made them fight each other. What we got were results that I wouldn't even hope to achieve if I was using live-action actors.
- ↑ Kondo, Nick [@NickTyson] (5 June 2023). "One of the great creative challenges for #AcrossTheSpiderVerse was giving 100s of different Spiders unique motion signatures" (Tweet). Retrieved 5 June 2023– via Twitter.
For Pavitr, we looked to one of the oldest known martial arts, Kalaripayattu(.)
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