Paula Patton

Film 2 Guns

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1272878/

I always wonder, when you have a scene when you're tied to a chair…

Yes.

…when they yell 'cut', do they untie you? Is it velcro?

You know, it was a little slow untying me. I got to be honest with you. I was a little bit like, "Hey, just…any day now, guys ..." (Laughs)

… Who has to untie you? Like is it the gaffer, is it the grip, is it maybe a union thing …

I don't know it's a union thing. I think that everybody was enjoying it quite a bit, you know. (Laughs). By the time one was loose I was like, "I'm getting it off myself. (Laughs).

Film Deja Vu

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453467/

Q. You also spend a fair bit of the film being tied up and beaten. Is that OK or is that something you have to get over psychologically?

Paula Patton: Well, all the physical parts in the movie were really fun for me because I’m a tomboy at heart – I really like to get physical. But you do have to get yourself into an emotional state when you are being kidnapped and tied up. But that’s really where make-up helps. The make-up artist works so long on you and then you look in the mirror and see the bruises and the blood and the burns and it actually makes you have an emotional feeling, seeing yourself like that. It all helps the performance.