While we have seen Katrina doing a fair bit of stunts and aerial activities in Ek Tha Tiger, Dhoom 3 and Bang Bang, director Kabir Khan believes that she has pushed the boundaries, taking the action a notch higher in Phantom.
“I don’t want to sound pompous but I do believe that this (Phantom) will be Katrina’s finest performance so far. Her character is real, raw and so are the action scenes. They are not over-the-top, which is why they are more difficult to execute. There’s an underwater sequence here, where she had to be about 40 feet below water, which was riskier than the kind of stunts she did in Ek Tha Tiger. It was commendable. I was under the water myself shooting that scene. That way my actors get that sense of confidence.”
He added, “I try and avoid using body doubles as you can’t show the face then. We’ve shot a scene near the actual border of Syria, there were real guns around but she held on her own.”