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The fate of one high-rise swimmer doesn\u2019t look good in this scene from the spy thriller \u201cThe Amateur,\u201d in which Rami Malek plays Charlie Heller, a C.I.A. cryptographer out to avenge his wife\u2019s death. But more than guns and fists, he\u2019s using intelligence and craftiness to get the job done.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Here, Charlie encounters one of his targets, Mishka Blazhic (Marc Rissmann), who has been given solo access to a hotel pool for a night swim. Interrogating Mishka, Charlie informs him that he is holding the remote control to a device that is decompressing the air between the sheets of glass at the base of the pool. If he triggers the device, the glass will shatter.<\/p>\n
Narrating the sequence, the director James Hawes said that there were few locations in the world with pools that sit between two buildings.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were lucky enough to find a location in London that gave us that,\u201d he said, \u201cbut they weren\u2019t going to let us blow it up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hawes said that he and his crew used it to shoot a portion of the scene, but then they built a life-size section of the pool in a studio, which allowed them to fill the pool with water and explode it. They even rigged up a stunt person to be sucked back as the bottom gave way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n