JAY ELLIS HAS the biggest smile on his face.
This isn’t the smile of his Insecure character, Lawrence Walker, after accidentally charming his way into a threesome. This is the smile of a man who has spent hours in a jet, flying so fast the pull of gravity increased his bodyweight sevenfold while he delivered lines as fighter pilot Payback, his first role in an action film.
“As hard as it was, [Jay] had a great time and appreciated every moment,” says director Joseph Kosinski. Filming was so physically demanding that it left some of Ellis’s costars puking and Kosinski proclaiming,
