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TIL the only actor who wasn’t physically wiped out from filming in the demanding Jaeger cockpit harnesses in “Pacific Rim” was Rinko Kikuchi, the female Jaeger pilot. Director Guillermo del Toro asked for her secret and she replied “I think of gummi bears and flowers.”

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