"You know what's funny? You don't really look at it yourself that often but my butt, it got bigger but in a good way," she says of the most unexpected benefit of her hard work. "You don't really look over your shoulder that often and my friends were like, 'Girl, have you seen your butt lately?'" she recalls with a laugh. "So I think if it was anything it was that, my butt got bigger and it changed, so that was fun. It was the thing I certainly didn't need to have in the movie but I kind of liked it. You're not thinking about it. Once we got past the training and the endurance and it became stunts, you're not really thinking about it at that point, so it was a bit of a surprise."
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Patton says she was initially nervous about bringing Garona – a half-human, half-Orc based on the popular game World of Warcraft – to life.
"How I was going to do that?" Patton recalls. "Being able to physically do some of the things that Garona did, it whipped me into a warrior in my mind, thinking that I could be a warrior, that I could be that fierce. It was the most challenging, but one of the greatest gifts of the movie that I'm so thankful for."