Day Shift Director Breaks Down How He Filmed the Cool Opening Fight Scene with Jamie Foxx

With Day Shift now streaming on Netflix, I recently spoke to director J. J. Perry about making his feature debut after decades in the business being a second unit director and stunt coordinator. During the interview, he talked about what appealed to him about the material, how he filmed the great opening fight scene between Jamie Foxx and the elderly vampire, what he learned working on Paul Feigs Spy that helped him on Day Shift, the challenge of making the film in fortytwo shooting days, and why he always films with multiple cameras. In addition, he revealed what he learned working as a stunt coordinator and 2nd unit director that helped him direct. In Day Shift, Foxx plays a hardworking dad that works as a pool cleaner. But what his family doesnt know is the pool cleaning job is a front for his real source of income hunting and killing vampires. Dave Franco plays an employee at the vampire hunter union, which pays hunters for killing vampires and selling their fangs. When the two are teamed up