This month in Total Film’s ‘All American’ issue…

Captain America’s Hayley Atwell: “I had a bullet shell fired off my head” – Plus red, white and blue pictures, exclusive to Total Film!

When Total Film met Captain America’s leading lady Hayley Atwell to discuss playing English freedom fighter Peggy Carter, she admitted there were some shaky moments during filming.

“I had a bullet shell fired off my head when I stepped too close to [Red Skull sidekick] Richard Armitage’s gun, which was a bit dumb,” she grimaces.

Atwell also reveals how she was put through her paces with a gruelling training regime.

“Various types of detox, hard running, endless lunges… I threw up after the first day!”

The hard work certainly paid off though and Atwell proudly confesses that she performs all her own stunts in the film.

“In fact when [the stuntwoman] comes on I’m like, ‘I’m really sorry, but can you go away, otherwise it feels like a waste, all this training just to look good in a uniform!”.

Captain America: The First Avenger opens on 29 July.

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Jason Segel: “I like talking to strangers” – Forgetting Sarah Marshall star talks about staying grounded in Hollywood

Speaking to Total Film on set of his latest self-penned movie Five-Year Engagement, Jason Segel confesses that he likes talking to strangers at random LA bars.

“I’m definitely a watcher, yeah. I do like to observe people when they’re drinking because that’s when they’re at their most honest.”

Segel explains that he thinks it’s important as a writer to experience normal life, brushing off suggestion that he’s a bit of a heartthrob; the ‘thinking woman’s crumpet’.

“I guess some people like the goofy guy! I don’t think of myself like that,” he says bashfully. “I’ve tried hard not to let my life change, if that makes sense. I just bop around, doing the same stuff I usually do. I go to the pub a lot and am still friends with friends from high school. More than anything, it’s really important as a writer, because if you stop experiencing normal life you really feel it in the scripts”.

Total Film’s top cheerleader crowned!

To celebrate all things American, Total Film have picked their favourite movie cheerleaders with American Beauty’s Angela Hayes (played by Mena Suvari) coming out on top of the cheer pyramid.

Other cheerleaders to feature in the top 10 were Megan Fox’s Jennifer Check in Jennifer’s Body and Bring It On’s Torrance Shipman played by Cannes Film Festival’s Best Actress, Kirsten Dunst.

The list in full:

Angela Hayes played by Mena Suvari

American Beauty (1999)

Kelly Van Ryan played by Denise Richards

Wild Things (1998)

Buffy Summers played by Kristy Swanson

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

Jennifer Check played by Megan Fox

Jennifer’s Body (2009)

Diane Weston played by Marley Shelton

Sugar & Spice (2001)

Torrance Shipman played by Kirsten Dunst

Bring It On (2000)

Max Fischer played by Jason Schwartzman

Rushmore (1998)

Lee Montgomery played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Death Proof (2007)

Edit Stall played by Maria Bello

A History of Violence (2005)

Granny voiced by June Foray

Space Jam (1996)