If Mary had the walk then Alice had the terrifying stare. “Because I’m usually so smiley, I wanted to try to differentiate Alice from myself, and the stare was me getting into her cutthroat and steely mindset,” explains Shaw. “It was actually scary,” adds Doherty.

Mary’s determination, Eliza’s loyalty and Alice’s confidence form a larger complex group of women – a sisterhood of sorts – that all have their own complicated, often detrimental, relationships with each other. And it’s those intricate power dynamics that really flesh out the characters and help move the story along.

“You’ve got to fall in love with each other, and we genuinely did as a larger show collective but also as the Elephants. It’s the easiest thing to play that you hate someone when you love them and have investment in each other as people. You can’t get those nuances unless you have that sense of security, safety and love. We had it in abundance, and it was beautiful,” says Doherty. It’s clear that the Elephants care for each other off screen, and that’s further cemented when Walters signs off the chat with a “Love you girls!”

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The cast of Disney+’s A Thousand Blows chats on the real-life all-female gang that inspired the “Forty Elephants”