Though while the 64-year-old New York native did master the art of utilizing the jagged edge of his figure skates’ front blade, spending some three months training, neither he nor his costar actually nailed their championship-winning Pamchenko. 

“The way it’s designed, I throw her, and then I stand still, and I catch her,” he detailed to Entertainment Weekly in 2014. “And you can only do that if she’s Supergirl and she’s going to fly back to me. So it doesn’t make any sense at all.” 

While professional figure skaters Sharon Carz and John Denton were brought in as body doubles, a great deal of movie magic was necessary to create the move. 

“When I was spinning her around, it wasn’t actually Moira—it was a mannequin,” Sweeney noted. “That worked out pretty well, except the wig kept flying off the mannequin. So you start thinking about things like, ‘How can I help the wig stay on the mannequin?’ instead of worrying about the impossibility of the trick.”

Of course, there’s two things he does well, sweetheart, and skating’s the other one. So, lace up those metaphorical skates because we’ve hardly skimmed the surface of the film’s behind-the-scenes secrets.