We’ve just published a new AvP Requiem Interview, this time with actress Chelah Horsdal who plays the character of Darcy Benson in the movie. Here’s a little bit:
AvPGalaxy – What about the scenes that you hated filming? I mean, AvP2 was shot in Canada, the weather up there must have made for some horrible shoots?
Chelah Horsdal – It wasn’t so much the Canadian weather that was miserable…it was the film rain . We shot a great deal of this film at night under huge rain towers…far too many nights had us huddled together trying to stay warm despite being soaked through to the bone. Our wardrobe team worked especially hard to wrap us up with dry blankets & hot water bottles between takes…
Check out the full interview here. Props to Corporal Hicks for doing this one. Just a little note, the interview was actually done a few months ago but due to the powers that be, we couldn’t publish it until now. :wink:
I find most aspects of this flick discouraging. But not this. If she knows her character and her characters place in the story, then it should - in theory - help the film. Her not knowing about Alien origins and such fan fodder is entirely irrelevant to her character and performance. Sanaa Lathan didn't seem to know a great deal about the Aliens or Predators either, but it didn't hurt her performance in AvP.
The script did most of the job for her, in that regard...
Which means absolutely nothing. As far as I'm concerned some of the best acting comes FROM the support players. In fact some actors would rather BE supporting players.
What you call personal preference, I call a logical conclusion to an end...
Fair enough...I'm not saying she needs to know about DNA reflux theories and the like...but the simple premise of never discovering the alien origin is at least something that should be known on her end...and I find it discouraging that she thinks AvP gave the aliens an origin story...but to each his own...
Forgive me if I'm wrong but wouldn't most people start from the bottom and work their way upwards?
What I mean is she needs to acknowledge that showing fear from some earth creature like a lion, for example, is very different from showing fear from something she does not understand, namely otherworldly creature with fangs she has never seen before... So she needs to accomodate those emotions, because facing a lion, you would be scared, but you would show you knew what you were seeing, or that you have seen a lion before... With a Xenomorph, it's very different...The horror in this movie goes from not knowing what is being hunting them, nor what that creature is, to being face to face with it and showing terror, not horror anymore... knowing your end is near... Like Gina Holden in that Predalien scene... Them seeing Jesse get impaled to a wall, that's horror...
See the nuances an actor has to show while doing an horror movie...? They need to convey the emotions that are expected in the scenes, not look too neutral nor too detached...
hence why actors often mention how difficult it is to show terror or horror emotions while facing a tennis ball, for instance...just like Chelah said, so she has in fact acted it out with the suited guy or guys (don't know whether she was with Ian or Tom or both) not just imagined them...
So, I was adding to what you said, not counterarguing... I think... you'll be the judge of that...
Yes, because simulating fear from, say, a lion or from an Alien is somewhat different...
As for her not knowing who the actors played her husband and son, it is probably because their scene in the woods is all there was in the script, with no interaction between them and Chelah, which is not good per se, because it will feel a bit detached...It is far more involving some interaction between them and then they disappear than just seeing her afterwards and her discovering her family is all gone...
Some interaction between them would enrich her character immensely and her emotional display...
You're speaking of your own preference again. Still no actual reason given.
I don't disagree in pricipal with your stance on the matter. I just don't see the big deal in this particular instance.
And while we're on it, since when does a knowledge of what has come before have anythingthing to do with the quality of the final product? One Mr Anderson knows a lot of Alien history (but not as much as he thinks he does) and look how that turned out. Same goes for Whedon...although he didn't tinkle on established facts the way Paul did.
I thought I did here...
I don't know...call me crazy but if I was asked to be involved in a film that has a combined 28 years of history to it and I know very little about it...I would seek out and soak up every bit of information on the subject that I can to totally immerse myself in the role...that should be a given...that principle applies to any job/profession that one would invest in...I don't see the difference here...
Fair enough. I'm not sure what the topic at hand had to do with semantics, but no harm, no foul.
Not really. You've yet to explain why Chelah, or any of her co-stars need to know anything at all about A&P that they can't get from the script.
No...it's my nature...also...I feel I've made my point fairly obvious...no need for regurgitation...
Notice the emoticon immediately following the supposed charge, ergo; implying a joke or passing sarcasm...I thought it was quite clear...
Yes...tears are shedding...the people on the otherside of the computer disagree with me...what a tragedy...
Do you need background to be scared shitless of aliens? pretty sure you dont..
Don't compare starwars, completely different roles they had to play
damn you cry about everything
ahh sorry but i had to say it
I also fail to see why I'm being charged with arguing semantics.
Are you serious? Are we going to argue semantics now?
I think it's hilarious, you know, not everybody is an Alien-Pred fanboy, and they don't have to be...90% of the time actors don't know crap about the mythos of the movies they are making...it's not a big deal!!
Sigourney signed on to Aliens without reading any of the script except for her own lines...why not take her to task for that?
I don't think it's funny...it's actually pretty fu<king sad...are you people blind!? She thinks that AvP explained the origin of the aliens <-------- this makes sense how...?
I'd mostly agree with her comments. That doesn't meant to say I'm not a fan. The film did come up with an inventive and refreshing way of crossing the franchises over. It had hits and misses, in terms of how it executed those ideas, but that's something else.
It had things I wished it hadn't done, but I could say the same about some of the other films, too. Still doesn't detract me or her from being fans.
From the looks of it, neither did she.
I think it was interesting, though, that she came up with a sort of back-story for her own character. It shows she was invested in the role. Also, the film's fake production name was relased, back when they were trying to hide what production it was. 'Colorado Nights'.
yep, i stopped watching the trailers. i want it to be fresh when i'm watching in the theater. although some images are impossible to get out of my mind. like those 2 dudes getting thier heads blasted off in that store by the wolf.