X-Men: Dark Phoenix
Dark Phoenixis many things , but at its core it ’s the write up of Sophie Turner ’s Jean Grey , who gains immense mogul that alienate her from the tenner - man and those cheeseparing to her - and right towards Jessica Chastain ’s deep foreign mien . The two actors spend much of the movie together , where the independent power bid stretch .
Screen Rantrecently sit down with theDark Phoenixstars to hash out developing their characters and act with author - director Simon Kinberg .
This is obviously one of the big , if not the biggest , 10 - Men floor in the comics . Did you guy rope go back and read The Dark Phoenix Saga in preparation and pull from that ?
Sophie Turner : Well . I ’d read it eld ago and then I understand it again when I got Revelation of Saint John the Divine and then , no .
Jessica Chastain : Yeah , for me , my role does n’t come along in it , so there was n’t any common sense of me going and finding seed material that did n’t include my part in terms of research .
Jessica , your character is a very isolated comic case that pull from various different threads . For that , did you list more on what Simon has write for the book rather than the comic , then ?
JC : Absolutely . And then also , a great deal of Google searches about , you know , different alien species in that world .
Sophie , you mentionedApocalypse . When you sign on for that , was this always part of the pitch ? Did you bang you ’d get to do the good stuff ?
ST : No , not at all . I never knew . You live , they had The Last Stand and so I just kind of assumed that it was done and over with . But I was really excited when they told me because in The Last Stand , the Dark Phoenix plot line was a subplot and in this it ’s the main secret plan and it being one of the most loved amusing Book in the X - Men world , it definitely felt right to do it again . I was so emotional .
And what ’s so exciting about this one is that Simon is writing and directing . So you have a very driven management which you do n’t always get on movies of this scale . How was that for both of you operate with him and being able to influence this key family relationship in the taradiddle ?
JC : It ’s great . I mean , I love wreak with writer - directors because you could have a conversation and something comes from that and then the next dawning , Simon would show up to work and say , " hey , I wrote some Sir Frederick Handley Page that I conceive could be interesting for this direction we ’re going . " So I love that kind of , you
hump , that fluid way of working .
ST : Yeah , it ’s just like you ’re perpetually evolving . The script is constantly evolving and being chopped and changed in whatever way kind of way we liked , and that was amazing . He ’s so collaborative , that was something that is often quite rarefied in directors , and he was great .
Could you lucubrate a bit on that ? In term of the collaborationism , what were you capable to insert to the character reference that perhaps was n’t in the script ? Both of them , of course .
ST : It was believably just little thing , you know . Like , Simon and I would sit down down for two hour every day and just ransack through each page of the handwriting . And then , if I felt like , " oh , Scott and Jean require to have a second here because this fall out by and by on and it would make sense , " he would be like , " yeah , no problem . " And he ’d rewrite it . I intend , there was rewrite being done all the fourth dimension .
JC : For me , I stand for , the aspect of the character was something that I bring to Simon and we worked together to hone in . And then thing about the clinical nature of her , this idea that she would n’t be very worked up because when I read the script I was like , it ’s a very worked up hand , so I call up it ’s nice to have a character who sees that as weakness and is apply another variety of performance for that to go off of .
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