If there's one thing Sofia Boutella knows how to do it's be badass on screen. She and Ed Skrein chat to Melissa Nathoo about what it takes to be a character in Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon. Report by Nathoom. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 I love Ed when you just speak in your regular voice. I'm so happy to hear you.
00:04 I love it.
00:05 I don't think it would have been right for me to speak like this.
00:09 No, probably not.
00:10 But I love it. I genuinely love just hearing you with your London accent.
00:13 Anyway, guys, such strong characters from the two of you.
00:17 Ed, you are great, but Sofia, I could not take my eyes off you.
00:22 Please tell me how I can be you when I grow up.
00:25 You are. It's inside of you.
00:27 The surprise is in every single woman.
00:30 And start training martial arts today.
00:32 And that.
00:33 You may have missed the boat on that one.
00:35 And get a cape. That's a great start.
00:38 And a waist centre.
00:40 And a troubled past.
00:42 And a bum.
00:44 Childhood trauma.
00:46 And you might shave your head.
00:49 Great.
00:50 And get Zack Snyder to shoot you.
00:52 And a field of wheat.
00:54 Exactly. And then you're done.
00:55 One or two spaceships and you're good.
00:57 That's everything I needed from this interview.
00:59 It's just life tips.
01:00 Well, nice to meet you.
01:01 Yeah.
01:02 Ed, for you, is it good to be bad?
01:05 You have nailed this now, right?
01:08 Like it's becoming your thing.
01:09 I think people can see how much fun I have doing it.
01:12 I think you can feel, even when I'm not smiling on camera, how fun it is.
01:19 I don't know, man.
01:20 I always compare it to the duality of real life.
01:24 It's like, I'm a father of three.
01:27 I'm a good dude. I'm a peaceful dude.
01:29 I'm a hugger.
01:30 I'm like a super glue dude that likes to bring people together and keep things nice.
01:35 Super glue dude.
01:36 But it's a super glue dude.
01:37 Yeah.
01:38 Yeah.
01:39 Super glue dude.
01:41 But, you know, we've all got dark sides.
01:46 And to me it really is kind of like that Jungian shadow work.
01:50 Without getting too pretentious.
01:52 To explore a character like Atticus Noble and his lack of humanity
01:57 and how it's so different for me as a person and my moral structure.
02:03 But I do feel like all of us really have that possibility inside of us
02:08 and can somehow relate.
02:11 Maybe that just makes me messed up.
02:13 No.
02:14 But it is a kind of--it is Jungian work.
02:19 It's to explore the dark side so that I can be a teddy bear in real life.
02:23 Love that. Love that.
02:25 I'm glad also that your hair's growing out.
02:27 Yeah.
02:28 I imagine they did actually do that to your hair, didn't they?
02:30 I'm disappointed you haven't got the high fade in there and the fringe.
02:33 Can you imagine?
02:34 It's pretty nuts, huh?
02:36 It's a pretty nuts haircut.
02:37 Yeah.
02:38 Yeah, it was wild living with that for seven months
02:40 and then even coming home and waiting for it to grow out.
02:43 It was funny.
02:44 It was so nice when I first saw him when we first started doing the press
02:47 because he was so pale.
02:49 And I saw Ed pale for 153 days.
02:53 Yeah.
02:54 And it's so nice to see you with your colours back.
02:56 Yeah, I know.
02:57 It's so nice.
02:58 The first thing was Sofia went, "Oh my gosh, you've got hair!"
03:01 And then Zach went, "Oh my God, you're human again!"
03:03 Yeah, you don't look that human to me.
03:05 No, I wasn't. I don't even recognise that gore and scary person.
03:10 Sofia, was it--I mean, you are peak physical fitness, I imagine, anyway.
03:15 Everything I've seen you in, you blow me away, I have to be honest.
03:20 But keeping it up for this amount of time,
03:23 the level which I imagine you needed for this film,
03:26 what is that like?
03:27 What toll does that take on your body?
03:29 I think I'm lucky to be able to fall back on my training as a dancer
03:35 and the discipline that it gave me.
03:37 And once I apply that same discipline for anything I do,
03:40 in particular for a movie like that,
03:42 it is really what's helpful, I think, just keeping laser focus
03:46 and having the plan, having a plan of what you're doing
03:49 and knowing your character sort of indicates where your body
03:52 and your mind needs to go so that you can sustain the amount of time.
03:56 Conditioning is really important.
03:58 Mental conditioning so that your body can go there is very important.
04:02 And yeah, I think I was doing a lot of Pilates.
04:06 We were training with Alessandro, who was training us a lot,
04:09 who was Zach's trainer.
04:11 We had a specific diet.
04:13 I think that, to me, it's all conditioning in preparation.
04:16 You prepare a lot of the time.
04:18 It's not just rehearsing the choreography.
04:20 It's preparing your body so that anything is being thrown at you
04:23 you can sustain.
04:25 And to have the stamina to bloody fight for 12 hours a day,
04:29 six days in a row like we did.
04:31 Wow, I really did just come in here and try to learn how to be you.
04:36 Now you know.
04:37 Now I know.
04:38 When we see you for part two, you're going to have the noble haircut,
04:41 the Cora hood.
04:43 The whole-- every character.
04:45 Just to mix it up.
04:46 Mix it.
04:47 Jimmy's horns.
04:48 Good luck with part one, guys.
04:50 And I will see you for part two, I hope.
04:52 I look forward to it.