Poor Things co-stars Willem Dafoe and Mark Ruffalo have a laugh acting like puppets during their chat with Melissa Nathoo. 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'll do the voice and you do the...
00:02 I'll do the arms.
00:04 Yeah, that's a puppet.
00:06 That was one of our theatre games we had to do.
00:08 We had to act out the other person.
00:10 Let's try it.
00:12 My name is Mark Ruffalo.
00:17 Prose.
00:18 Rhymes with Uffalo.
00:20 Great, we can do my whole interview like this.
00:24 It would be wonderful.
00:25 Guys, this film is insane in the best possible way.
00:29 I love your Losses films anyway.
00:32 So this might be one of my favourites to date.
00:35 Willem, who had the best reaction to seeing you made up for the first time?
00:40 Because I have to be honest, the first time I saw it I was quite shocked.
00:43 And then everything else that he has going on as well.
00:47 I was the first one to say it because I'm sitting in a mirror for four hours
00:51 watching this stuff get applied.
00:56 They went through a big process to arrive at that make-up.
01:01 It's a beautiful make-up.
01:02 There's a transformation quite literal and that really helps you with the pretending.
01:06 Mark, did you enjoy hamming up the British accent for this role?
01:10 Because honestly, I forget that you were American when you're...
01:13 Hot damn.
01:18 Yeah, I did. I really did.
01:21 It's such a particular...
01:24 I just started a daydream about the sound that he'd have.
01:29 It's so particular.
01:31 Terry Thomas, who's a famous English cad,
01:36 was one of my inspirations for it.
01:39 It was so much fun to do and so weird at times.
01:46 Sometimes I even wonder, maybe Duncan Wedderburn isn't really English
01:50 and his accent is just affecting an English accent.
01:54 He's just totally foolish.
01:56 It could be. But very well done.
01:59 I particularly liked a lot of God's creations that were wandering around the house.
02:06 Did you guys have any particular favourites?
02:09 You know, that's done in post.
02:12 No, you mean we didn't actually create them?
02:16 We had one element.
02:19 Yeah, we had the duck.
02:21 We had the chicken, but not the bulldog head.
02:25 And we had the goat, but not the goose head.
02:28 Mark, I know that you have said that the sex scenes were not your favourite.
02:32 So what was your favourite in it?
02:35 What was the bit that you really enjoyed the most?
02:38 Probably the dance. It just encompasses the whole relationship.
02:43 That whole sequence, the dance, the fight.
02:47 The immediate smash cut to them having sex.
02:50 That whole sequence was just delicious.
02:54 And the dance is funny. It has the relationship in it.
02:59 Their struggle with each other, dominating and refusing to be dominated.
03:07 How about for you, Willem? What was your particular favourite?
03:10 I'm tough with favourites. Everything's my favourite.
03:13 I'm that kind of guy.
03:15 The whole movie is like your baby.
03:17 Doing the practical stuff, the cutting and being in the lab is cool.
03:24 But I also like very much the end scenes with Emma,
03:28 just because everything leads to that.
03:31 So even though they aren't worked terribly and they're quite brief,
03:36 I find them really touching.
03:38 And even as I was doing them, I found them kind of moving.
03:41 I couldn't watch a lot of those surgery scenes, however.
03:43 I did look away, because even though I know they're fake, they...
03:46 She stares.
03:48 Again, we should not give any spoilers away.
03:51 My goodness, there's so much here that was just incredible to watch.
03:56 Incredible. Congratulations, guys. Good luck with it.
03:59 Thank you.
04:00 Thank you so much.