'Chaos Walking' Interview With Daisy Ridley
"Chaos Walking" actress Daisy Ridley discusses her upcoming film, in which she co-stars with Tom Holland, in this interview with CinemaBlend's Sarah El-Mahmoud. Ridley explains how her performance was affected by having to play to other characters' thoughts, why she likes doing additional photography and more.
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00:00 I get so much CinemaBlend on my newsfeed.
00:03 I'm like constantly reading CinemaBlend.
00:05 Yeah, I'm really in the know about what's going on in films.
00:08 - Whoa! - Stop! Don't come any closer!
00:11 - It's a girl. - Girl!
00:13 - Oh my gosh, girl. I'm sorry. - No, Louis.
00:16 - I've just never seen a girl before.
00:18 - Who are you?
00:21 - I want to start with this really cool concept you get to work with,
00:26 which is interacting not only with a performance,
00:29 but their thoughts at the same time.
00:31 I was wondering what the kind of challenges were on set
00:34 with working with that concept of the noise.
00:37 - I mean, a sort of initial, and it sounds so silly,
00:40 but it was a bit of a challenge,
00:42 is I always had to remember to be giving my eye line differently,
00:45 because obviously there always had to be room for the noise,
00:48 because we knew it was going to come in visual effects.
00:50 But I was also contending with Doug shouting the noise.
00:53 So me and Tom would be doing a scene,
00:55 and Doug would be shouting, "Dog! Dog!"
00:58 But random stuff throughout the whole scene.
01:00 So I became weirdly okay with, you know, during a scene,
01:04 everyone's like, "Everyone be quiet, everyone be quiet."
01:06 But not this.
01:08 So I became very okay with talking to another actor
01:11 while our director shouted things at us.
01:13 - I'm tired. Maybe I should have turned back.
01:15 Crack!
01:16 - There's such an interesting, I think, discourse around reshoots,
01:19 where I've also heard that it's kind of just a norm
01:22 in big-budget movies for reshoots to happen.
01:25 So I was just wondering for you,
01:27 what's something that you've learned about reshoots
01:30 that we may not realise from the outside looking in?
01:33 - I think, to be honest, to be able to do additional photography,
01:36 you're already in a really lucky space,
01:39 because basically there's the budget to do it.
01:41 I'm sure that there are films where they were like,
01:43 "Oh, it would be great if we had another day,"
01:45 and sometimes the budget is just restricted.
01:47 I've done additional photography on all the Star Wars films,
01:51 and on this.
01:52 So for me, it's like, it just is what it is.
01:55 And I think there's a really amazing way
02:00 to take a step back in between times
02:03 and give you a little bit of perspective.
02:05 And also, a lot of the time, people have seen an edit,
02:08 and they're like, "Oh, you know what would really help this?"
02:10 So it ends up being really helpful,
02:12 because you can add things that might help a relationship.
02:15 So we did mine and Todd, the kiss scene,
02:18 that was in additional photography,
02:20 and it's such a sweet moment,
02:22 and really shows them bridging the understanding of the noise,
02:28 and Fiola's like, "I can deal with this,
02:30 and we can go off on this adventure together."
02:32 So I think it usually is really helpful, yeah.
02:36 It's strange to see everything you're thinking.
02:38 It was strange for me too, not knowing what's going on in your head.
02:41 I mean, I don't know, you might not like my dog,
02:43 or you want to hit me over the head with a rock or something.
02:45 I like your dog.
02:47 I think it's really cool that you and Tom Holland
02:50 kind of came up around the same time with Marvel and Star Wars,
02:53 and then got to kind of pause and be on a,
02:57 for a few months on Chaos walking together.
02:59 I was wondering how that experience maybe allowed you both
03:02 to kind of check in with each other,
03:04 and take stock of your fame that was happening at the time.
03:07 I genuinely think Tom has a way different time than me.
03:12 I was part of a group of wonderful people,
03:14 and I always felt part of a group.
03:16 And, you know, Star Wars is its own thing.
03:19 It has a life of its own.
03:21 And I was always with Jon and Oscar and Adam.
03:24 It was always a group thing.
03:26 I think Tom plays Spider-Man in Spider-Man.
03:30 It's mega.
03:32 It's not to, like, I know I've had a mega opportunity,
03:35 and it's amazing.
03:36 But in terms of that, it's so different.
03:40 He is literally the face of Spider-Man.
03:44 Which I'm like, that is intense.
03:47 But he deals with it very well, very well.
03:50 And he gets, like, approach and everything a lot.
03:53 And he's great and so gracious and, yeah, great.
03:57 [applause]
03:59 Thank you, you guys, for having me.
04:02 having me.
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