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lows you to bring what you want to the character. I read the script and then had another meeting with Shane about some of my thoughts, and he was really receptive to it.
She definitely doesn’t come across as a damsel in distress… When you're fighting for your life, you have to shoot, even though nobody wants to be in a position where they have to fight for their life. The guys – they're soldiers – but I approached this character as a scientist. I'm sure that she's picked up a gun before. I grew up in a military family so I knew how to shoot guns. Making this movie was not about us finding moments for her to not be a damsel in distress. It just wasn’t on the page; it’s not what we were doing.
Was there much training or preparation for the role? She's not a trained athlete or assassin, but I think she's healthy and physical. We did a lot of gun training and that was really fun. And I loved being able to do that with the guys, learning how to shoot to- gether; every time we did that, I learned all these different techniques and tools and skills. But then I tried to incorporate what my charac- ter would do and put a little bit of shakiness into it. In this movie, there's something really big going on and for her, it's fascinating. This is something that she's waited her entire life for – especially as an evolutionary scientist, somebody who studies how creatures evolve and change. And yet this is happening right before her eyes, so, there is a shock and awe value that's happening. While everyone else is running away from the Predator, she's running towards the aliens, be- cause she’s fascinated.
Who is Casey Bracket in the movie? She’s an evolutionary scientist and biologist. In this movie, we have two storylines that merge into one. We've got Trevante Rhodes, Boyd Holbrook and Thomas Jane and that group of guys – the soldiers, and their interactions with the Predator. And on the other side, my character has been brought in by the CIA because of her expertise in evolutionary biology to get a better understanding of what they have found. She’s only called if there is a higher life that's found, and here there is definitely some alien activity.
How did you get involved? I had actually heard about it before from my reps. They talked to me about it, but I just said no. I wasn't interested because typically in a big movie like this, I'll probably go see it, but as an actress, the female role is usually delegated to just being the love interest. But, it ended com- ing back around, and they said that Shane just wanted to meet. I'm a huge fan of his work and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is one of my all-time favorite movies, so I wanted to meet with him. I really trusted him as a director. He's a filmmaker that is really collaborative and actually al-
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Does working on real sets and location help your performance? It's very intimidating and visceral and it really puts you in that space. But that being said, there's still so much stuff that is put in during post with CG and the VFX and everything that really amps it up for the au- diences at home. We get enough that we can allow our perform- ances to be even more real. A movie like this really takes advantage of how great technology is and where we've come from, and what we can do with it and how realistic things are. Especially when it comes to like the blood and guts and the destruction and death.
Shane has said it won’t shy away from the violence… I’m really big on it. I think we've gotten so PC that we lose the fun of going to the movies sometimes. For me, the more bloody spines being ripped out, the better!
What is your relationship with the original Predator? How old were you when you first saw it and how cool is it to now be in a Predator movie? I actually hadn’t seen it! I didn't see it until a few months before shoot- ing. I mean, I knew of it and maybe I knew some of the catchphrases and lines, but no, I never saw it until I signed up for this movie. What's
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