BEHIND THE UPRISINGBehind the scenes of Pacific Rim Uprising with director Steven S. DeKnight and st
BEHIND THE UPRISINGBehind the scenes of Pacific Rim Uprising with director Steven S. DeKnight and stars John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny, Charlie Day, and Burn Gorman. With Pacific Rim Uprising now in theaters, Backstory sat with director Steven S. DeKnight and the cast to discuss behind the scenes stories, insights, and inspirations behind the highly anticipated sequel to 2013’s monsters vs. mechs epic. “One of the first things I decided to do was not try to imitate (Pacific Rim director) Guillermo (del Toro). As far as I’m concerned, no one can imitate Guillermo, with his eye and his vision. And he was very supportive of that. He said ‘Look, I want you to go off and make your Pacific Rim movie, not my Pacific Rim movie. Go make your own movie. Which was fantastic. It was really the spinach I needed to get the courage to fulfill my vision.”– Steven S. DeKnight “I wanted the human world (of Pacific Rim Uprising) to be more layered. I wanted us to actually make a few scenes that really commented on the class issues. When you have a world that’s been disrupted by the apocalypse, what happens with your world? And with Jake, we’re able to see how things actually work; money and currency aren’t a thing in certain areas. It’s about food and objects and the transferring of that, and so that’s something we explored.”– John Boyega “My favorite scientific aspect of the Pacific Rim universe is the cosmology. In the first film, it was very much Charlie (Day)’s character who was the Kaiju expert and Gottlieb was much more into the mathematics and the structure of the universe. That aspect is what interests me most.” – Burn Gorman“I like that fact that’s it’s all one hundred percent scientifically accurate and realistic.”– Charlie Day“I think the most difficult thing with the stunt coordination and choreography was to make sure it was in sync. We could learn to do the fight choreography ourselves, but then we had to be totally in rhythm with each other. I had never done anything like that in a film before.”- Scott Eastwood“Jake was a full creation that we had to figure out. With him being stuck in his father’s shadow, it could go one way: you could have a character that embodies a hero and follows the same path his father did throughout the whole film. But, I’ve always wanted there to be an arc. I want my characters to start off a certain way at the beginning of the movie and by the time you watch the end of the movie, they’re a different person - something’s changed. I wanted the same thing for Jake, so we started him as much more of a rebel.”- John Boyega“I had been auditioning for about four years. Four years of no’s, four years of driving from Springfield, Missouri to Los Angeles in a minivan with my mom, couch-hopping, doing that whole thing. There were a lot of sacrifices and a lot of ‘what am I doing?’ I just wanted to be a part of something, I wanted to make something with people. And when I got a call for this, and I did my self-tape and went pretty full-out on it. I wanted to show I was down to do the action, so I was slamming my body on the ground. I was like 'I can do this! I’m ready for anything!’ Then I got a callback and met with Steven, and then did my read with John and we did some improv stuff in the audition. I was back in Missouri when I got the call that I booked the role and the whole room started spinning.”- Cailee Spaeny“I loved the first movie with the way it established the PPDC. Now, moving forward ten years, I really wanted to break down some of those borders and those barriers and really present a movie to the world that shows we can come together and we can work together. And for the younger audience in nations all over the world, I really wanted to drive home that it doesn’t matter where you’re from, it doesn’t matter who your parents are, doesn’t matter the color of your skin, or your religion, you can be a hero. You can make a difference in the world, especially if you work together.”- Steven S. DeKnight“I felt like it was really important to do justice to this character. I wanted to make sure she was grounded. She’s such a badass character who is so educated, and is smart. She’s a genius, she stands her ground, but at times she’s just a normal kid too.”- Cailee Spaeny“I took inspiration from so many classic robot and monster movies. I’ve gotta go back to Ultraman, which I still love. All the way back to Johnny Sokko’s Flying Robot, Astro Boy, Battle of the Planets. All of the monster movies I grew up with – the man in suit movies: Godzilla, Rodan, Gamera, all of that. They all went through a blender of the subconscious and then I just tried to pour my heart out into the film. I really wanted to capture that kind of feeling that I had when I was a kid watching those movies.”- Steven S. DeKnightDon’t miss Pacific Rim Uprising, in theaters everywhere now. Get your tickets here. -- source link