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Com o diretor e membros do elenco!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
É o seguinte, está em inglês e eu não estou com tempo (nem paciência) de traduzir...
Mas pra quem entende inglês (como eu
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Question: Directing a sequel creatively always seems like a double-edged sword. On the one hand you successfully created this world and these characters and had tremendous success with that and opening up new possibilities just starting full throttle with the action and a new storyline. On the other hand you might be saying, 'how do I top myself?' I did this and it worked out really well. Is that how you see it when you approach a sequel or is it different than that?
Bryan Singer: Well, it's kind of necessary because I think when people are going to see a sequel they don't want to simply see a continuation of exactly what they have seen before. They want to see a continuation, an evolution, so you want to improve upon it, make it better. The benefit here is not to be saddled with introducing a new universe to an audience that may not be familiar with it, introducing twelve new characters. A lot of characters are already introduced, so it's a great opportunity to now have fun with them. The few new characters that are going to be introduced in this film, one can do with less exposition and just have more fun with it. It's actually a lot easier. The pressure is that you want to make it bigger and more spectacular. Fortunately we have a little more time, a couple more dollars and everybody knows what they're doing a little better, particularly me.
Question: I saw (in the new trailer) that there was a little romance going on between Wolverine and Jean Grey, maybe a little love amongst the war? What can you tell us about that?
Hugh Jackman: Well… (laughing) It's basically Wolverine is trying to keep her at bay, because she's so hot for him all the time. That's the only time… There is a little bit of action. (laughing)
Famke Janssen: Cyclops is sitting right next to me.
Hugh Jackman: Oh sorry! (more laughing) I said he wasn't to be invited! The love triangle, I suppose, hots up. And I've got somebody kicking me in the shins (Singer) right now, so I can't talk about it no more. That's it, that's all I can tell ya.
Question: Can you talk about what characters will get more screen time this time? It seems like you have so many characters and so much time.
Bryan Singer: I've solved that, it will be a longer movie and that way everyone will get the same amount of time. Actually, oddly enough, with all the characters and bit of splintering that happens in terms of locations where people end up and how they come apart and come together, it's very evenly spaced, so to speak, for lack of a better, less glamorous interpretation. I think some characters that weren't utilized as much in the last film will emerge a great deal more in this film, and then the new characters. Every character serves a story at any given time, so it's hard for me, I have no tally in my head. Sometimes certain characters have more lines, have less screen time and visa versa.
Question: This is for Anna, you said you wanted to get a costume and get to kick some ass in this movie. Did you get your wish?
Anna Paquin: Um…am I allowed to say that? Isn't that like plot? Clearly, my character has to go from being sort of frightened of everyone she encounters and has to evolve in some way. So, yeah, in a lot of ways I do get to do a lot more stuff that I didn't get to do in the last movie, but I'm not sure how much I can say about that without giving away plot and getting into trouble.
Question: With all the new characters that have been added to this film, did they do any, perhaps, research of the characters they are playing by way of the comics? And how they hope to incorporate their own vision of that character to what is established in the continuity of the characters as they've been written.
Alan Cumming: Well… uhm… I'm a new person (laughing) and I read some comics. It's quite impressive, actually, because not only am I playing sort of a blue mutant with all these odd physical things, but also you know everyone in the world apart from me seems to have some idea about how this character should look or be. So there's a bit of pressure. So, yeah, I read some comics and listened to some people. It's kind of hard because halfway through the film I realized that Mystique is my mother which no one told me. So, it's an ongoing learning curve for me.
Question: A question for Patrick. What character from classical or Shakespearean drama would you most liken Prof. Xavier to and how has he changed between the first movie and the second?
Patrick Stewart: I would liken him to Achilles because in every sense he's perfect, except for one little tiny flaw…which I can't talk about. (laughing) And he remains, as he was in the first film, brilliant, intelligent, compassionate, adorable, sexy (laughing), understanding, forceful, womanly, manly...
Sir Ian McKellen: (Turns face down towards Patrick with hand over his mouth) Full of sh...
Patrick Stewart: No, not full of shit. (As he puts his arm around Ian) But I can say this, I think I can say this, he is not quite what he seems.
Alan Cumming: He's gay in this film (laughing).
Question: The core metaphors for the X-Men have always been racism and intolerance, and at some level paranoia. I know, Brian, you have always said that the God Loves, Man Kills is your favorite X-Men story, is there anything about the worsening situation in the world in the past five, ten years, ethnic cleansing that sort of thing, that has lent more power to the script you've written or added more considerations?
Bryan Singer: It's a strange problem… I don't know. Ian, do you have a thought on this? Seriously, though, because oddly it's paradoxical.
Sir Ian McKellen: I think from as I understand it, the X-Men comics are classics in the sense of being around for a long time. Because they go on being of interest to their readers. And of interest to their readers because their readers actually identify with the characters. I doubt if everyone here hasn't' thought of themselves as a mutant at some point in their lifes. And obviously when you're young, that can be particularly strong, I think. Regardless of world events. It's closer to home and how you're treated at school, or how you're treated by your parents or how you're treated by the church you might go to, disregarded by the politicians. If you feel you're in a sort of disadvantaged group than you can take comfort in the fact that there are some very powerful people in this fictional world who stand up for themselves against all the odds. That's the basic, philosophical argument between Xavier and Magneto as to what to do. But that would seem to me to be why the comic strips, and now the movies, are likely to go on being popular. And I think if you got too tied up with the specifics of international politics, you might get a bit away from the classic nature of the story.
Question: Halle, a lot of things have changed for you since the last X-Men movie. Did you bring your Oscar for show-and-tell to the set? And to the rest of the cast, does she appear any different to you?
(Hugh Jackman leans back in his chair, pointing down to Halle, with exaggerated big eyes) (laughing)
Halle Berry: They're sick of the Oscar. Can't you just tell how sick of it they are? But no, I didn't bring it and, no nothing has changed. Honestly, no, nothing as least as far as this production goes. One of the good things about coming back to this, with Oscar in hand or not, is that we were sort of like, you know when you start a movie the first month is spent getting to know everybody and just when you get to know everybody, the experience is usually over. Although that wasn't the case in the first X-Men, that was six months (laughing). But normally, just when you're finding that groove and you're all starting to gel, then it's time to stop. We got a chance to reconvene and sort of pick up where we left off. So that's been a really fun, fun part of the experience, for me anyway.
Question: For the returning cast members, what was it like stepping back into your characters and being able to explore these characters again and take them to another level?
James Marsden: I can say that I think a lot of the first one was devoted to explaining to the audience members and the cinema-goers, who the X-Men were, what they were capable of and what their story was. You know, a good percentage of the movie was exposition, explaining the characters. I think we've gotten that out of the way now. So we can see these characters kind of spring into action and not have to worry about is everyone going to know who they are and what the situation is. I think now that we've established that in the first film now we can have some fun.
Question: Do you find the success of Spider-Man raised the bar for a superhero movie?
Bryan Singer: The success of it, from an economic standpoint? If you get caught up in that game, the box office and trying to predict those kinds of things, if that's what you're referring to, I think about that stuff. You think about it, but you don't really apply it. You just stick to what you're doing. Our tone of these X-Men movies, particularly this one, which is a bit darker and a bit edgier than the previous one, is a little different than the tone of Spider-Man. And it's also a universe, unlike Spider-Man, that has a specific fan base that is very strong and then it has another side that has no idea of what X-Men is, beyond the movie. Where Spider-Man is part of common lexicon. My mother knows what Spider-Man is. She doesn't know anything about it, she just knows the red and webs. Here, it's very alien to people who don't know it. So, it's kind of a different tone and that reality make us a different kind of comic book adaptation. So we tend not to draw those kind of comparisons or think about them that much. It's nice because it helps boost the awareness of the comic book adaptations and make comics universes between Marvel universes appealing, which I think helps us down the road in a good way. Everything supports everything else. Successful science fiction supports more good science fiction. Beyond that, you can't look at that. You have to make your own movie. I'm not just saying that because it's the thing to say. It's actually genuine.
Question: What has been the most challenging on this project, and on the flip side of that, has there been anything just fun, something funny that has happened on the set that you could tell the fans about?
Bryan Singer: You just missed it. (laughing) Came two hours late. (laughing) Shawn? Can you recall something funny that's happened on the set?
Shawn Ashmore: It's a story about Hugh, actually. Hugh's sister actually got dressed up in the full Wolverine gear and stepped in for a take. Like everything. So that was probably the funniest thing I saw. It was Bryan's reaction when he finally realized what was going on that was so funny. He was watching it on the monitor and there was a shot from behind and the shot from the side. And you could see Bryan just missing the...
Bryan Singer: I thought it was Hugh making some creepy face, or just lost an incredible amount of weight. Until it was over, I had no idea.
Shawn Ashmore: So yeah, that was pretty funny.
Hugh Jackman: It was funny to me until I actually saw it and then it was really weird. I can't look at my sister. We look remarkably similar.
Bryan Singer: They have the same facial structure. And then they that (pointing to the facial hair) and the hair (gesturing to the top of head making the shape of Wolverine's hair), and the tank top…
Hugh Jackman: Yup, I have breasts! (laughing)
Bryan Singer: It was the most disturbing moment.
Hugh Jackman: My son looks at the photo and goes, "I have two Daddies."
Question: Brian Cox, can you talk a little bit about the Stryker character?
Brian Cox: I sort of represent the human face of this film. (laughing) Because they're all, as we know, mutants. I'm the only human that I know of in the film. As the experience of the film is going on, I'm not so sure if I'm a human. He's the guy who basically is the odd-man-out who is trying to rationalize what these people are about and exercise some control over them by various means which I am not at liberty to talk about.
Question: This question is for Alan. We kind of thought Rebecca got the short end with the whole make-up process. But now you've gone blue too, can you kind of go into how you get read for being Nightcrawler?
Alan Cumming: Mentally, it's very difficult. I have to get up really early and I have some lovely, lovely makeup people, Charles and Jay, that do it. You just have to get into a zone where you don't mind grown men poking at your face for four hours and spraying you with stuff. Sometimes I watch films in the mirror, which is quite hard if they're subtitled. (laughs) I have these kind of tattoos, and I rue the day that I was the one who actually said, "No, let's go with the tattoos. They look really great." And now they take a lot more time to get stuck on. I'm hoping that maybe if there's a sequel that some strange mutant accident could have taken and Nightcrawler will have no tattoos and be white. (laughing) I also thought that if the technology in this film is quite incredible, the effects, and I thought maybe next time I could do the film as me and they could put the makeup on afterwards.
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos: That's what I used to think.
Alan Cumming: Yeah, I know. So there's this thing with people who wore contact lenses in the first film. There's sort of you know you payed your dues. Halle and Rebecca don't wear contact lenses any more. You get those done afterwards. I am wearing contact lenses. It must be a kind of rites of passage that you've got to go through. So, maybe next time I'll get no contact lenses.
Question: What about the tail?
Alan Cumming: The tail, well the tails, sometimes I'm wearing it, sometimes I'm not, cause sometimes it's done afterwards. Like I have a harness thing and than there's various consistencies of boingyness. Some of them might slap me in the face. If I don't have the full tail, I have this little stub thing with dots on it for the special effects people to be able to do things afterwards. And that's quite popular with the ladies (laughs) and the gentlemen as well. (laughing) And myself. (laughing)
Question: Question for Halle, I noticed that your hairstyle is a little bit different. How about character progression, is that a little bit different as well?
Halle Berry: I think everybody's happy with the hair change. It's been a big, big discussion about the hair because I know Bryan and Lauren Shuler Donner, our producer, wanted to really get it right because they felt like that was something that desperately needed to be changed from the first movie. So, hopefully, everybody will like it better. And I think my character, this time around you get to learn a little bit more about who Storm is. She definitely is allowed to present a point of view this time that I didn't get to present last time. Sort of what her emotional life is like, you didn't really get a taste of that, and you get a taste of that this time. So, I think there's some evolution.
Question: For Kelly, you get to keep your clothes on this time (laughs) and can you tell a little bit more about your character?
Kelly Hu: Yeah, I wear a lot of clothes in this movie, actually. I'm actually very happy about it, being that we're shooting here in Vancouver and it's so cold. The character, geez, well, I guess I can talk about it, right? I play a mutant. I wasn't allowed to talk about it before, and now I'm so scared. Anyway, it's such a fun character for me to be doing. I get to do a lot of…
Bryan Singer: Fighting.
Kelly Hu: Fighting. I get to do a lot of fighting, I can say it! And it's fun. It's really exciting for me because it's the stuff that I really enjoy doing the most.
Question: For Mr. Jackman, in the last film it seemed fairly obvious that Wolverine was the breakout star and lot of the action...
Ian McKellen: Ha! (laughs).
Hugh Jackman: I'll sort you out later, thank you.
Question: …a lot of attention and intensity surrounded him in the film. What do you want to bring to the character in this film that you were not able to bring in the last one?
Hugh Jackman: The first film, a lot of the storyline did in a way focus on Wolverine and Rogue, but it was more I think a plot choice because they're ideal mutants to take you into the mutant world and yet to keep you as outsider. Am I right? Whilst he was on screen a lot, you get well introduced to the character, who he was, and then he becomes an essential part of that whole world-saving plot we had. In this film, his sort of personal demons are really investigated. At the end of the first movie, he's going to track down his past, which is very much what this movie is about. If it doesn't come to a complete resolution, it's pretty damned close. So, he's sort of, in a way, emotionally and with the return of nightmares and things like that, He's at a crisis point. It's more internal in a way. You get a more internal look at the character, and that's been really fun to play with. As we alluded to before, there's a few relationships that hot up a little, and I'm just loving playing the character again. I genuinely, really this love this character. And for a movie such, if you can call it an action movie or a comic book movie, all the characters seem to have dimension beyond what you would expect. I'm having a ball. It's great.
Question: For Patrick, having played them both, who would you consider to be a better leader: Charles Xavier or Jean Luc Picard?
Patrick Stewart: If I were to answer really honestly, I would dismiss both of those and say I think perhaps the best leader would be the breakout star of the last movie. (laughs) Charles Xavier needs more time. Jean Luc has had 16 years, therefore more opportunities. With the same opportunities, any studio people who are here, perhaps we will see him develop as richly as Jean Luc.
(Patrick looks at Bryan Singer) Is this the moment I ask you to stand up and reveal what you're wearing?
(Singer stands up, wearing a Star Trek: Nemesis T-shirt).
Bryan Singer: I hate to draw a comparison to other film, but in a little like the way Empire Strikes Back sort of took everything and explored peoples' frailties and weaknesses and also the potential weakness of the group in their attempt to try to overcome evil-doers. This film is like that kind of story. So you get to see everybody's weaker side, and then people hopefully try to overcome. Definitely Xavier, his weaknesses. He and Magneto are cut from a similar cloth and both of them are not entirely right or wrong. That makes it kind of interesting. That's why it's exciting to have Magneto back in the story in a different vein, but not as different as it may appear or as you make it.
Patrick Stewart: Can I just add one thing to what I said? I just would like to make it absolutely clear that both Jean Luc Picard and Professor Charles Xavier could kick Captain Kirk's butt. (laughing)
Question: You sir Ian and Patrick, going into sci-fi, I don't see it as a big stress between Shakespeare and science fiction, just different times and ages. Your leaning towards more science fiction characters, is there a reason?
Ian McKellen: Well I think it's all just work, really? (laughs) You take a job for different reasons, and different actors will have different reasons for being on this film. It might just might be the money, it might just be wanting to live away from home for a bit, or, if shooting's close by, living at home. There's all sorts of reasons. It's a bit different being in Vancouver, it's a long way from my home and to be working with people who I'd likely be working with in London. That's just the nature of the business, so perhaps the nature of Bryan's taste in actors. He likes a variety of people from different disciplines, maybe. A lot of foreigners in this film, for a Hollywood movie. For me, one connects X-Men with Lord of the Rings or with doing The Recruiting Officer or a play by Shakespeare is that I wouldn't want to do anything of them if the scripts weren't good. Well, classic plays are tried and tested, and you know they're good. There's not much of a leap of faith. But when you get something like a film script, it's more dangerous ground and things are not as certain. But I'm attracted to X-Men because of what I was talking about earlier on and the moral basis of it, which I think is frankly a great deal more interesting than Spider-Man, which is exactly the same story as Superman, you know. Nerd becomes a hero by putting on a fantasy frock in front of the mirror, there's no where to go with that story. Except to repeat it next time. That's why people like going to see Spider-Man, because it reminds them of their extreme youth. Our movie is about politics, our movie is about what it's like to live in the real world, even though it's called a fantasy. So there isn't a great stretch and difference between this and other things. What connects the sort of thing that we all try to do, I suspect here, is that the writing is good, and we have a story worth telling.
Bryan Singer: Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty are the two writers who have been working on the film the past year. They're really terrific and have completely comprehended, embraced and executed the history, depth and eloquence, and some of the politics, the tricky politics, of these characters and this universe. They've done quite an amazing job under tremendous adversity.
Question: Shawn Ashmore, can you tell us what's in store for your character this time out?
Shawn Ashmore: Well, I obviously can't get into too much detail. But, basically, Bobby kinda becomes, gets brought into the fold a little bit. Obviously, he's still a student at the school. But I think mainly his role in the film is just to be brought in the fold a bit and join the group and become kind of a more important part of the whole adventure that happens, I guess. So, without giving too much away, that's basically what happens with Bobby. He just kind of gets brought into the group a bit.
Question: For Anna, a lot of the focus in the last film as Hugh mentioned was on your character. And in the comic books, Rogue has gone through a lot of evolutions, a whole big character arc, and we see her now as this sort of like strong, independent-minded character. Are you taking steps in the film towards that and will we see you more comfortable in your own skin and becoming part of the fold like Iceman?
Anna Paquin: Yeah, I think what's nice about this being the second movie that Rogue is in is that she's left behind a lot of the shy, timid sort of shutting everyone else out because she's been accepted into a group where she is not an outsider or going to be treated differently or poorly because of her mutant abilities. And so she is allowed to sort of grow more and just get to do more stuff and be more part of the action. She doesn't need to be rescued. She's not the damsel in distress anymore. So it's kind of fun and there's a lot more action and kind of stuff that I get to do, which is fun. It's really great, actually, not having to be rescued for the entire movie.
Question: For Halle, the last movie was shot in Toronto. This time in Vancouver being on the West Coast. What are the major differences, shooting between the two cities? Being closer to home, does it make it easier being here as opposed to there?
Halle Berry: It has for me, because out of the cast members, I think, I'm always the one who is jetting out of here to catch that last flight. As soon as I'm done, I'm on a plane and I'm back in L.A. That makes it really easy because it's only a two-hour flight. I feel a lot closer to home. I did feel really far away last time. I've actually enjoyed this city a bit more. Maybe it's the smallness of it, the quaintness of it, the charm of it. It's a lot different than Toronto. I've actually gone out and done more things and really enjoyed it and explored it. I personally like it better here.
Bryan Singer: We also spent a lot of time in the winter in Toronto. Which was very cold. And here, most of our principal photography and outdoor photography and a lot of time off in the in-between time the actors have had, has been during the summer here in the Vancouver. That's also helped make things a lot easier.
Halle Berry: I also grew going to Toronto a lot, living in Cleveland. So that was like no big whoop. This is a big whoop here. I just like it.
Question: For Rebecca, there were some horror stories attached to your blue paint and scales last time around with the fumes made you throw up. Have they fixed any of that?
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos: They have. The process has gotten a lot better. We're not using the same kind of paint. We're not using the same kind of glue. They've completely changed the process and we've gotten it down to under four hours now, which is huge for me. But I've still had a few 2 am calls. We're still working on that. And the clean up is a lot better. I don't get sick like I did last time. I still have the blue in my ears. It doesn't come out.
Ian McKellen: My image of that last film was in I think November, at 2, 3, 4 in the morning, outside, everyone wrapped up. I'm sure you (Singer) had your thermals on, three pairs of socks, boots, furs, hats, gloves, scarves, everything against the cold. And this heroine…
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos: Chump… (laughing)
Ian McKellen: Never a peep of complaint out of her in a situation when any complaint she made would have been understandable and acted upon. And you were brilliant, absolutely brilliant, and a model. And I've tried to be better behaved since working with Rebecca.
Question: For Bryan, maybe you comment on Marvel's involvement? One can argue that thanks to the success of the first X-Men, Marvel is now swimming in lots of their properties coming to movies. Were they watching over your shoulder or did they like where you were going and just leave you hands-off?
Bryan Singer: The second. Pretty much.
Question: They've been kind of taken a more adult stance with their comics lately. I'm wonder if they have perhaps talked to you about it?
Bryan Singer: I think their feeling was that they are very pleased with the success of the first film and that the fact a roll of Marvel Films have gotten going quite successfully. More during our developmental stages, they're involved. I always had a tremendously great, supportive relationship. Avi was always, "I trust you." Yeah, they have thoughts and ideas. They've been much less involved now because I think they are focusing on other first films. We've got our thing going. But their still, we're old friends, so we talk a bit. There's never any mandates or discussions beyond just support, ideas and "Wouldn't it be neat if…" and "Hey, we're thinking of doing this. Do you think it's cool? We're going to introduce this character, great, cool" They're focusing on some of their other pictures, probably Hulk or something, because it's a first film in terms of their direct involvement. And, also, we're here. It's Vancouver. No one wants to get on a plane. We make out very independent X-Men.
Question: For Famke, what's up with you and Jon Favreau in films lately?
Famke Janssen: What's up with me and Jon Favreau. We're friends. Actually after we did Love and Sex together, we became good friends and then he wrote the part for me in Made. Then he invited me to his show, Dinner for Five. But we're just friends. I think he'll always want to cast me in something and I'll always want to work with him, so that's great?
Question: Famke, I have a follow-up question about the character. In addition to her deepening emotional ties to Wolverine, what is happening with Jean?
Famke Janssen: She got a haircut. (laughing) Very important. I'm sure you saw that in the trailer. It's basically kind of the things we touched upon in the first movie with the love triangle. And she has some issues with her powers that we kind of explore in the second one a little bit more."
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