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 Creating such a memorable character as Xena Onatopp naturally stirred inquisitive reactions in the interview, due to a few scenes displaying remnants of her unforgettable role as the Russian assassin. “You know what, I didn’t really think about it but now that you mentioning it, I can understand that. I think that probably if we analyze every movie I’ve been in, there are going to be things that run parallel or whatever. But yeah, I didn’t actually strangle Hugh [Jackman] with my legs in this one.” As for getting back into the role as Jean Grey, Janssen explains that retaining specific emotional responses for certain scenes was challenging. “It seems hard, it seems hard to shoot. And the hard part that makes these scenes so difficult to make, especially when you have to play emotional scenes is that they’re dragged out over a week sometimes. Where as in an independent film, that scene would take half a day to shoot and you can keep your emotional intensity for exactly the amount of time it takes to shoot. But in this case the scene when Patrick [Stewart] and Ian’s [McKellen] characters come to my house, where I’m sitting there. It took a week to shoot that scene because we were inside the house, there were walls that were shaking, things blown out, things that were flying around and every single time we had to play that scene with a different background or you know, different things had happened to make the transition, it’s just really difficult as an actor to keep the same exact emotional intensity and then throw it out over a week.” As for the long shooting days Janssen elaborated by saying, “For some reason all of my close-ups ended up at three or four o’clock in the morning. Lucky me. [Laughs] So it was a challenging experience.” Due to the film’s content, the use of computer-generated imagery (C.G.I.) was heavily employed, so the challenge of performing in non-existent environments, as wild as it sounds, offered Janssen to imagine the scene in her own mind. “Most of it I had a sense of it because the infirmary scene was basically as was, things were shaking around so there wasn’t so much added there. They did have a stunt double for Hugh [Jackman] flying against the wall and when that happened I remember going, “Oh my god that’s crazy!” The way it looks in the movie, it looked like that when I was sitting there. The way he got you know, I supposedly threw him up against that wall.” In her opinion the only scenes that were dramatically different in her mind was during the end of the film. “The biggest change or dramatic difference was the finale of the movie because we were standing there, we were outside, we were just against ... |
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