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choweddowninTaleOfTales
tastedworsethanitlooked...GAMESRADARCOM/TOTALFILM APRIL 2020 | TOTAL FILM
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and... he likes you to do your own stunts.
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Frida. I’m like, “I’m going to get you
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reading one of your scripts!” He didn’t
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shown up! I knew. I had to do all those
stunts. Crazy! Towards the end, I am
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the corner with the head of the stunt
guys, and he says, “Robert, I’m really
worried. She really shouldn’t do this one.
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I heard that! You want to kill me, I’m not
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you, I get to destroy you!”One of your most iconic scenes comes
in Tale Of Tales, when you’re eating
the sea monster’s heart. How was that
to shoot?
I didn’t know what I was eating. They just
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Matteo [Garrone, director] wanted the heart
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couldn’t tell what was in it. Valentina said,
“This is marshmallows soaked in blood!”
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worms... I said,
“This is where I
draw the line. You
tell me what these
worms are or I don’t
dig my teeth in it!”
They told me it’s
spaghetti, but it didn’t taste like
spaghetti... gross!What about making Everly? That was
another blood-soaked role...
That had other complications. That was
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yhu|#jhquh1More recently, you’ve found some
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Dinner and The Hummingbird Project...
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there is a little
jewel coming up.
There is a little
prylh#fdoohg#Bliss!Has doing these
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reinvigorated you?
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coming to me. That’s what’s been really
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not to make sense of it, but it’s been really
strange. You know what? Strange things
happen to strange people!Talking of all things new, you’re
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movie, Marvel’s Eternals. What was the
attraction for that?
The director [Chloé Zhao] is amazing.
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I was blown away. First of all, it’s so
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superhero that belongs to a family called
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the leader of the superheroes and all the
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Maybe Richard Madden. But the rest of us
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superheroes, and I get to be the leader.
That sounds really appropriate! Yes, why
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“Maybe they’re doing something
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She’s incredible.THE ROADS NOT TAKEN OPENS ON 1 MAY.
ETERNALS OPENS LATER THIS YEAR.IT’S SO BIZARRE. AT
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“I think she has an incredible
attention to detail, she has a fantastic
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the centre of attention [in Frida], and
she’s such a good storyteller.”
Julie Taymor“She is fearless.
She is like a
force of nature.”
Javier Bardem“She’s really funny. She’s so
gorgeous and such a knockout
and a personality, but she’s so
hysterical as well.”
Rose Byrne