Yesterday, we were able to see a pair of interviews with Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt along with two Christopher Nolan interviews and more Inception B-roll footage. Today, we have eight new interviews with Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Ken Watanabe, Michael Caine, Dileep Rao, Emma Thomas, and Chris Brigham.
Beware. These interviews contain a few mild spoilers.
Black Book Magazine has posted a fun little interview with two of the co-stars of Inception, Cillian Murphy and Ken Watanabe. The two actors -who have chosen to live outside of Hollywood- talk about what that means for their careers, what it was like working with director Christopher Nolan more than once, and just what they can tell us about Inception.
What can you tell us about Inception?
Cillian: This film has the structure of a heist movie, although not quite that conventional, of course. It’s an existential heist. Chris plays with shifting narratives, like he did in Memento. This one’s equally complex. I don’t know how it was for you, Ken, but when I first got the script, it was a hard read because it’s so visual. I’d never read anything like it in my life.
Ken: It was so confusing. I couldn’t understand it the first time.What do you do in that situation, when you read a script and have no idea what’s going on?
Cillian: I trust Chris. He came up with this idea when he was 16 or something. He’s one of the greatest living directors—I think he’s proven that. So I knew this was material he’d be able to manifest in scale and emotion.
Ken: I had just wrapped a film in Africa and was on my way back to Japan when I got a call from Chris. He asked me to come to L.A., which is a 16 1/2-hour flight from Dubai. I met with him and he asked, “Are you a skier?†Coincidentally, I was born in snow country, and my father is a ski instructor. He explained the synopsis. His projects are really big so I needed to prepare a lot and also train in English. I wasn’t confident I had enough time before we started shooting, but I thought, This is the first time I’ve been asked to work with the same Hollywood director twice. I need to do this.
Head over to BlackBookMag.com to read the full interview. Thanks to GamingFreak in the forums for the heads up.
A featurette about the filming of Christopher Nolan’s next film, Inception, has apparently begun playing during theater previews this weekend. We received one report from an avid Nolan fan that this was shown during the pre-trailer previews of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time at an AMC theater.
Some of the shots described to us included Tom Hardy’s character at a poker table, Leonardo DiCaprio in the ocean, surrounded by crewmen. There was also some footage of Christopher Nolan at a rotating set, directing. Cillian Murphy was also seen in this wearing a snow suit. New shots of some dialog between DiCaprio, Ellen Page, and Ken Watanabe. And lastly, some footage of the crew filming shots in the snow and filming DiCaprio trying to get through a mob of people (probably in Tangier.)
We’ll post a video of this as soon as one becomes available. Let us know what you think of all this. Comment below.
