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2010: TRON LEGACY Interview Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, Garrett
Hedlund, Olivia Wilde and Michael Sheen
28 juillet by Christina Radish
The highly
anticipated sci-fi film Tron: Legacy is finally opening in theaters on
December 17th, much to the delight of fans of the 1982 original. After
nearly three decades of updated technology, the story is now a
high-tech, 3-D adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything
ever captured on the big screen.
While at Comic-Con, Jeff Bridges & Bruce Boxleitner, co-stars from the
original film, were joined by Tron newcomers Garrett Hedlund, Olivia
Wilde and Michael Sheen, to talk about the excitement for the film,
revisiting the world and putting on those electronic suits. Check out
what they had to say after the jump:
Question: For the actors new to the Tron franchise, what was your
first exposure to the original?
Question : Pour les acteurs nouveaux de la
franchise Tron, quelle a été votre première exposition à l'original ?
Michael: I remember when I first saw Tron back in 1943.
Olivia: It came out two years before I was born, but it’s always
part of the culture. I was aware of it because of video games. It was
this cool retro thing that I was aware of. It was just part of the
zeitgeist. I just always knew it was cool, and now we’ve made it cooler.
Olivia : Il a sorti deux ans avant ma
naissance, mais c'est toujours une partie de la culture. Je me rendais
compte de lui en raison des jeux vidéo. C'était de cette chose rétro et
cool dont je me rendais compte. C'était juste une partie du goût de
l'époque. Je juste toujours su que c'était cool, et maintenant nous
l'avons rendu encore plus cool.
Michael: I was 11 when it first came out. I went to a cinema. My uncle
Russell was there with me and, apart from the phenomenal acting, I
forget who the actors were. It was just that look. It was both a
futuristic and historical cyber-movie with this weird thing called CG.
Garrett: I never saw the original until about 2003. I saw it on my
laptop oversees somewhere. A pal had shown it to me. He said, “You’ve
never seen the original Tron? You have to see Tron.” So, I sat back and
watched, and I just thought it was a trip. It was like nothing I’d ever
seen before. At that point, it being 20 years old, it still played so
well.
Jeff, what was your reaction when this first came across your path?
Jeff: Well, I had heard rumors that there was going to be a sequel, for
many years, but I gave up on it. And then, all of a sudden, this script
showed up and Disney had it on the back burners because they were not
satisfied with the script, so they waited. And, I’m so happy they did
because we got a good script. They also held out and found the right guy
to be at the helm. With Joe Kosinski, I really think they found a
terrific leader because he came from architecture. It’s always
interesting where a director comes from, whether he’s a writer or an
actor. To have an architect at the helm of this one was terrific. He was
really up-to-date with all of the modern techniques we had in special
effects, so he was a great leader and he was terrific with actors. When
we got that whole package together and then presented it, I said, “This
sounds like something I’d love to do.” Just like the first one, it
tickled the kid in me to be sucked inside a computer and play with all
of the new toys that we had available to us. To be involved with the
cutting edge was very exciting.
How does it feel to see people so excited about Tron again?
Jeff: Oh, it’s great. It’s so exciting. Comic-Con wasn’t around back
when the first one came out. To feel the energy of the people, we really
sensed it when we came here last year and showed the trailer. It was the
year before that when we showed the first test, and that was very
responsible for getting the whole movie rolling and getting it financed.
The fans have been very integral to this whole thing.
Did you do any photography on the set of this film?
Jeff: No, I didn’t take too many pictures on this film, mainly because
the cameras that I use are wide lens. They require quite a bit of light
and our movie required very little light. Because of the suits, it was
quite dim, so I didn’t take too many pictures. I have a few and they may
pop up on the web site again.
What’s it like to have Daft Punk involved with the film’s score?
Qu'est ce que cela fait d'avoir Daft Punk
impliqué pour le film ?
Olivia: It was amazing because they would come to where we were
shooting. Sometimes, if we really needed to find the tone of a scene, we
would listen to a Daft track and then you’d really understand where you
were with the scene. I thought that was really helpful and really
inspiring, so we were lucky with that.
Olivia : C'était étonnant parce qu'ils
venaient où nous tournions. Parfois, si nous devions vraiment trouver la
tonalité d'une scène, nous écoutions une chanson de Daft et alors nou
comprenions vraiment où nous en étions avec la scène. J'ai pensé que
cela était vraiment utile et vraiment inspirant, ainsi nous étions
chanceux avec ça.
Jeff, do you think 3-D is here to stay?
Jeff: As far as 3-D goes, I don’t know if that will stay very long
because things are moving so rapidly. As filmmakers, we’re constantly
always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the
reality of the story we’re telling. There’s a film process called Show
Scan that Douglas Trumbull developed that didn’t take off. That was
running the film at 60 frames, instead of 24 frames, and it was
projected that way. It made everything look sharp and with almost a 3-D
effect. 3-D without glasses should be coming out in the next 10 years.
That would be a hologram. Or, maybe you’ll just take a pill. It will be
Tron: The Pill.
Bruce, how did it feel to work on this?
Bruce: Well, the idea of working with Jeff again, and finding out where
these characters went after all these years, and seeing what happened to
them, was what intrigued me. When I first read the script, I was just
thrilled about it because I had no idea that Alan Bradley had become
such a lost soul. It was such a great take on these characters that was
so absolutely real. I was just thrilled by it.
What was it like to wear the electronic suits?
Qu'est ce que cela fait de porter des costumes
électroniques ?
Olivia: It was amazing.
C'était amusant
Michael: It was amazing to watch Olivia in the suit.
Olivia: It was totally revolutionary. This had never been done
before. We were wearing electro-luminescent lamps woven through layers
of neoprene and all these other amazing materials. It was an honor to be
able to wear something like that, that was changing the way that every
other department was working on the film. It would change the way the
scene was lit, and it would open up all of these possibilities. It was
really beautiful. We would get really excited every time the suits would
turn on because you’d look around and go, “Gosh, this is really amazing.”
Then, it made this sound, which the sound department loved.
Olivia : C'était totalement révolutionnaire. Cela n'a jamais été
fait avant. Nous utilisions les lampes électro-luminescentes tissées sur
des couches de néoprène et de tous ces autres matériaux étonnants.
C'était un honneur de pouvoir porter quelquechose de pareil, cela
changeait la manière dont chaque autre département travaillait sur le
film. Cela changait la manière dont la scène avait été allumée, et elle
ouvrait toutes ces possibilités. C'était vraiment beau. Nous devenions
vraiment excités chaque fois que les costumes s'allumaient parce que
nous regardions autour et irions, « ça alors, ceci est vraiment
étonnant. » Puis, cela a fait ce bruit, qui est cela que le département
a aimé.
Garrett: We had to train immensely for the suit and they do this thing
called cyber-scan, where they created this suit out of every curve and
definition of your body, so it was completely exact and fit like a glove.
Then, you would go into a dark room and light it up. That was the most
satisfying.
Michael: There was a great moment before every take where, just before
they’d say, “Action!,” they’d say, “Light them up!” In the scenes that I
was in, there were a lot of people in them, so the whole room would
suddenly light up and you’d forget to act for a little bit because it
was so cool.
Bruce: In the original film, all we had was spandex tights with magic
marker. It was the first male thong. We didn’t plug them in.
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