EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Olivia Wilde: “Tron: Legacy’s” Hot Role Model
By Lynn Barker on 17 octobre 2010 07:00:00 UTC
TeenHollywood has trekked over to the Venice, California headquarters
of Digital Domain, the home of Special Effects movie wizardry, to see a
preview of the cool upcoming Disney Sci Fi film Tron: Legacy and chat
with the filmmakers and actors. We are zeroing in on the hot female star
of the movie Olivia Wilde who really feels that her character Quorra is
a great role model for teen girls (and we’re sure she’ll be a smokin’
babe to teen guys). Olivia also thinks that, aside from the fact
that the movie is loaded with cool costumes and futuristic action and
sets, it’s really about family.
Quorra is the embodiment of a computer program living in a video game
computer world called Tron. When a handsome human “User” is sucked into
the world, it’s up to Quorra, a martial arts whiz, to protect him.
Olivia told us she did all her training in flats then had a little
trouble once she put on her costume, which included 4-inch heels!
TeenHollywood: Olivia, your cute co-star Garrett Hedlund has
said that he has a newfound respect for somebody who can do a high
roundhouse kick in four-inch heels. That would be you of course.
Olivia: [laughs] Well, when we first all got into our [light] suits,
there were a lot of jokes about 'turning each other on'.
TeenHollywood: We know teen guys will love this movie but why
will girls enjoy Tron: Legacy and your character?
Olivia: Girls will enjoy the vehicles, the effects, the family story,
the performances and the fashion. [The movie] is very interesting and
futuristic in its fashion and also in the design of the film from the
streets of the Grid to the lines of the suits and hair.
I think women will empathize with Quorra because she is not just a sexy
vixen. She's not the temptress. She's not there to serve the men as eye
candy which can happen all too often in Sci fi films. She's, on her own,
quite powerful. She is unique in her child-like innocence. She's
enthusiastic and quirky and awkward in an enjoyable way and she's really
smart. I think women will like that.
TeenHollywood: Would you go as far as to say she’s a role
model for women?
Olivia: I think young women will hopefully, look up to her and have her
as a role model in a time when I think there is a lack of sci-fi female
role models for kids. When I was little it was "Wonder Woman" [TV show
with Linda Carter in the role] and she stood for social justice and
truth. Who now do kids have to dress up as for Halloween who stands for
social justice and truth. They dress up as princesses...boring. So I
think that Quorra will hopefully be that for young women. I was grateful
I was able to make her like that. It would have been quite easy to make
her just the sexy character.
TeenHollywood: Do you consider yourself a geek or Sci Fi geek?
Olivia: Yeah. I think nerd would be a better term because geek implies
that I have some sort of expertise in the technological or gaming world
and I'm completely naive about technology and gaming but I'm a total
nerd because, coming into a project like Tron, you could have focused on
the cool cars and sexy suits. I was thinking 'Oh, Quorra is Joan of Arc
or she’s an ancient Buddhist/Korean warrior. I was bringing in all these
elements that , thank God, our creative team was so receptive to. But, I
completely nerded out. We're all nerds in this movie so we did well
together.
TeenHollywood: Did you know about the original movie Tron that
hit theaters in 1982? Had you seen it?
Olivia: Yeah. What struck me about the original Tron was it's very funny
and it was so unusual. I think the look of it is actually quite
beautiful. The black and white with the colors in the suits. That was a
beautiful choice and very revolutionary at the time. CG had never been
used before like that. Tron became part of the cultural fabric of the
last thirty years. It's been showing up in everything from "Family Guy"
to "The Simpsons" to "Chuck". Even if you haven't seen it, it's not
something that you wouldn't be aware of. A lot of people still haven't
seen Star Wars but they feel like they have because it's part of the
Earth now.
TeenHollywood: Tron: Legacy is full of electronic gadgets and
imagery. Do you think that electronic gadgets are just distancing kids,
teens and even adults from each other or is it just a phase we're going
through?
Olivia: Well, it's interesting. It's doing two things at once. It's
definitely distancing us from each other but it's also bringing us
together. If you think back to what it was like to communicate with
someone across the world just ten years ago, and now I chat with someone
in China. It's being used in schools where instead of just having pen
pals, kids have whole classes that they communicate with in other
nations. That's where technology is working well and for the good of
humanity.
TeenHollywood: Is there a message in the movie about the
misuse of modern technology?
Olivia: I think the message of the film is that you have to embrace what
is valuable and good about being human and harness the power of
technology only in the most positive way. We need to recognize how easy
it is to lose yourself to the technology and how we mustn't lose what it
is to be human. The end message is that there is some redemption for
those of us who have been swallowed by technology.
TeenHollywood: What is your personal use of modern technology?
Olivia: I use it in the way most people do. I'm stuck to my phone. I
need the internet. I forget what life was like before Google and I've
certainly taken advantage of what it's done for the ease of life. But I
do enjoy taking a hiatus from it once in a while. You suddenly realize
how stress-free you feel. Recently, I was looking for a business in a
city and someone said 'I can look in the phone book.' and I was appalled.
'What? Why? Give me my phone and I'll find it in a second.' So, you can
see how much it's changed.
TeenHollywood: Quorra is actually a program inside the
computer grid. What is it like for an actress to play that?
Olivia: When you are playing a non-human character, you can't focus on
not being human. Joan of Arc was my main source of inspiration for her.
She seemed to be from another world. She was 14-year-old leading the
French army. She thought she was communicating with God so she was
working for a higher purpose, completely selfless and she was strangely
powerful and fearless. That's how I wanted Quorra to feel; that she is
very emotional and compassionate in the way that humans are but
connected to something else that we don't have. She’s also physically
more powerful than a human. She is probably the most interesting
character that I've ever played and I really enjoyed doing the research
for her. Maybe I'll get to play her again.
TeenHollywood: Okay, the important question. If Quorra is a
program and Garrett's character Sam Flynn is human and they are hot for
each other, how is that going to work for a hook up?
Olivia: [laughing] I know! That's the looming question. They are almost
like siblings in a way. Quorra had been Flynn's companion and student
for hundreds of years inside the Grid. He's kind of adopted her. Two
hundred years there is like 20 years in the User world. He's adopted her
almost like a daughter and suddenly his son Sam has arrived. All Quorra
has wanted her entire life was to meet Sam Flynn. Just like we humans
don't really believe in the Tron world, those in the Tron world don't
really believe in humans. They could be a myth.
So she's believed in Sam Flynn in a way like you would believe in a God.
So, when he arrives, she's amazed and in awe but she needs to protect
him. She's discovering all these emotions and feelings of attraction and
love that she never understood. So, it remains to be seen what would
happen if they actually tried to procreate. We'll see!
Traduction par Jujualias
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