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UNDERWATER STILLS!!

posted 5 years ago by Mody (183)
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EW has Exclusive look at UNDERWATER!! It looks so good honestly

https://ew.com/movies/2019/08/18/exclusive-first-look-underwater-kristen-stewart/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

[–] Ron2011 (907) 5 years ago

Interesting comments by Kristen, where she talks about working in the heavy suits. Also says it is one of the bigger films she has done. I like this kind of movie story anyways, so doubly looking forward to seeing it. Thanks Mody!

I remember when Emily Blunt and Tom Cruise talked about the making of Edge of Tomorrow and how the suits they wore were so heavy!

[–] LLOwens (983) 5 years ago

I remember when Emily Blunt and Tom Cruise talked about the making of Edge of Tomorrow and how the suits they wore were so heavy!

IMO, Edge of Tomorrow is easily one of the best sci-fi actioners released in the past 5 years, Ron.

Blunt, who weights approximately 115 pounds, on her 5'7" frame, was required to wear this 85 pound suit for five months of shooting. In response to her saying how difficult this was, leading her to tears, Tom Cruise jokingly told her, "Stop being such a wuss."

I'm wondering if Cruise's response came before or after Emily nearly killed him, during the shooting of a scene where she drove a minivan, with Cruise in the passenger seat, into a tree. It was also said that Tom Cruise also did all his own stunts. But then again, the real title of this film is Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow, so even the main actors, while they were being filmed, seem to have had nine lives, so to speak.

[–] LLOwens (983) 5 years ago

My first impression, looking at those stills, elicited feelings of watching a crew aboard a spaceship in outer space about to venture into the great unknown (i.e., Alien Covenant, Event Horizon, Prometheus, Interstellar, Moon, Passengers, Solaris, Sunshine, The Martian) as far as the demeanor of the actors and in terms of the atmosphere and ambience. I guess, even though the story is set here on Earth, underwater, what they are about to discover is unknown as well.

I think none of us in the movie — except for maybe Vincent [Cassel], who’s, like, a f—ing wild banshee — really knew what we were getting ourselves into. And that’s where there’s some comedy in the movie every once in a while; in the most dire situations you kind of laugh in a funeral. That’s kind of what it felt like to make the movie as well. Like we were all dying!

Speaking of a "wild banshee", "the most dire situations", and "all dying", I recently watched Mesrine Part 2: Public Enemy #1, where Vincent Cassel plays the titular role of a psychopathic gangster, and I think I know what Kristen meant when she referred to him as a "wild banshee", for although his character was at times likeable, as he was cool, intelligent and a ladies man, he would often morph into a ferocious wild animal if anyone stood in the way of what he wanted. And it wasn't just his cold ferocity that impressed me--his screen presence and chemistry with his costars was off the charts.

In a way his magnetism reminds me of Kristen's deft ability to deeply affect everyone who gravitates around her character onscreen. And the French would probably agree, as Cassel won a Best Actor Cesar award for his performance in the two Mesrine films which he starred in, similar to how Kristen became the first American actress to have ever won a Cesar. Imagine, two Cesar award winning actors, both with intensity to spare, in each other's faces in claustrophobically confined spaces, while coming face-to-face with death and the unimaginable.

Anyhow, thanks Mody for keeping us up to date on the news of this film.