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Ain’t It Cool News sat down with the lovely Mary Elizabeth Winstead to discuss her upcoming movie “Scott Pilgrim VS. The World” as well as the prequel to The Thing film. Here’s an excerpt:
Quint: Wallace was more of a translation angle, like “Oh, I’m so glad that all of the humor from Wallace comes through and Kieran [Culkin] was perfect in the role,” but you, I think, had a little bit of a tougher job, because if you don’t buy Ramona that movie falls apart. Honestly the character is teetering on being somebody really despicable…
Mary Elizabeth Winstead: Yeah, absolutely. I definitely worried about that, to be honest. When I first took it on, it was sort of like “What do I do? I don’t want people to think she’s a bitch” and how do you play someone who doesn’t show their emotions? How do you play someone who is too guarded to ever let you know what they are thinking or feeling and still get across that they are human and they do have feelings? So, it was definitely the most challenging part I have ever had to play. I basically had to just constantly be feeling a lot of things and just bottle it up. Every scene I was in I was trying to bottle up whatever I was feeling.
To read the interview in it’s entirety, click here.
She’s in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, playing the comic book’s iconic, sullen, sexy punk Ramona, a woman who inspires such devotion that her exes challenge Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) to a series of over-the-top brawls before he is worthy of her.
And she just finished filming a remake of the horror classic, The Thing. “Great cast, great scary story, I am dying for that one to come out.”
“Oh I HOPE so,” she says, giggling. ” I would hope to be the darling of any movie fan group, let me tell you. That’s something I’d be happy to embrace. I hope I live up to their expectations for Ramona. And I hope this movie brings more great roles my way. Maybe another movie fanboys will love. Bruce Willis is always talking about another Die Hard (she played the daughter in the last one). So you never know.”
More from my interview with her later this week.
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Every once in a while, a girl comes along who’s destined to get fanboys’ lightsabers humming; a girl who is worth writing poetry, and computer code, for; a girl whose praises will be screamed to the heavens — usually over an Xbox headset. This summer, that girl is Mary Elizabeth Winstead, the 25-year-old who plays cool cat Ramona Flowers in Friday’s “Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World.”
Nerds, meet your new crush.
Winstead is likely to join a long list of geek goddesses, going all the way back to Uhura on “Star Trek” in the ’60s and Lindsay Wagner as “The Bionic Woman” in the ’70s. And Winstead is just fine with that.
“I think the fanboy mentality is that they gravitate toward women who seem more approachable or open,” says Andrew Serwin, features editor at Wizard, a magazine covering comic books and pop culture. “Mary Elizabeth Winstead was in ‘Die Hard 4’ and [romanced] Justin Long, who’s not the leading-man-type character. He’s a computer nerd. That’s what the fanboy looks for. She’s giving that guy the time of day.”
Winstead’s Ramona Flowers in “Scott Pilgrim” also doesn’t go in for the leading-man type. She’s dating Michael Cera’s character, a guy so spindly he’d lose an arm-wrestling match to one of the Olsen twins.
“Ramona is a different kind of dream girl,” Winstead says. “She’s not your typical blonde hair, big boob, hair-flowing-in-slow-motion kind of girl.”
No, she’s the kind of girl who dyes her hair a different wild color every week and a half, wears combat boots and fingerless gloves, is aloof and has a sarcastic sense of humor.
“I couldn’t really put the pressure on myself to think that Ramona is physical perfection incarnate,” Winstead says. “There’s something about her, something that emanates from her that makes her attractive to people.
Without Ramona Flowers and Knives Chau, there would be no Scott Pilgrim. The two main ladies in Scott’s life, played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Ellen Wong respectively, are Scott’s raison d’etre in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Ramona is the spunky newcomer with whom Scott becomes so infatuated, he’s willing to fight her seven evil exes. Knives is a cute, innocent high schooler that Scott is dating at the beginning of the film and eventually helps him discover who he really is.
Wong and Winstead sat down to talk about their characters, working with Edgar Wright, Die Hard 5, The Thing prequel, the alternate ending and much more. You know you want to hit the jump to read all about it.
It’s a lengthy interview, but nonetheless, click here to read the interview.
The colorful, comic book and video-game-based comedy actioner Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World is chocked full of kick butt, strong and outspoken women. Two of them, quirky Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) whose hair color changes almost daily and high schooler Knives Chow (Ellen Wong), who is overly exuberant about well… everything, are both in love with nerdy but cute Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) who plays in a band and ends up fighting all seven of Ramona’s “evil exes” while trying to let Knives down easy.
We’re interviewing Mary and Ellen on the lot at Universal Studios in L.A. and it’s a really candid and fun gurlchat. Ellen admits that, during a martial arts fight, she actually cut Mary’s face (and Mary is okay with it), both girls worked amazingly hard on training and executing all the stunt-heavy action and both ladies say they loved their fashion forward looks in the fantasy/action film. Both girls are spilling their fave Michael Cera moments from set as well!
Click here to read the full interview!
While not too many photos are available, I have been able to find and upload a few pictures of Mary at Thursday night’s Toronto premiere of Scott Pilgrim that took place at the Elgin Winter Garden Theatre.
Click the thumbnails below to see them all in the gallery!
The cast and director of the movie “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World” sat down with Cinemax for an exclusive interview. Check it out below.
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