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Comicus.it conducted a phone interview with Mary on her role in Scott Pilgrim. Read an excerpt below:
Hello Mary Elizabeth and welcome on ComicUs. Shall we start with the interview right now or do we have to defeat your seven evil ex-interviewer first…?
[Laughs] I think I’m going to give you the permission to start the interview, there won’t be any evil exes come calling.
Did you know the comic book by Bryan Lee O’Malley before taking the part? Did Edgar Wright recommend you all to read it as starting material or did he prefer you to concentrate on the script of the film version?
I read the books because Edgar Wright introduced me to them. I had a meeting with him and he told me he was going to be adapting these books to a film and thought I should take a look at them. So I went home and had the first three books, because that was how many were out at this time and I was blown away. I just thought, you know, EW combining that source materials would be such an amazing combination and I was so excited of being part of that project.
You have been involved in different action and fighting scenes too, were they hard scenes to perform?
Well, it was really challenging, and we trained for a few months together every day, eight hours a day, doing fight choreography and trainings. And we worked with an amazing stunt team who really wanted to bring out the best from us, and they kinda would watch out how it works and what work at it and what wont’ work at it. So in the end I was really able to do everything; it was really empowering to be in front of the camera and to be able to do all the stuffs. Too exciting.
To read the full interview, click HERE. (*Note: Scroll down until you reach the English version near the bottom).