Édgar Ramírez chats with THR at the 'Borderlands' premiere and talks about his sturggles playing the game before filming the movie. Plus, he dishes on working with Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis.
00:00What was it like working with Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis on this movie?
00:03Oh, fantastic. I mean, these ladies have so much of the best sense of humor that you can ever imagine.
00:11I mean, it's incredible. They were so welcoming and warm, both of them.
00:16And Jamie was basically the glue that kept us together throughout the shoot.
00:22You know, she's so welcoming and warm and she makes everyone feel so comfortable and welcome, you know, and that allowed us to become very close, very close.
00:34And we were all in each other's lives. We all became friends.
00:37You know, this is a gigantic movie.
00:39It is something that normally doesn't happen in a movie this size because people are busy, because, you know, it's hundreds and hundreds of people on set.
00:46But it felt very intimate. We were all really playing.
00:49We all turned into kids and we played.
00:52And that's an actor's dream, because in a way, we all have Peter Pan syndrome.
00:57You know, we all want to be kids forever.
00:59I mean, can you imagine that you make a living out of believing that you're someone else?
01:03You know, it's somewhere between madness and the most fun thing that you can ever imagine.
01:08What was your experience with playing the game before taking on the role?
01:11Well, that was different because I'm not a gamer.
01:14So that was tough for me.
01:16But now I'm really paying attention.
01:18I'm really paying attention because I think that some of the most provocative content in entertainment
01:21is happening in the world of video gaming.
01:23So I think that a movie like Borderlands is a perfect interface between that world and the rest of us, you know, the rest of the world.
01:30But now I belong to this world because I'm right in the now.
01:33Now this movie has introduced me to the world of video gaming in the best way as possible.
01:37It's such a colorful film to see on the big screen.
01:40What was it like stepping on set and being in this crazy, colorful world of Pandora?
01:44It was really something because the sets were incredible and the extras, the wardrobe, it was really...
01:52And also I had the chance to work with everyone in the film.
01:56So that was also actually my first scene.
01:58It's almost like a space opera.
02:00Like I walked, like my first scene, you know, like the first one that I shot.
02:04And suddenly I walked into this gigantic set with hundreds of extras, hundreds of crew, and the entire cast there.
02:10And I'm like, people who knew each other already because I was the last one to join the, to join the,
02:15because, you know, for schedule conflict, I, I, my, my, my, my scenes were shot at the very end of the, of the shoot.
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