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Zack Snyder and his wife Deborah Synder tell THR on the red carpet what made Sofia Boutella the perfect Kora for 'Rebel Moon.'

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00:00You were telling us how you had this idea for Rebel Moon back when you were at Art

00:03Center.

00:04How does it feel to now finally be premiering this movie?

00:08It feels amazing.

00:09Look, it was a super long shoot because we did the two movies together.

00:14So I mean, the one thing is that on a normal premiere like this, you're like, oh my gosh,

00:19this is amazing.

00:20Now go rest.

00:21But I got to go to work tomorrow because I got to finish two.

00:26So that part is a little bit difficult from a physical standpoint, but the adrenaline

00:33and the excitement is really, I'm actually excited to go to work because I really want

00:38everybody to see a movie too.

00:39So that's really fun.

00:41For you, what has it been like seeing this project evolve over the years and become what

00:46it is now?

00:47Well, it was so many things over the years.

00:49It was a video game.

00:50It was a TV show.

00:52It was a movie.

00:53Then it was nothing for a while.

00:57It almost was Star Wars.

00:58And then it became this.

01:01And it's been amazing to do something wholly original, especially after working over a decade,

01:06you know, in the DC universe for so long.

01:09To be able to have the freedom to create these new characters and new worlds to introduce an

01:13audience to, I think has been most exciting.

01:17When you create a new world and build a world out like this, where do you start?

01:21Well, we start with story, of course.

01:24But then the next thing that happens is we have to go back and do the work of the mythological

01:30world building, which sort of determines the sort of mindset of the different people.

01:38So, like, when we did, like, we did the mother world entire mythological backstory so that

01:43we would understand their worldview when they come to Veldt.

01:46So, yeah, it's a lot of, a lot of stuff you don't even frankly see in the movie, but work

01:51we had to do to make it make sense.

01:52But I think that's what the fans love because it's all the Easter eggs.

01:55And it's the, we developed, like, four different languages for the film.

01:59So, seeing, like, oh, what is that writing or what is behind this corner?

02:03Like, it just makes it feel real, the world.

02:07What are you most excited for your fans to see in this movie?

02:10I think one of the things I'm super excited for them to see is just this, this crazy character

02:16of Korra that we created who's just, Sofia does an amazing job and just going on that

02:23journey with her and seeing what she's capable of and even just emotionally what she could

02:27come back from, the kind of, like, you know, she's on this cathartic journey and I hopefully,

02:33you know, we're on it with her and see her grow, you know, it's really, it's really cool.

02:39How did you know that Sofia would make the perfect Korra?

02:44You know, I wanted her from the beginning, but then when she was, when she was doing

02:50the casting, we did a casting session with her, a little audition, and she, well, frankly,

02:58when she did the scene, it was unbelievable, it was exactly what I'd wanted.

03:03And then when we did the fight choreography as just a test, she was so natural and so

03:09quick.

03:10I was just like, okay, this, this is going to be fun.

03:13Yeah, it was important to believe that she was actually this badass warrior.

03:19So she had to sell that and also sell the drama and that's a really hard thing to do.

03:24And she did all of her stunts except one where we had to throw her off the side of

03:29a scaffolding and we didn't think that was safe, but everything else she did all herself

03:33and that's so unique.

03:34So you're not covering someone's, you know, face because it's a stunt person and you don't

03:39want to recognize them.

03:40So I think that, in that way, she really sells it that much more.

03:44And Zach, I heard you have a photography book coming out when we shot.

03:48Yes.

03:49A portrait book.

03:50I shot of, I shot portraits of everyone, every cast member, like all the time.

03:55We built this like little sort of natural light photo studio on the stage and on location.

04:01And I would just take them and they were covered with blood or whatever.

04:03I go, okay, quick, run in here and shoot them.

04:06And it's just a really sort of beautiful document of the work that we did.

04:11When you shot your Hollywood Reporter cover, we saw a lot of those photos in your office.

04:15So excited to see more of your photography be available for people to purchase.

04:19Yeah, it's exciting.

04:20I mean, you know, it's been kind of this private love of mine, but, you know, just being able

04:25to shoot this cast was really something I had to show everybody.

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