00:00Watching it on the big screen with an audience and just seeing it in all its glory and all the
00:04attention to detail, it just makes you appreciate and understand why it takes so long to make these
00:09movies. Because I'm like, damn, too, animation takes like two to five years? What is all this?
00:15And then just knowing the research that they put into it, the thousands of animators that
00:20they work with, it's insane how intricate. And then to see the audience just feel it and take
00:26it all in and understand it, because we throw a lot at you.
00:30Thank you so much, Issa. I'm Revae Rupp with Essence. Thank you for taking the time today.
00:37Thank you for taking the time. My pleasure.
00:40Awesome. I did want to just jump off by asking, prior to signing on for being in this particular
00:47film, how big of a comic book or Marvel fan were you? Like, was it something you were familiar
00:51with or did you have to kind of acquaint yourself?
00:54Yeah, I was actually a massive Spider-Man fan. So it was really exciting to get the call
00:59to be a part of it. And yeah, I had read a couple of other like comic books, but Spider-Man
01:05was my bag, like all the lore. I've seen all the live action movies and Into the Spider-Verse.
01:12So it was just like, tell me what to do. Let me tag me in.
01:18Absolutely. And of course, you're playing this character in probably one of the more
01:21non-traditional ways you can. She's got, you know, long flowing natural hair. She doesn't wear a
01:27costume at all. Everybody knows who she is. And she's seven or eight months pregnant. So what was it
01:32like to kind of put that spin on Spider-Woman in a way a lot of audiences who maybe are not as familiar
01:38with the source material have ever seen before?
01:40I mean, in a lot of ways, like those character traits either fit me or, you know, I'm deeply
01:47familiar with outside of the pregnancy. So I think the pregnancy part was the most
01:52daunting part of it. And I really applaud the filmmakers for just making their own character.
02:00You know, they took elements from different parts of the Jessica Drew series, the Spider-Woman series,
02:05and, you know, that specific pregnancy arc storyline really feeds into the movie as a whole to the
02:12to the relationship between Gwen and Spider-Woman and Jessica Drew. So, like, that part just felt like
02:21it came natural to me. It was just more adjusting to, like, what her voice, what she sounds like,
02:26and how she presents herself, her confidence.
02:29And was it like having to, I know you've done some voice acting in the past,
02:33like, what is it having to kind of adjust your acting style to do it purely vocal?
02:39Yeah, that's, I mean, obviously, you have to rely more on your instrument and your vocal instrument.
02:43And, like, I'm such a big facial expression person. So, like, not feeling certain that they'd be able to
02:55replicate that on screen was like, oh, I wonder how they're gonna, how they're gonna make her look
03:00while saying this? Or will this come across? Just because, you know, some of the vocal work
03:05I've done in the past has been very specific. And this is just, you know, has to help and carry a
03:12movie. So it was a challenge, but it was so much fun. And it's so much fun to see
03:20on the big screen, just to see it all come together. I thought the filmmakers did an incredible job.
03:25And what was it like for you to finally, like, see that with a live audience?
03:30With a live audience? Yeah, my first time was just at the premiere. And it was great. You know,
03:34I watched the screener by myself on my computer. And I still thought it was amazing. But watching
03:40it on the big screen with an audience and just seeing it and all its glory and all the attention
03:45to detail, it just makes you appreciate it. I understand why it takes so long to make these
03:50movies. Because I'm like, damn, too, animation takes like two to five years? What is all this?
03:56And then just knowing the research that they put into it, the thousands of animators that they work
04:01with, it's insane how intricate. And then to see the audience just feel it and take it all in and
04:07understand it, because we throw a lot at you, was really satisfying.
04:11I know that these films especially are kind of notorious for having these big reactions in the theater.
04:15Um, I guess without giving spoilers away, what was one of the biggest reactions that you got from
04:20the crowd, like that you saw that the crowd had that was like kind of surprising for you?
04:24Uh, we have a cameo appearance that really gets people excited. Um, and I got to see that firsthand.
04:32And there were a couple cameos, there were a couple cameos, um, that elicited very big reactions.
04:39And then, you know, you could tell who's also just a comic book nerd. So when certain versions of
04:43Spider-Man appear, um, in different multiverses, people were really excited and had laughs.
04:49All right. My last question, since it deals a lot with the multiverse and different versions of
04:55the characters, whatever, if there's a multiverse Issa, what do you think she's doing right now?
05:01Multiverse Issa is always eating. Like that's just, um, my love language. She's being fed,
05:09um, and, and on a beach, like fed, being fed by the beach, um, with a libation in hand is honestly,
05:19that's, that's like a heaven multiverse for me.
05:22That was good to me. I think we'd all like to be in that multiverse.
05:24Amen. Amen. Thank you again for your time today.
05:27Thank you so much.
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