00:08I play a character named Janine Matthews, and she is the head of the Erudite faction, which is the faction,
00:17it's considered the Intelligence Faction.
00:26Each faction stands for a particular virtue, and Janine has a very scientific, intelligent mind, and it's her desire that
00:38Erudite will be the governing faction, whereas at the beginning of the story, the governing faction is abnegation.
00:44So she is doing everything that she can to attempt to sort of out them and take over, essentially take
00:51over the world. It's pretty much her goal.
00:53So she's a very clever but not necessarily nice piece of work.
01:05She's a master manipulator. I mean, it's a character that was created by Veronica Roth, so, you know, it's very
01:11much her brainchild.
01:12And it's been fascinating for me playing someone who is quite blatantly cunning and manipulative, because it's not really in
01:25my nature at all, and I've never really played an evil person before now.
01:31So it's been fascinating to try and get inside the mind of a person like that, who is almost like
01:39a, you know, she's almost like a Nazi, actually, in a way.
01:42You know, you could almost say that she's a sort of a female Hitler.
01:46You know, she wants to keep the faction system pure, in its purest form.
01:51So that means making sure that young people are absolutely making the right choice for them, the choice that they
01:58believe in, that is their true and possibly higher self.
02:02But she's also realized that there is such a thing as a divergent, and a divergent is an individual who
02:08has a strain of every single faction in their blood.
02:12And, of course, to Janine, divergents are not pure. They are really ruining the system.
02:18And the only way, of course, for the system to survive is to exterminate the divergents.
02:23So that is her master plan.
02:32The thing for me that was the most fascinating about this story is that we as human beings, we all
02:39want to account for something, come from somewhere, and to belong.
02:42Whether it's a family, a cult, a religion, a group of friends, whatever it is, we all want to belong
02:47somewhere.
02:48And that is what this film is about.
02:50It's about establishing these five different factions, families.
02:54And you have to choose to belong to one of them.
02:59And if you don't, or if you're cut from your faction, you are nobody.
03:02Which is, I think, everyone's fear.
03:04It's all of our fear, you know, that we would be ostracized from society, or friendship, or a class, or
03:08a group, or something.
03:10And we fear, you know, I think as human beings, we do naturally fear being left out or other people's
03:17judgment.
03:17You know, it's, and I think it's hard in the world that we live today with so much media exposure,
03:24I think, available to young kids, and so much in terms of the viral world and phones and iPads and
03:31all of this stuff, that pairing it all back and just being a person, being an individual, I think, is
03:38even more challenging for kids now than it was for me when I was 16 years old.
03:42And so, to me, this film is really striking because it's very much about belonging somewhere and making that choice
03:50and making that commitment.
03:51And there's a hell of a lot to be said for that.
03:52You know, there's very basic values.
03:53So that's why I think that it is, in some way, quite different to a lot of the franchise pieces
04:01that have been out in the last five years, because it has a very strong, fundamental, sort of moral message,
04:08I think, at its core.
04:09That doesn't necessarily mean it's better, it just means it's different.
04:12And for me, that was the most interesting thing about this.
04:15So, let's do this.
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