Meet the Actress Who Had to Don Princess Leia's Buns in Rogue One
Germain Lussier
Tuesday 12:30pm
Ingvild Deila had one of the most important roles in
Rogue One, but you’ve probably never heard of her. The Norwegian actress was the person on set whose face
was turned into the young Carrie Fisher’s for the film’s climactic scene. While most
Star Wars actors aren’t allowed to say much about the films, Deila was sworn to total silence—she couldn’t even say she’d been hired—but now she’s finally speaking out about the role.
The UK-based actress just gave her first interview to journalist Jamie Stangroom. Here it is in its entirety but, we’ll discuss some highlights below.
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So if you didn’t watch the interview, Deila auditioned for the part without knowing what it was. She just was asked to speak for three minutes about something and be a specific size. It wasn’t until after she found out she got the part that she realized something was odd about it.
“I realized what was actually happening because I was sent two scenes from
A New Hope, when Leia meets Vader for the first time, and the hologram monologue,” she said. “I was like ‘Oh my god is this happening?’ Those buns are big. I had the hairy buns. And I had plenty of dots all over my face, like an exotic fish. I looked very strange”
She studied the scenes for a weekend, filmed it, and then waited 18 months for the film to be released before revealing it was her under the work of ILM. In the meantime, people were talking about the film, getting excited for the film, but she was the biggest surprise in the film. She couldn’t say anything.
Stangroom asked Deila about the ethics of digitally recreating a famous actor, which was a big debate when the film was released, and she had a pretty even headed disposition about it.
“I was just thinking ‘What if it was me? How would I feel?’ If they had to pay my living relatives or something, or forced to share the money, then yeah... I mean I’m dead, I don’t care. We just need to establish a system where we do it right by their relatives or what they agreed on.”
Of course, when Deila took the role, Carrie Fisher wasn’t dead. Deila was excited to hear that Fisher liked the performance but also admits, if Fisher had passed away earlier, she may have had reservations.
“It would have been more difficult to say yes,” Deila said. “Also it depends whether she’d been informed. If she was against it then I don’t know if I would have said yes. But if she was fine with it, maybe yeah. It’s hard to know. It would have been way more complicated.”
There’s even more in the interview, including her thoughts on a potential Leia spinoff movie. You can see Deila when
Rogue One hits digital March 24 and Blu-ray April 4.
Fonte:
http://io9.gizmodo.com/meet-the-actress-who-had-to-don-princess-leias-buns-in-1793257284
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Darth Vader's Big Rogue One Scene Barely Made It Into the Film
Katharine Trendacosta
Wednesday 12:20pm
One of the biggest highlights of
Rogue One—maybe the biggest—is when the Dark Lord of the Sith boards the doomed Rebel ship that’s trying to get the Death Star plans to Princess Leia’s Tantive IV. But it turns out the scene was conceived at practically the last minute.
We know, of course, that the ending to
Rogue One went through a lot of changes. We’ve seen a number of scenes from the trailer that didn’t make the final cut, and we’ve seen behind-the-scenes footage of deaths that changed completely. But the Darth Vader scene is one so full of action and effects, you’d kind of expect that it was planned out and shot far in advance.
Not so, says director Gareth Edwards in an interview with
Fandango. We’ve known for a bit that the scene was
added later, but Edwards shares more details, including exactly how late it was and how fast they had to film:
He arrives and obliterates the Calamari ship, and then the blockade runner gets out just in time and he pursues the blockade runner. And then [editor] Jabez [Olssen] was like, ‘I think we need to get Darth on that ship,’ and I thought, yeah, that’s a brilliant idea and would love to do it, but there’s no way they’re going to let us do it. It’s a big number and we had, what, like three or four months before release. Kathy [Kennedy] came in and Jabez thought, fuck it, and pitched her this idea, and she loved it. Suddenly within a week or two, we were at Pinewood shooting that scene.
Only four months before the release date and only
at most two weeks to plan! That’s pretty ridiculous.
A persistent rumor has been that the original ending had Darth Vader confronting—and possibly killing—our heroes on the beaches of Scarif. This made more sense when the ending had the team reuniting after getting the plans and then making a separate journey to a new location to transmit them. In the final film, everyone stays separated, and the place where the data is stored and the place it’s sent from were merged into one location. Since the team was no longer fighting together, no single storyline really warranted an appearance by Darth Vader anymore.
Edwards added that he felt the new corridor scene was “the greatest hits of Darth,” and that he literally sent the stunt team off to do whatever they could think of, and then he did some editing. “They came up with a whole shopping list of ideas. Seventy percent we used, and maybe 30 percent felt a little too extreme. They were things you hadn’t seen him do before, and I wanted to stick to what Darth does in the original trilogy.” In a way, the scene is pure fanservice, but in the best possible way.
Next time you watch
Rogue One, think about the idea that there were ideas “too extreme” for it. Hard to believe, isn’t it?
Fonte:
http://io9.gizmodo.com/darth-vaders-big-rogue-one-scene-barely-made-it-into-th-1793296029
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Here's a Cool Glimpse at How Translators Made Rogue One: Una Historia de Star Wars
Beth Elderkin
3/05/17 2:00pm
Translation is one of the toughest jobs in Hollywood— especially when you’re dealing with one of the most popular franchises in the world.
Remezcla and NPR’s
Latino USA recently released a neat breakdown of how
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was translated into Spanish... and the history behind R2-D2's infamous Latin American moniker.
During the profile, Katya Ojeda, the translator behind many Latin American versions of
Star Wars films, shared how it wasn’t easy converting
Rogue One into Spanish. Since
Star Wars is one of the hottest things out there, and Disney is always wary of leaks, the translators and actors never actually got to see the movie while working on it. Instead, Ojeda had to translate from a rotoscoped version of the film. The entire screen was in black, and when the actors talked, little “bubbles” would open up so she could observe the lip movements. She said the script was only available on one computer, and there was no way to access it outside of working hours.
When it came to the actual voice acting, the actors had to rely on acting cues from dubbing director Héctor Gómez Gil, since he was the only one who actually got to see the film beforehand. Well... with one exception. Turns out, Diego Luna
voiced his own character, Cassian Andor, for the Latin American version of the film.
Another challenge surrounds the specific terms that are unique only to
Star Wars. Nowadays, Disney and Lucasfilm will send all translators a list of terms they’re supposed to use, like sable de luz instead of lightsaber. That’s mainly so they can coordinate with marketing and toy development. However, that wasn’t always the case, or at least it wasn’t as enforced. One of the most famous translations is the use of Arturito instead of R2-D2— a name many Latin American
Star Wars fans still use fondly, even though it’s been updated for the newer films.
Fonte:
http://io9.gizmodo.com/heres-a-cool-glimpse-at-how-translators-made-rogue-one-1792987458
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Gareth Edwards Used VR to Direct Rogue One's Digital Scenes
Beth Elderkin
2/25/17 3:15pm
If there’s anything
Star Wars fans know about Gareth Edwards, it’s that he’s a
very hands-on director. A recent demonstration shows how Industrial Light and Magic found a way to bring Edwards’ physical camerawork to the digital stage for
Rogue One, using virtual reality.
BBC Click shared a visit to ILM London to get a behind-the-scenes peek at
Rogue One’s digital prowess, in the wake of its Visual Effects Oscar nomination. During the interview, computer graphics supervisor Steve Ellis discussed how much ILM admired Edwards’ ability to get physical with his camerawork on set, and revealed that the visual effects advisor wanted him to be able to do that digitally.
So, they created what Ellis called a real-time virtual reality system, which was basically an iPad hooked up to an HTC Vive virtual reality controller. They’d pull up a digital scene for him, like the Star Destroyer’s scary reveal at the newly constructed Death Star. Then, using Steam VR tracking, Edwards would physically move the screen around, pinpointing what angle he’d want the shot to begin at and where he would want it to end up. The VFX artists would map out the scene’s progression to match.
“He would walk around and decide where he wanted the shots to start and end,” Ellis said. “This was how Gareth was filming, moving around and finding interesting framing.”
This kind of filmmaking isn’t new. Peter Jackson
used a form of augmented reality to direct VFX shots for
Lord of the Rings, and a lot of advancements in
simulcam tech were developed for James Cameron’s
Avatar. However,
Rogue One’s VR work is something else entirely... mainly because it’s so accessible. Thanks to the advancements in virtual reality, ILM was able to rig a basic tablet to a consumer-grade VR device and digitally direct a multi-million dollar picture. Director Jon Favreau said he’ll be using similar VR tech for
digital site scouting and shot planning for the live-action
The Lion King movie.
It’s kind of incredible how VR you could purchase at Best Buy helped make the movie such a success.
Rogue One’s final battles are some of the most dynamic scenes in
Star Wars history, digital or physical. Edwards may have been using a fake camera, but the movie magic was entirely real.
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Fonte:
http://io9.gizmodo.com/gareth-edwards-used-vr-to-direct-rogue-ones-digital-sce-1792747692