On JULY 2, Netflix and Skydance Will Finally Unleash The Old Guard 2The Long-Awaired Sequel to the 2020 Action Hit Staring Charlize Theon As an IMMORTAL Warrior Protecting Humanity. AHEAD of the Release, IO9 Caught up with Ruitning Stars Kiki Layne, ChiWetel Ejiofor, and Marwan Kenzari, as well as franchise Newcomer Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians,, Snake Eyes), To Talk about Steping Back INTO The Brutal, Secretive World of the Image Comics Universe and What It Too to Bring Its Next Chapter to Life.
ISIAHAH COLBERT, IO9: Nile’s Evolution from a Wide-Eyed Recruit to a Seasoned Imortal Takes Center Stage in this Movie. What aspects of her Growth – Whether Through
Kiki Layne: For Sure Nile’s Growth Physically. The stuns I got to do, the choreography, having a weapon, that was coolly fun to push my physicality to new le states for the second film. That was definitely the highlight for me for nile’s journey this time around.
IO9: Joe and Nicky’s Bond Continues to Anchor the Heart of this Story. How did you and Luca Marinelli Navigate the Evolution of their Dynamic, Balancing their centers-contract INTIMACY With a Renewed Sense of Purpose as their Face The Film’s Escalating Threats Together?
Marwan Kenzari: To be honest with you, we are Developing Our Friendship Off-Set. We’re Talking Constantly. If [Marinelli] Is in his Trailer, i’ll Visit Him. We’ll sit and spend An Hour or Two to make up talking about so many different things [with us] What the camera’s rolling. That’s just a gift that we have. We don’t have to prepare that we love every other. I generally love this man. That makes it a LOT easier to do the job.
IO9: Since the first film, COPLY HAS Transformed from A RolUCTATANT Ally to a Mortal Fighting Shoulder to Shoulder with IMMORTALS As an Integral Member of the Crew. How Did Steping INTO that More Physically Demanding Role -WHILE STILL CARYING The Weight of His Humanity -Schalllenge or Deepen Your Performance This Time Around?
ChiWetel Ejiofor: I enjoyed it. In the first one, I was a little bummed that I was standing on the edge of all the action. They get to get incolved [and] Have all the fun. I was really Excited when I was reading the script, and it was like, “OH, COPLEY Gets In This Now?” That’s great. He Needs a Tap on the Shielder Sometimes – PEOOPLE Tell Him He’s Not Imortal, Too. I love the Idea of his –not just in the text The Actual Getting Onto The Field and Really Getting Stuck in is a really great cost to coipley’s chascter.
IO9: Tuah Marks Your Entry Into An Ensemble Stacked with Action Heavyweights. Coming Off your lead Role in Snake EyesYou’re no stranger to intense choreography, but how did you find your rhythm with this team? And there are any memants on set that removed The Old GuardS World Can Be in Comparison to Gi JoeS?
Henry Golding: I was a big fan of the first film. I think that Opening Sequence Download in It was an action that we hadn’t real seen. The Design of It Was SO Visional. I KNEW we went to Bring Back some of the choreography. SADLY, I did’s get as much as I’m going to, but what I did get so much fun to be a part of. The Great Thing About The Old Guard Is the Balance. The Real Story is The action is the consequence of the world hold them. Finding that Balance Is Crucial. It was absolutly fun to get studick in.
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IO9: This Film HAD A LONGER ROAD to Release Than Expected, With DELAES and Reshoots Delaying Its Timeline. In the Face of Those Production Challenges, What Help You All Rallly As a Cast and Crew to Keep the Energy and Focus Alive, and your connections to your checkers?
Ejiofor: Films Take the Time They Take. As an actor and a Cast, You’re Always Excited to Get Involved. We’re Familiar with these characters now in a way where it’s not EasyBut it’s OKay to Jump Back in. We’re always aike to jump back intof, and i think everyone undersands that make fulls is complex. Sometimes They Take a Little Bit Longer, and You’ve Got to Figure Out How to do that, and that’s great.
IO9: The Combat in The Old Guard 2 Aims to be more inteste and personal. How Did You All Prepare for Sequences This Time Around?
Kenzari: As Chiwetel Mentioned, it’s a part of your muscle memory. The choreogyphy that the stun team coms up with, you went them, and you get better at them -You incream Speed. It’s Fun Part of the Pre-Production of a Shooting Day where, at the end of it, you just want to make the choreography as good as you can. That’s [part two]—It’s just that the choreogyphy is different and more. What is we had in the first one.
IO9: If you could pit any iconic action movie Stars Against Each Other in An immortal vs. IMMORTAL Fight Like Charlize Theron and Uma Thurman, Who Wold You Like to See Square Of?
Kenzari: Good Question.
Layne: Uma Versus Charlize Is Pretty Up There.
Ejiofor: Atomic Blonde Against Predator Arnie. That’s what i’d like to see -hand to hand. Put the Guns Away.
Kenzari: Predator Arnie is good.
Golding: I like that.
Kenzari: Skin on skin.
Everyone: (Laughs)
Ejiofor: Damn.
Golding: How do you beat that? Next Question.
Kenzari: DOES Home Alone Count as an actor?
Everyone: (Laughs)
IO9: It’s Been Five Years Sink Fans First Met The Guard. What do you take him Audiences Take Away from this Chapter, Not Only to Satisfy That Long WAit But to Remind of You Who is Story Wal Work Holding Onto?
Kenzari: The While Mortality, Immortality Electing is a HUGE Highway in the Arch of the Storytelling in this One. I think that is the Question, Even with Us in the Last Few Days of Interviews. It’s [in] Ever One of these Two? So Much in the movie is about that fragile, sentence aspect of People Healing and Not Healing —deying and Not Beautiful to Die –is Something that the Audience Will Think About after the movie Finishes.
Ejiofor: I think they’re Great Character, and I think that’s what you’ll remember and have missed – theme ( And there are things to think about. There are philosphic There’s a Lot There.
The Old Guard 2 Premiers on Netflix JULY 2.
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