“I could have ruined it in that meeting,” the “Civil War” star recalled thinking.
“I saw it online before anyone told me,” Spaeny said.
“[I said] What?
Cailee Spaeny in ‘Alien: Romulus’.Everett
I got it?'
That this happened is insane.'”
“I didnt want anything in this movie to be impersonal or corporate,” he said.
Cailee Spaeny in ‘Priscilla’.Everett
“All of this cast, I wanted to tell them in person.”
Indeed, Alvarez previouslytold EWhe crafted the project with Spaeny in mind.
“I always knew it was going to be her.
I almost wrote the movie for her,” the filmmaker said in a recent interview with EW.
“In a way, she’s the audience.
That’s the big difference it makes when you bring in younger characters in their early 20s.
“Im really good at making things go wrong,” she said at SDCC.
“I could have ruined it in that meeting.
Like, ‘I wrote it for you!’
And then I said something awkward and strange.'”
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Elsewhere in the interview, Alvarez revealed that he used well-timed sound effects to frighten the cast while filming.
CostarIsabela Mercedsaid that sound ended up becoming a crucial element ofRomulus.
“I do love how you incorporated it into the movie,” she said.
The sound design is incredible.”
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