I think Maria gets her moments in the movie. I mean, I'd love to throw a photon blast, just in general life. When you have such a wonderfully rounded, strong character, is there any disappointment that you don't also get to shoot some photo blasts yourself or be the one to have superpowers in a superhero movie? I think it's a nice setup for Monica, in that you see exactly where she gets her strength from. You've got a woman who is strong and bold and fearless and is very unapologetic and has trained for so long to just be accepted in her male-dominated environment, and then you have a single mother who's actually proud of being a single mother and doesn't really need the support to be able to raise a child to become a superhero. The feelings were feelings that I still hold to this day, in that the more I learned about fighter pilots and the more I thought about what kind of single mother I wanted to represent, I realized that those were her superpowers. If you remember now, what were those feelings? And you said you had " feelings," but you didn't know. I was on set last year and when we sat down with you, we talked about how Monica grows up to be a superhero and we asked if Maria had any of those super-qualities about herself. It was just a nice, almost, like, tiny little indie in a big franchise. And literally what you see on the screen is what we did. She's so very authentic, works very hard and was very much in-sync with what I wanted to represent in this movie, so I feel like we just talked. We literally were just having conversations onscreen, and I think because we were filming that literally right at the end of the movie, we'd gone through such a nice journey, that it was actually quite nice to finish on that kind of connection with the two best friends. I think the nice thing about working with someone who wants the same thing as you - in that we want to represent women in their fullest, in all of their glory and just being authentic and unapologetic - it didn't ever feel like me and Brie had to sit each other down and talk about what we're going to portray and, like, how we're going to make this scene real. Thank you, thank you very much.īecause this is an origin story in reverse, starting at a place where you already have to have a deep connection that we haven't seen develop on-screen, what did you have to do to get there with Brie before filming? Or are there shortcuts to get there?
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