When we felt like we weren’t going to be able to complete the movie to the level we wanted to complete it from a visual effects standpoint, we considered moving it from November to February.

One, November was always a very ambitious release date for us, given how many visual effects and how complex the visual effects in this film were going to be. She would walk around whether it was London or New York with headphones in her ears, with just voices playing in her head so she would experience what it was like to live in the world we live in but hear voices that are there, and how that would be maddening for even the sanest of all of us.ĭark Phoenix was originally supposed to come out in November, and now you’re slated for June. Sophie did a ton of research on schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder. As much as the X-Men are fractured, Jean herself is fractured, obviously. When we were preparing, one of the things I said to her was I wanted to explore schizophrenia with the character.

Sophie is definitely a lovely and very happy, well-adjusted person in real life, but knows plenty of people and has been around plenty of darkness and could tap into that. There’s a lot more handheld and a lot more close-ups and a lot more of a feeling of intimacy, and with that comes a certain level of intensity because you feel the characters’ emotions and anger more than you would in these big wide shots. One of the things I wanted to do with this movie cinematically was be in with the characters more. You really tap into her ferociousness in this. So much of this trailer is Sophie looking intense and intimidating.

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