Amy Adams & Jeremy Renner - Arrival Exclusive Interview

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Stefan Pape from HeyUGuys interviews Amy Adams & Jeremy Renner for their movie Arrival for HeyUGuys.
The film comes from director Denis Villeneuve and is based on the short story 'Story of Your Life' by Ted Chiang.
During the interview they discuss working with the aliens on set and their upcoming DC and Marvel projects.
I'm gonna begin guys by saying I mean, I absolutely love the movie and I said to my mom
You've got to see a rival because it's absolutely brilliant. She said I was a sci-fi
I don't see that but this is so much more than a sci-fi isn't it?
So, please don't just sell it to me, but sell it sell it to my mom. Well, you sold it to your mom
So, thank you, but I do think that
Why being at the festivals and why?
You know really getting out and talking about the movie is so important because I do think word-of-mouth
It's gonna be what drives sort of the audience that I think is really gonna love the film and to see it and because it's
Not expected it it still gives you elements that you'll appreciate if you're into sci-fi
It has all the sci-fi elements, but it's got a deeper intimate feel to it as well
And it's got that great moment. There's so many great films have which is all I get it now
My where everything just kind of comes together
I was wondering did you remember feeling that when you first read the screenplay when you kind of realized what everything means?
I'm still trying to figure that out. But yes at the end of the picture. Yeah, there's a
I'll kind of make sense
Yeah, it's it's one of those things
That's what a rug for. Yeah. Yeah, I definitely had to go back and read it again
And it's interesting being doing interviews because I can tell some people still don't get it because of the question they ask and I can't
Correct them right and be like, no, no, no, that's not but because I don't want to you know
Yeah, and I don't usually like seeing the thing the monster
I mean, I remember I saw as the Mel Gibson Phil signs a few years ago, and I thought this is really good
And then we saw the alien look like Matt Stone and Trey Parker drawn it
I was like, yeah, I don't find it so scary
But we see the alien and it doesn't it's not detrimental at all to the audience
We when you first read the screenplay were you a little bit nervous at how it might be
Crafted how it might the design of it might look I mean you must have been quite thrilled when you saw kind of way
It did look I wasn't um, the aliens never felt
Even acting to the ball didn't feel like an impediment at all. It felt because of
Basically the relationship that we were creating what we were trying to do with them and
But I love what didn't he when he described it to me said I want it to feel familiar
and yet like nothing we've seen before that hasn't been presented to us before and so
It's not that we saw him a whole lot either in the film
It was in the fog and then you do kind of get the big reveal. Yeah, but
So, how are they seen short?
But did you have something in front of you to actually?
Act in front of was it all kind of green screen? So obviously there's that glass kind of
It wasn't it was just silk, right? It was kind of like a white
Big old movie screen with the guys in the tarts and long poles and like a little teeny beanbag
They kept tapping the screen with and there's something in Korea enough about that. It was easy to act up. I'm like, yeah
It's really quite actually almost beautiful something about it. I know I got a lot from personally I did too. It was really helpful
I always mention them because it was really helpful to have them there rather than just an ex to have something sort of moving in
organic
Behind it was really helpful
And if you guys were given the option to to maybe see what was happening in your own future
Maybe just even the immediate future. Would you ever sort of take anyone up on that offer? Would you prefer the spontaneity of life?
I'm not really interested in crystal balls
I'd like to know if I'm gonna get a good night's sleep tonight
Or maybe not because then they say no and you're like that
After seeing nocturnal animals, I can't imagine that's gonna happen anytime soon. Yeah. No, I definitely identify with insomnia
So yeah, but but no
And I'm gonna do a thing that I'm sure you love doing when you're promoting films as good as a rival
We're speaking about super movies because we have a representative obviously of the Marvel and DC Universe here today
Um, I just wondering obviously Man of Steel 2 is in development and Infinity War
I was only if when those kind of get started if you've had the chance to read scripts yet
Um, I read about Man of Steel 2 when you guys did so a lot of times I find out sort of
After that after the fact which is fine, it's completely normal. It's not indicative of anything. But um, but yeah
No, I've there. I I know they're working in a script and I know that it's
If I knew anything I still couldn't tell you but I don't know anything I know there's a failure
I know there's Avengers 3 & 4 happening. I mean, I don't know outside of my involvement or anything else
I can't tell you what if I'm dead in the first first one. I don't know, you know
I might be might already be dead. Am I already dead?
No, I'm not sure. Yeah, I know the writing and that I know that the talks of what it's about
sounded fantastic the Russo brothers have got a
some really great ideas and they're following certain
parts of the Infinity Wars and
It's some really exciting stuff man for a lot of the characters and especially for I know what they were thinking about doing with Hawkeye
especially
Thank you so much for time today
Hey you guys
