Video:Delphine Chaneac Splice Interview
with Rebecca MurrayDelphine Chaneac looks nothing like her character in 'Splice' - and that's a good thing. Chaneac takes on the role of a fascinating creature named Dren in the sci-fi thriller, and she talked about getting into the part at the film's LA premiere.
Transcript:Delphine Chaneac Splice Interview
Rebecca Murray from About.com Hollywood Movies at the LA Premiere of Warner Bros Pictures' Splice.
Delphine Chaneac - 'Dren' in Splice
You look gorgeous - so different in the movie.Delphine Chaneac: "I hope so."
I think it's very interesting that her movements are so bird-like. How did you do that?
Delphine Chaneac: "I don't know, really. I work in front of the mirror and I think I understand what Dren could be. And I made my own opinion about her, and I tried to make the feeling every day more and more intense. I worked on that. I worked more physically first of all and after that I worked more mentally for the feelings, for the love, for the pain...everything. I worked a lot with the stunt guy to prepare my body. Like, 'Wow,' I could not recognize my body. When I saw the movie the first time I was like, 'What the hell! It's not my body!' But they told me, 'We did not touch your body.' I was like, 'Okay...' I didn't know I was so massive. I'm massive in the movie but I didn't recognize my neck, my shoulder, my legs. That was weird."
Was it more difficult for you to get into her mentally or physically? What was the hardest?
Delphine Chaneac: "Both of them, because sometimes it physically was so intense, my body was tired but my mind would work. But sometimes it doesn't work because you have to be together. And sometimes, I'm not a stunt girl and I did all the stunts in the movie. I did everything in the movie, and I'm not stunt girl."
And you had to do it all with your eyes and how you look because you don't talk in this.
Delphine Chaneac: "No. Yeah, that was... At the same time that was a very interesting part of the character because you have to give the information and the feelings to the audience like so fast. You have to be all the time very precise and focused on what you have to do. And there's so many constraints for the body. For example, the hands, the legs, the tail, you have to know where they move, how they can move. And I worked a lot with Bob Munroe, the guy who made the effects. But that was a little bit like you have to imagine - I'm not a nerd, I didn't work on the computer and I know nothing about that - and I have to understand how to make it work. So that was sometimes a little bit to understand how Dren can move because there's some movements she can not do that, so that was a little bit sometimes like my mind was a little bit upside-down. But that was okay."
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