Video:Luke Goss and Anna Walton Interview - Hellboy II
with Rebecca MurrayLuke Goss and Anna Walton star as siblings Prince Nuada and Princess Nuala in the second 'Hellboy' movie - 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army.' At the film's premiere, Goss and Walton talked about working in the 'Hellboy' world.
Transcript:Luke Goss and Anna Walton Interview - Hellboy II
Rebecca Murray from About.com Hollywood Movies at the Los Angeles Film Festival and Universal Pictures' World Premiere of Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
Luke Goss ('Prince Nuada')
Luke Goss: "I have to admit playing a bad guy that's written by this guy, Guillermo del Toro, it's not about money or ruling the world like that, this character's about honor. It's romance and love and heritage, and all the great things. You're never given just an A and a B with this guy or black and white. It's mysterious and beautiful. As an actor, the complexity of playing Nuada is wonderful."
You've worked with him before so how has he evolved over the years?
Luke Goss: "I worked with him in Blade 2. I played Nomak. You could see the filmmaker. Even after working with him on Blade, I was like every other filmmaker I worked with afterwards you kind of – his sureness when he's on set, his utter knowledge of what he's doing, and he's devoid of guesses – he knows what he's doing – I missed it. The second time working with him on Hellboy, he'd just come off the Academy Awards and all the nominations for Pan's Labyrinth, and I'm like, 'Okay.' He had a bit of a swagger, but never even close to arrogance. I've done a lot of movies and I think I've shown I can do them consistently and rightfully so they gave him the reins this time. And I was blessed to be a part of that."
How are Hellboy fans going to like this one? The first one was really accepted by them. Where does this one take it?
Luke Goss: "They're getting more. Like the first movie, for whatever reason, it didn't have wings, literally and metaphorically, to speak. And this one has a great deal of freedom, based upon Guillermo. And all of us really not doing anything but utterly respecting the genre and keeping the fans happy. There's more monsters, there's more action. There's more peripheral. The sets are more vivid. There's more color. It's more magnificent. Everything is bigger, but it's not gaudy. It's not like typical summer. It's just magnificent, I think."
What's the makeup process like for you because you don't look anything like your character?
Luke Goss: "This is makeup. I look like the other guy. This is five hours to get like this. That was five hours every day. You know why? It was very thin and tiny. You couldn't just put it on. It's millimeter by millimeter. So normally makeup speeds up. When I did Blade - that's the only other movie I've really done it on – it gets quicker. But this process, because it was so intricate, I didn't have a speeding up process. It was five hours a day."
Anna Walton ('Princess Nuala')
Anna Walton: "I think it's going to be bigger. It's going to be just more action, more color, more creatures, more monsters."
What was that makeup process like for you?
Anna Walton: "It was quite hard work. It was four hours but then I can't really complain because there were a lot of people who it was a lot worse for, like Ron [Perlman] for example or Doug [Jones]."
And at least your character's still pretty in the movie, don't you think so?
Anna Walton: "I do. Obviously I loved her and I think she was pretty in a very ethereal, otherworldly sense."
What's the appeal of a character like this for you?
Anna Walton: "Just sort of investigating that sort of fantasy world and otherworldly-ness, but still finding the truth and the fact that you can be somebody like that or a creature and actually we all still have the same hearts and the same soul."
And getting to work with Guillermo del Toro.
Anna Walton: "Getting to work Guillermo? You know, it was all right. No, that was definitely a bonus."