Video:Terminator Salvation - Moon Bloodgood Interview at WonderCon
with Rebecca MurrayMoon Bloodgood says she not only gets to get physical in 'Terminator Salvation,' which she absolutely loved doing, but also gets to show off her softer side in this fourth film of the 'Terminator' franchise.
Transcript:Terminator Salvation - Moon Bloodgood Interview at WonderCon
Rebecca Murray from About.com Hollywood Movies at the 2009 WonderCon.
Moon Bloodgood – 'Blair Williams' in Terminator Salvation
You don't look like this in the movie.Moon Bloodgood: "Well, my hair's curly. I don't really have the sort of makeup. I toned it down because it is post-apocalyptic. I don't think you get a makeup artist when you have no good and shelter."
Now she gets to kick some ass in this. How much fun is that?
Moon Bloodgood: "I love being physical. I think nothing excites me more… I think one of the things that excites me is getting to play a woman who's strong and tough, but not having a chip on her shoulder. But someone who can just fight for the resistance, not seen as a woman or a man, Asian or white, but just seen as someone who's competent, flies a plane, can defend herself – but at the same time is vulnerable and wants a man to hold her, you know? It's a masculine/feminine thing. There's moments when you see her get really tender with Marcus [played by Sam Worthington] but you also see her be tough. She's not the weeping type, but she's not above being fragile."
Are most of the female characters in this new universe tough?
Moon Bloodgood: "You know, I would say Bryce [Dallas Howard's] character as Kate Connor is tough. Yeah, because you have to be. Imagine if bombs dropped. I think it's survival of the fittest. The strong survive. There's a different kind of strength with Bryce's character. It's more like a grounded, 'I can see the bigger picture, I love my husband and I'm a woman and I will be his rock.' It's similar with me and Marcus, but it's more like, 'I'm a tough girl, I can take care of myself but god, you're a good man that came along and there's hope that there's good men out there.' That's sort of how they're different, but all the women are tough."
What's it actually like on a Terminator set? It's got to be a little surreal.
Moon Bloodgood: "It is, budvase you know you're part of a really big movie and you don't know how it's necessarily going to turn out. But you know you're part of something that you grew up watching, so it's not unfamiliar to you. And then you're working with someone like Christian Bale and Bryce and Sam [Worthington]. You know you're going to grow as an actor. It's something that every day was different. Some days I was just like, 'Oh, this is just like my family,' and then I'd stop and go, 'Wow, I'm actually doing Terminator in Albuquerque and there's these huge sets around me. ' And I still can't really wrap my head around it. Isn't that weird?"
Did you feel like an additional weight was on your shoulders knowing this was such an established franchise that so many millions of people love? When you're acting do you feel that way?
Moon Bloodgood: "No, because I don't feel that I'm being like Sarah Connor, for instance. I am my own character. I felt more like I imagine Christian felt that or Bryce, but I did want – like anyone – the movie to be the best it could be and I never wanted it to have corny one-liners unless they absolutely work. And just I wanted to not let down people that it wasn't going to be just another studio doing a film, that it doesn't respect what Terminator was because I love those movies."
Did you?
Moon Bloodgood: "Oh my god, I grew up watching them and I still to this day… We all watched them together. What I think a great movie is is a composite of entertainment, depth, insight, stimulation, great acting, great story plot, and excitement. So I wanted us to do that. And McG is so fun to work with. You're in the process and you want it to be the best you can make it."