![]() ![]() But also I see how much it connects people to a community. ![]() I had to really learn as much as possible and actually get into some of the games and play them, and I could see how hard it is to sort of break free and let go of them again. I dove into that world pretty heavily in researching the movie. I can't profess to always being successful at that. "I think it's important to try to delineate the two. "AI is obviously something that we're all contending with in reality right now, and I think our lives in screens are sometimes indistinguishable from our real lives," he says. It's something Reynolds thought about when making the film, he says. Image: Reynolds, pictured at the Free Guy premiere in New York, says he wanted to celebrate people 'stepping forward from the background'. The film flits between the two worlds, exploring the issue of the blurring line between reality and virtual reality. She's also a lovely human being as well, which certainly doesn't hurt."Īs Guy starts to make change for good in Free City, the character develops on offline fan base. And I think that's the mark of somebody who is truly excellent at their craft. From the first hour of work on set, I felt like I was learning more from her than she was from me. "I think I've done about 800,000 more films than she has, but you wouldn't know it. "She just came in and I think it was the second line out of her mouth, I was already looking over at Shawn and just giving him the nod like, this is the person. I think we'd read about 70 or 80 other actors for this particular role and we knew we wanted somebody really special, but like, sometimes you don't know what you're looking for until it walks in the room. "She can just do anything, it's really wild to see her go. "She is like a skin-covered Swiss army knife," he says. Image: Comer and Stranger Things star Joe Keery play gamers Millie and Keys. In her first major film role, Liverpudlian star Comer, best known for playing psychopathic Russian assassin Villanelle in Killing Eve, once again gets to demonstrate her talent for accents, switching between cut glass English and American. So Shawn Levy and I were really excited to have that opportunity here with Free Guy." "You know, that's a harder sell for studios. It's much harder to go to a studio and say, 'Hey, I'd like to make a whole new kind of adventure/comedy/action film for summer. "It's much easier to go to a studio and say, 'I'd like to make this movie based on this comic book or this, or I'd like to make a sequel or a prequel to this'. "These days it's increasingly hard to get something new made," he says. In the era of comic book franchises and never-ending spin-offs and sequels, Reynolds says he is also proud that Free Guy, which is directed by Shawn Levy (Stranger Things, Night At The Museum), is completely original. Image: Reynolds on set with his Free Guy co-stars and crew members: (Clockwise from left) Joe Keery, Jodie Comer, Shawn Levy, Utkarsh Ambudkar and Taika Waititi Pic: Alan Markfield/20th Century Studios ![]()
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