

This isn't what I would refer to as an actor's piece. MC: It's a different type of performance. At least we have the organic nature of working with sets and tangible things, compared to a green canvas. My hat goes off to those guys who did all the "Star Wars" movies totally against a green screen. Then you come onto the set and you find that you're working two, three takes, which took about ten minutes and they've been setting up for the last hour and a half. It takes so long for them to set up just for one particular shot. It's so precise and it's such an art in that sense. That's just the nature of green screen images. To be perfectly honest, the preparation for that sort of process is get yourself a lot of DVDs and a lot of PlayStation games because you're gonna spend a lot of time in your trailer. IG: Yeah, there's certainly a lot more green screen this time around. There's more of that than there was in the first one. MC: Well I think we've all gotten better at it. I'm gonna burn that one.įollowing up on that question, has it gotten easier to work with effects the second time around or is it just as challenging? That's Ioan, that little tennis ball down there. JM: With all of our fight scenes, you guys have no idea what I did. Jessica Alba: You get to be the center of attention, Julian. JM: I've done some scenes where he hasn't been there. He has dialogue and it's good to bounce off a real person rather than a tennis ball with an "X" on it, you know. So, we have a physical presence there to work with.

He was there for the off-camera work and Doug is there for our off-camera work. Ioan Gruffudd: It's the same essentially to what Andy Sirkis did for the character of Gollum. But the way you work on set, obviously, with no one there.Ĭhris Evans: There's somebody there. Julian McMahaon: We can't talk too much about the Silver Surfer, but he does look really good. Fantastic), Jessica Alba (Susan Storm/The Invisible Woman), Chris Evans (Johnny Storm/The Human Torch), Michael Chiklis (Ben Grimm/The Thing) and Julian McMahon (Victor Von Doom/Dr. In attendance were Ioan Gruffudd (Reed Richards/Mr. This interview was conducted last year, early in the production stage of the film. CBR News in association with presents the second of a two-part interview with the stars of "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer," which opens in theaters June 15th.
