There’s one scene in Ready Or Not 2 that Sarah Michelle Gellar needs she was in, however she discovered a option to go away her mark there regardless that she’s not on display screen. We sat down with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Elijah Wood to dive into cool Easter eggs and what it is wish to play characters who land firmly on the psychosis scale (although they might not be essentially the most psychotic characters within the ensemble).
On a sliding scale of evil, Gellar and Wood’s characters don’t fairly have redeeming qualities, however I’ll say there could also be moments when it’s possible you’ll hate them barely lower than the remainder of the evil ensemble. Thanks to the layers these two actors dropped at their villainous characters, there are moments the place they’re (nearly) verging on likeable! And if you already know something in regards to the world of Ready Or Not, that’s no small feat!
“Well, I think you have to look at the motivations for each of the characters. For Ursula, if you take out the whole devil part of it… She was raised by a powerful father in his image” Sarah Michelle Gellar defined. “I think we’ve all met people like that who are raised with one sole purpose, and you don’t really get to know yourself because you think that’s all you are. If you sort of remove the devil, you have a job to do. You want to be good at your job. You take away the part where you work for the devil, and then you just have a person who has a bad boss.”
In the world of Ready Or Not, the higher echelon of society serves satanic forces in alternate for final energy and world domination. These are the individuals who run the world, descended from households who made blood sacrifices and swore oaths of allegiance, committing unspeakable atrocities in opposition to harmless individuals in alternate for that energy.
“You can level the character,” Gellar added. “But I think truthfully, and Sam [Samara Weaving] said this best actually, because someone asked her about playing Grace and being scared in every scene, and she’s like, ‘Look, if I just play scared in every scene, it’s a boring movie for the audience to watch.’ So instead, she’s scared angry, she’s funny angry in the sense of, how ridiculous is my life? She’s angry. I think it’s the same for us. Every character had to give them levels.”
In addition to the degrees for every character, Wood defined the layers for every character because the expertise goes on. “You’re also just sort of reacting to the world around you,” Wood expanded. “But to that point, I think they’re all true to themselves, these characters. No one’s outwardly evil. They all believe in their own way that their reality is the right one, that their deal with the devil is that they’re going to do good things with it, and they believe that those things are righteous. So everyone’s coming at it from the same place. No one’s coming at it with sort of twisting their mustaches. Everyone kind of believes with conviction about their worldview.”
“And that they’re the right person to be running the world,” Gellar stated. I imply, I believe that is the true factor about energy, proper? Everybody has their causes for eager to be in energy. We could not agree with them or we could.”
As for the largest evil on the sliding scale of evil on this ensemble, Wood’s cash is on Titus Danforth, performed by Shawn Hatosy. “I think your brother [Titus] might be the most psychotic, though. Shawn’s character is definitely perhaps a psychopath.”
“Yes, he’s definitely a psychopath,” Gellar agreed with Wood punctuating, “Yeah, he’s a psychopath.” Gellar is fast to level out the explanation behind Titus’ lunacy, “But I also think that comes from inferiority of being in his sister’s shadow. So as he starts to see the power closer and closer, it’s what unhinges him. Or you could just say we’re all just fucked up. I mean, it depends on how you want to look at the movie.”
The film’s main battle scene takes place in an eerie deserted get together venue, with half-drunk glasses of booze and meals that can by no means be eaten, set to an ’80s energy ballad. This isn’t giving something away, but it surely must be stated with the intention to set the scene a bit. “I left a little sneaky thing in that scene because I love that scene so much. I made a whole place card of tables, and it’s my family,” Gellar shared. It’s the primary Wood has heard of this, and he reacted with an excited “Get out of here.”
Gellar lists her relations, “It’s Charlotte, Rocky, and Freddy. I was there that day waiting for one shot, which I didn’t even know if they were going to get to. It was a long day, and I was hanging out. I took the place cards, and I changed them all. And so there’s a table for my family at that party.”
Wood marvels on the prospect of the place playing cards making it on display screen, “That’s amazing. Cool Easter egg.”
Ready Or Not 2 is in theaters March 20.
