Escapades: The Movie - On-Set Interviews

We're here on the set of The Exhilarating Escapades of Wossy and Aeria: The Movie with two-time Oscar winner Claire Braun to discuss her experience so far with playing titular protagonist Aeria Brown! Claire, thanks so much for taking this time out of your lunch break to chat with us...

This started out as a pretty standard Aeria headshot with the intent of just drawing a slightly more 'realistic' version, but then inspiration struck. And the moment I knew I wanted to lean in on the 'someone playing Aer in a movie' concept, I remembered some fun interviews with Gemma Arterton about a great little crime flick called "The Disappearance of Alice Creed" where she spends the first half of it cuffed to a bed and ballgagged, so riffed on them a little, too.

https://www.mtv.com/news/srfor5/disappearance-of-alice-creed-was-demanding-gemma-arterton-says

MTV: Also, the ball gag you always have to wear. By the end of it, my jaw was hurting. How long did you have to suffer?

Arterton: Oh, the ball gag! For the first week, I was really like the overzealous actor going, "Put it on really tight. I want to feel it, and the handcuffs and all that." And then I started actually hurting myself, and I had these cuts at the side of my mouth and my wrists were bruised, so we worked out a way I could fake it. But it was just, take after take, just pop the ball gag in. If I was talking too much, they'd pop the ball gag back in. Actually, they used to disinfect it every day with mouthwash. So now with mouthwash, I get that kind of memory of the ball gag.

https://screenanarchy.com/2010/08/gemma-arterton-talks-the-disappearance-of-alice-creed.html

How did the experience of being tied up in a room all day compare to being out in the desert all day?

Actually, it was really nice. I got to lie down a lot. [Laughs]. My legs got a lot of rest. No, they're so different, you can't really compare them in any way. Acting wise it was great. I've got this tendency to over animate myself thanks to my theatre background and I couldn't do that in this movie. I had to convey everything with my face and voice. The physical restraint was kind of the easy bit, it actually formed the basis of the acting for me. I didn't really know how I was going to do it, which is part of why I did it. To learn how. I've never been in that kind of situation before, believe it or not. We filmed it in sequence, so I did all of the brutal physical stuff in the first week. It was horrid, but completely helpful because it kind of set me up for the rest of the movie and I remembered it in my body for the rest of the movie. Kind of a blessing, actually.
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Someone said to me the other day, "I heard that when you were making the film, you demanded that you were tied up for the whole evening." I was like, 'Yeah I said that.' So I could fall asleep on the bed! It was easier to not untie me because it took too much time. I would stay there and they would go off for a coffee. Literally it wasn't because I was in the role. It was pretty funny.

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Someday, it might also be fun to see "Wossy"'s workout routine, or "Jazmyr" in the makeup chair with markers all over her nose for Voldemort-style digital removal... but we'll see. :p
Anyway, standalone images and textless alts attached and in July's Dropbox!