How John Boyega Helped Cailee Spaeny On Pacific Rim Uprising

How John Boyega Helped Cailee Spaeny On Pacific Rim Uprising

We interview Pacific Rim Uprising star Cailee Spaeny about working with visual effects and her upcoming films, like Adam McKay’s Backseat.

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How John Boyega Helped Cailee Spaeny On Pacific Rim Uprising

In Steven S. Deknight’s Pacific Rim Uprising, Cailee Spaeny stars as Amara Namani, the super smart and tough teen who builds Scrapper and becomes joins the service just as a new Kaiju threat emerges. Cailee sat down with us to discuss her character, the diversity of the cast, and touches upon her roles in Backseat and where she’d like to see her character go next in the franchise.

Screen Rant: So, when you first get wind of Pacific Rim Uprising, what brings you on board to that project?

Cailee Spaeny: Well, I mean just the fact that it is my first project alone, like it’s the first time I ever booked something I just wanted to be a part of that and then the fact when I did my research and I watched the first film and I saw how much of an impact it made worldwide and how the cast is so diverse and you know, we have an actor from Japan, we have actors from China, we have a girl from Ukraine, a girl who’s family’s from Cuba, so that was super important to me and then the fact that I was playing such a strong female character who is educated and passionate and holds her own but is also just a nice young kid too, you know, at heart and that was super exciting for me to play, I mean I’m introduced to the film industry with a powerful role.

Screen Rant: Sure.

Cailee Spaeny: So, I feel very honored and lucky to be able to do that.

Screen Rant: Every cast member that I’ve talked to from your cast has said that you came in almost completely unfazed by like the VFX and by all the stuff you’re doing, so I’m–

Cailee Spaeny: I was putting on a show the whole time I was actually freaking out, but I mean it worked, I had I had to do it, I was going into work, there was no time to say that I couldn’t do something or I didn’t know how to do something, it was this hit the ground running, you know I had to figure it out on the day. Thankfully I had really patient people with me, you know John was super good and took his time to explain things to me coming off of the big Star Wars sets and dealing with the green screen and then also Steven was the most patient man I’ve ever worked with, so kind, we worked for six months together and I didn’t see one moment where he acted frustrated with me or like I wasn’t doing something right when he definitely had every right to act like that and so I really give it up to the cast and crew there for having my back through all of that.

Screen Rant: Now I’m sure after this experience you can probably walk on any set and do anything, mainly because those suits couldn’t have been comfortable.

Cailee Spaeny: They’re not comfortable and there’s definitely a science to them, of the days we were outside on hundred degree weather we had ice packs stuffed in them and then we take them out and get them cool again, go into our trailer, come back to get it stuffed again and then also staying hydrated was tricky because you wanted to drink water because you were super hot and sweaty, but then if you drank too much you had to go to bathroom then five people had to get you out of the suit, so yeah there . . . I don’t particularly miss wearing those suits, but yes, now that I’ve done that I feel like I can do anything.

How John Boyega Helped Cailee Spaeny On Pacific Rim Uprising

Screen Rant: I was talking to Steven and I was talking to you earlier and you said that in the next film possibly, not your choice, but your character would probably want to love interest.

Cailee Spaeny: Yeah.

Screen Rant: Steven actually says, he says that he set that up in this film that if he comes back to direct the next one that you would get a love interest.

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Cailee Spaeny: Sweet. So it’s getting closer.

Screen Rant: So, it’s getting closer to a reality. He said he set it up, obviously he knows who it would be, do you know who would be?

Cailee Spaeny: I have a feeling I know who it would be. Should I say it?

Screen Rant: Yeah. I mean this is going to come out after . . .

Cailee Spaeny: OK cool, so Wesley Wong plays a character in there and I believe it’s his character that would be my love interest, I think that’s what he’s thinking. . .

Screen Rant: I like how you get a little shy about it.

Cailee Spaeny: Yeah, I know like. . . yeah. Wes is great. I think that’s where he’s going, I don’t know, I’ll have to talk Steve and be like ‘Who do you see me having a love interest in?’ I want to know.

Screen Rant: I think so too, because it seems like, obviously it’s not John’s character, you have this great brotherly sense of family.

Cailee Spaeny: Yeah.

Screen Rant: Which I think is super important, mainly because John had that same relationship with Mako during the first movie, well, not actually in the first, but it’s implied, it seems like you have that kind of with him. Now, talk to me about the international cast, the one thing I did love about it is that it sets up this appeal for a new generation to kind of launch their specific and franchise along with John into the next few films or whatever it may be, so tall to me about working with your fellow like young actors that came from all walks of life and all different places from around the world.

Cailee Spaeny: Yeah, I mean I come from the Midwest and everyone has the same story as I do and we all relate in a certain way and I had never left the country before this movie, so–

Screen Rant: Really?

Cailee Spaeny: I didn’t really have. . . Yeah, I had to get my passport for this film so that was exciting. So, I really had only one specific. . . I wouldn’t say I was closed minded because I always wanted to travel, but I didn’t know anything else other than the Midwest, so when I got cast in this and I started working with the people like you said with all different walks of life, we would, we were learning so much from each other and I asked Leslie like ‘oh that’s how it is in China?’ or I’d be like what’s it like in Ukraine or Mexico, you know or Cuba so it was so cool to to learn all these different cultures and we’d have like potluck night where I’d bring my southern food and there’d be Chinese food that they’d bring and Mexican and Indian food from everyone’s different backgrounds and that was just such a beautiful way to get to know each other and bring a little bit of ourselves into it and yeah I miss that we should do another one soon. I want to do that again, but yeah I think it’s so important for me to have those experiences, it changed my life.

Screen Rant: Now, as an actor I’m sure you learn everything from every different set you’re on, around everybody work with, so when you think of Pacific Rim Uprising, you as yourself as a person or even as an actress, what are you going to take away from it?

Cailee Spaeny: I think any good sci-fi film has humanity, some sort of human element to it and I feel like it did just such a great job at creating these detailed worlds with these crazy monsters, but this human connection and I feel like Steven passed . . . Guillermo passed the torch to him and he did it so well again and you know, something that I hope people take away from it is that we all have to come together to fight a greater cause.

How John Boyega Helped Cailee Spaeny On Pacific Rim Uprising

Screen Rant: Sure.

Cailee Spaeny: You know, we may have our differences, our different backgrounds, but we’re all still in it for one thing and that’s to protect each other and to have the best lives and if we are supposed to do that, the only way we can do that is to come together.

Screen Rant: Scott had a very similar answer.

Cailee Spaeny: Yeah.

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Cailee Spaeny: Now switching gears for a second, obviously your next project is Backseat which is directed by Adam Mckay, I’m excited for it really–

Cailee Spaeny: Yeah, thank you.

Screen Rant: You play Lynne Cheney, what can you tell me about Lynne and why do you think that this movie is the right time for it, right now in this in this era that we’re kind of in?

Cailee Spaeny: So, to answer that question, I just think it’s really cool in this movie that we have such a young, girl, female, who is intelligent, who stands their ground, like I said and there’s no question about it, we never question it, we never. . . it doesn’t feel foreign or weird, which is super exciting, because there was a time that it did feel foreign and weird and I feel like there’s a change coming and I get to be a part of that, which is so amazing and then and in the Backseat movie I’m really excited about Adam McKay directed it and he did The Big Short, which is, he does such a great job in, you know his background in comedy and breaking down these real controversial issues and also making it bite size for the regular folks, who don’t know how to comprehend things as well, so he adds this comedy element into it–

Screen Rant: Even in this film?

Cailee Spaeny: Even this film yeah, so it’s going to have. . . I mean there are serious moments obviously, but you really get the insight of the Cheney’s life and that was interesting for me to take on Lynne Cheney as a young teenage girl and how the things that happen in our life ends up determining what happens in the future–

Screen Rant: Interesting. . .

Cailee Spaeny: So that was fun to research, and I read her book and I was talking to Amy Adams about what she was going to do in the film and that was such a great experience and I’m excited for people to see that too.

Screen Rant: I am too, and it seems really interesting and Christian’s went through such a transformation–

Cailee Spaeny: Oh it’s insane, I mean, I saw him in the middle . . . my last day on set was their first day on set, so I only met him for a brief moment, but now looking at the pictures, some of them have made it online and it’s not Christian Bale you know, it’s Dick Cheney, for sure. So that was wild, then watching them do the screen tests and testing out all the makeup and prosthetics, it’s just something I’ve never seen before so yeah, and it’s very obviously very different than Pacific Rim in that it’s a political film and it’s going to you know, people are going to have a lot to say about it. More for the adults, more controversial probably, but yeah, I mean it’s a story that also needs to be told.

Screen Rant: Now back to Pacific Rim, I love the universe and I’m a huge fan of Pacific Rim, it’s just so much, so what is it that you want people– I mean I know that you talk about having it all coming together, but what else do you want people to take away from that, especially your character is such a strong female role,

Cailee Spaeny: Well, I think it’s so cool because tons of kids are going to go see this movie you know, I have young nephews and my boyfriend’s mom works at a kindergarten and we go into the class sometimes and the kids are asking about Pacific Rim, so I know kids are going to go see this and the big thing for me when we were talking about the diversity in the cast is that kids are going to sit in that theater and be like ‘oh he looks like me.” You know it’s someone that they can relate to and whether it’s Amara or one of the cadets or Jake or Scott’s character Lambert, I think there’s someone to connect to for everybody in the audience which is super exciting.

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