Michelle Rodriguez, Chris Pine, Hugh Grant and Regé-Jean Pagestars of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Thievesbent with good grace to the game of questions from a reader of 20 minutes, became a journalist for a day. Laëtitia Da Silva, a 30-year-old French and history-geography teacher, was chosen from among your many applications to interview the performers of the adventure film inspired by the mythical role-playing game.
“Michelle Rodriguez, I love her so much that I don’t know if I’ll be able to line up two words without stuttering in front of her,” she warns. But seeing her associated with this casting as a muscular Xena warrior, not shaved, who doesn’t care about conventions and who annoys the world, fills my little heart with joy. »
Rich and varied encounters
After discovering this fresco rich in action scenes and gags by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley in private screening, Laëtitia was ready for the meetings she conducted in perfect English. The adventurers of the film Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez and Regé-Jean Page like the “bad guy” Hugh Grant were also interested in her job as a French and History-Geography teacher.
“What attracted me to my character? As with the acting profession, he uses a lot of lies and pretense, ”says Hugh Grant to our reader. The hero he embodies does not hesitate to take great liberties with reality when it comes to saving his own skin, which often puts him in delicate positions, especially in the face of the poisonous lord played by Hugh Grant. “It’s always fun to play the bad guy, the actors love it even if I always have a moment of anxiety when I’m told to get out of my trailer to make a close-up connection”, admits Hugh Grant, who does his interviews in pairs with his main enemy in the film, Chris Pine.
Michelle Rodriguez doesn’t seem to have had those kinds of worries on camera. “I liked being wild and not having to answer to anyone: it was freedom for me,” she recalls. My underarm hair was so long I could have braided it and I loved showing it off whenever I could. She took advantage of the breaks to admire the creatures developed by the special effects magicians. “We lived in the middle of all that during all the filming, adds Regé-Jean Page. The monsters were there in front of us, wiggling their eyes. It was great. »
Dungeons & Dragons at school
Everyone was won over by the game, which they didn’t necessarily know before shooting the film. “I think it stimulates the imagination in children and it’s wonderful because it kills children when their imagination is taken away from them”, insists Michelle Rodriguez. Chris Pine pushes the cork a little further. “This game requires incredible efforts of imagination,” he insists. It forces you to work together and teaches you a lot about yourself. I think it should be taught in schools. “A statement that went straight to the heart of our reader. She told us that she often talks about Dungeons & Dragons to his students to make them want to take an interest in the Middle Ages. Happy with “this great experience” as a journalist for a day, we wouldn’t be surprised if she took her classes to see The honor of thieves when it hits theaters on Wednesday, April 12.