And they are inhabited by people who don’t know how to inhabit them.” They are not, on a physical level, real human beings. “Everybody is playing against type, and everybody is playing avatars. “It’s explained and there’s a reason for it,” she said. Jack Black is actually playing the avatar of another teen girl (the confident Bethany, played by Madison Iseman), while Dwayne Johnson is the video-game version of shy nerd Spencer (Alex Wolff) and football star Fridge ( Ser’Darius Blain) is shocked to end up in the comparatively much smaller body of Kevin Hart. “It was a fair response to the picture on its own.”īut inside the world of “Welcome to the Jungle,” the costume choice makes sense, and Gillan and her co-stars have a lot of fun when it comes to mixing up expectations. To look at that picture out of context, it does look like completely ridiculous,” Gillan said. “To be honest, I can understand people’s reactions. Gillan gets why people assumed the worst when that first peek at the film arrived, especially because so many films are guilty of kitting out their actresses in skimpy clothes that have little bearing on actual plot. “It’s about her learning how to inhabit that and dealing with this ridiculous costume. Everything that anyone’s been saying about the costume is exactly what the character is saying about the costume.” “My character is not happy about it, and she’s a really interesting, introverted girl, but in the body of a warrior woman,” Gillan told IndieWire earlier this year. It’s the first thing her avatar comments on, and her unease with the outfit is apparent throughout the film. That’s Gillan: an old-school video game character outfitted in a purposely ludicrous get-up. The character of Martha is also played by Morgan Turner, said awkward teen who turns into the video game avatar Ruby Roundhouse when she enters the “Jumanji” game. ‘Late Bloomers’ Review: Karen Gillan Stumbles in Coming-of-Age Dramedy
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