In a chat with the official Marvel website, Gael García Bernal reveals the details surrounding his preparation to become Werewolf by Night in the Marvel Studios Halloween special
Gael García Bernal stars as Jack Russell, aka Werewolf by Night, who is in a race against time to find and rescue his friend Ted (the imposing Man-Thing) who has been placed in the Bloodstone family’s garden for others to see. hunters chase him. to the.
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On the eve of the premiere of Werewolf by Night, a Marcel Studios special that is now available on digital platforms, the official Marvel website chatted with Gael García Bernal, the new
Marvel: What was your favorite moment from filming the special, either in front of the camera or behind the scenes?
Gael García Bernal: I just found the creative dialogue with [el director] Michael Giacchino and Laura [Donnelly] also. Especially Laura, she is a big fan of Halloween and monsters. Michael is too, but there were these interesting backstage conversations every time we cut where we would talk about monsters.
It’s great because with a project like this, there’s an opportunity to reflect on what the characters have done before and what they’re going to do. [a continuación]. That is incredible. That doesn’t happen with other movies.
But in this case, there was an opportunity to imagine where this is going or how we can build it. Obviously, Michael has many, many, many, many ideas. But that was one of the pleasures of being invited on this project: building and building a character like this.
Marvel How did you work with Michael to find Jack’s heart in the story? Seeing him, he is a monster. But he’s also incredibly caring and compassionate..
Gael García Bernal: Among the many aspects of a character like this, definitely the half-canine aspect of the character, where all these things helped me build the character and give the character body and color.
One of them, for example, were werewolves who lived for many, many years. Then, who knows? Jack Russell has perhaps been alive for the last 200, 300 or 400 years. So how would a character like this or someone who has lived for so many years react to the mundane or the day-to-day? How would the conversations take place? You know, stuff like that.
And there’s a huge possibility with a character like this to go off on different tangents and try different things. That’s how we started to build and assemble it. And at the same time, you establish a little concept, but then you try. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, and then you fix it. It’s a process, I guess.
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Marvel: In terms of working with Laura on Jack and Elsa’s relationship, it seems very controversial by virtue of the competition. What was it like building that tension and reluctant trust with Elsa?
Gael García Bernal: They immediately feel, especially Jack, that he has lived for many years and can read the room a little bit, and can understand a little bit who is standing where. He knows more or less what Laura is up to in a way, the Elsa Bloodstone character. So we started trying things out and we started establishing, OK, what the conversations would be about, what the focus would be.
One of the things I mentioned at the beginning that I loved talking to Laura because she really likes these characters. She is a big fan of this character. So it was amazing talking to her. And she too, she’s a great actress and a great person to work with.
Marvel: The other relationship that Jack has is with Ted. How is that relationship between the two characters? You have a sense of history there.
Gael García Bernal: A lot of the things that I think may be part of their relationship are things that I won’t say because, you know, I’ll mess it up. But not only that, I will spoil it for the future or possibilities that there may be. So no, no, let’s not talk about it.
Marvel: What are you most excited for fans to see with this special showing?
Gael García Bernal: First of all, it’s interesting, the whole horror genre. It is one of the most stylized film genres. I’m interested in seeing the fans of this genre, how they committed themselves to this type of feature film, also experimental, which is, in Spanish, we would call it, like “half a movie”. And that was a kind of format that existed before, right?
There were these movies that were only 50 minutes or something like that, which is actually a pretty good length to tell something and give insight into something. And I love the fact that it leaves everyone anticipating, you know, curious about what’s going to happen next. I think that and also meeting these characters and also all the experimentation that we went through. The film is in black and white.
That is something quite interesting nowadays in this very careful visual culture that we all have. Let’s see what that reaction is. I think everyone appreciates that it’s very different. So it’s fascinating. I don’t know. Let’s see what the consequences of this will be.
Marvel: How did you prepare to become Jack Russell? Did you read any of the comics? Did you watch old movies? How was the preparation?
Gael García Bernal: I did those two things you mention. But at the same time, I started reading a lot about the mythology of werewolves, along with half-human creatures in different cultures around the world.
I started to do some research and I started to place it also in some kind of anthropological sociological archetype maybe of society, and where do they fit?
And I think there are so many opportunities there to tell so many things about the state of things today. But also the fact that the monsters, what do they represent? Are they just the sublimation of our traumas, of our collective traumas? But are they also an excuse to persecute some people?
It can have those consequences, you know, those kinds of tangents and argumentative tangents as well. So I got very interested in this character because of all these possibilities.
Werewolf by Night is available on the Disney+ digital platform.
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Source: Marvel.com
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