“Godzilla vs. Kong” stars Millie Bobby Brown, Demián Bechir, Eiza González, Julian Dennison and Rebecca Hall discuss their upcoming MonsterVerse movie in this interview with CinemaBlend’s Mike Reyes. Find out who’s #TeamKong and who’s #TeamGodzilla, the cast’s theories on where Mothra is and more.
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00:00 But Mothra as well, she's got that weird thing.
00:07 So hopefully she's just chilling in a cocoon somewhere, vibing out.
00:11 A cocoon?
00:26 It's such anticipation, obviously when you both signed on, there's a lot of things that
00:31 swim through an actor's mind when it's like Godzilla vs. Kong.
00:35 Did you have a personal favorite to win already pegged?
00:38 And did the movie script change your opinion at all on who you thought should have won?
00:42 No, for sure.
00:46 I'm team Godzilla, but I love King Kong, so I remember first reading the script.
00:50 Obviously scripts change as you go along in the movie, and even during filming they change.
00:55 So the movie, I guess the way it was edited and everything, it does change.
01:00 But for me, I really was rooting for King Kong, but I was also rooting for Godzilla.
01:05 It was a bit of back and forth, I'm not really set in stone who I'm rooting for, but they
01:11 have a nice bromance.
01:12 I did not, I didn't have a specific, I was curious, I was definitely curious of how are
01:17 they going to mash up these two worlds.
01:21 But I think that through the movie and throughout filming it, I mean obviously I became really
01:25 close to the Kong story side of it.
01:28 So I love Kong, and I'm team Kong.
01:31 That's nice to hear because I can't choose, but it's not easy to side against either of
01:37 them, and Kong is just so warm and adorable.
01:39 He's fuzzy, he's fuzzy.
01:41 The other one feels like if I hugged him, it'd give me a rash.
01:44 Oh, team Kong, all the way.
01:48 Getting a lot of that today.
01:49 I'm kind of, I mean I'm neutral, but I like hearing that.
01:53 Yeah, really?
01:54 Well, we're closer to that guy, you know what I mean?
01:57 Sometimes we behave like lizards, but we're more like a Kong type of it.
02:02 He has feelings, you can see his feelings.
02:04 That's a beautiful thing about this film, and every film about this guy.
02:11 He has feelings, you can sense that, you can see that, you can feel him.
02:14 I mean I have to, I am on team Kong.
02:17 There is no dividing myself from that now, so I cannot say anything other than I've always
02:22 been team Kong, and I will continue to be team Kong.
02:27 That's absolutely fair and on brand because Dr. Eileen Andrews, her relationship both
02:32 with Jia and Kong is just this really nurturing through line that, you know, yeah, you've
02:37 got buildings smashing all over the place, but it's just really beautiful to see that
02:41 heart there.
02:42 Yeah, I think that's true.
02:43 I mean, I think that was the intention, so it's nice to hear.
02:47 Yeah, I think, you know, I think there was a real effort in this version of Kong to not
02:52 have his relationships with humans be a sort of, you know, historically he's generally
02:59 had a crush on a lady, and or tried to save a damsel in distress, which, you know, I think
03:04 we've seen that narrative probably enough times.
03:06 So this version, it was, you know, we wanted, they, you know, the people who made the film
03:12 and the writers wanted it to be his relationship to be with a girl who, a young girl, and also,
03:20 you know, the lady, the scientist who's looking after him.
03:23 So it's kind of, it's kind of a weird family unit with, you know, just a giant child ape
03:28 Kong person.
03:29 Sir, man with a hat.
03:32 Yeah.
03:33 We need Kong.
03:36 The world needs him.
03:39 To stop what's coming.
03:41 Millie, how did it feel to come back to Madison after all this time?
03:46 And how do you think she's changed since Godzilla King of the Monsters?
03:50 It was really nice coming back to her, just being able to finish off that character.
03:54 It feels right to me to kind of continue to evolve Madison.
04:00 Did you see that pause in my brain?
04:05 My brain went, pause Mills.
04:06 We'll clean it up.
04:07 We'll clean it up.
04:08 Thank you.
04:09 No, it's fine.
04:10 You can keep it in there.
04:11 And going back to that character was really nice.
04:16 She's changed quite a bit.
04:17 You know, she's, her mother passed away.
04:20 So she's just kind of trying to carry on her belief system, which is preserve nature, take
04:26 care of your environment, take care of the animals in it.
04:28 So she's really taken that seriously, that role.
04:31 And she's almost trying to become her mother again.
04:34 Now your character, Maya Simmons, is part of this heavy hitter family in the anti-Titan
04:39 market running Apex, being real bosses.
04:43 And especially the first moment Maya comes out, she's just got this take charge attitude
04:47 that it's fantastic.
04:49 Like I love the, you can be impressed sort of line.
04:52 She's terrible.
04:53 So annoying.
04:54 And it feels like there might be, there's a little more to the Simmons than we see on
05:00 screen.
05:01 Was there any pieces of backstory that were cut from the film or that you can contribute?
05:06 Oh.
05:07 Yeah, I mean, the movie changes a lot at the end of the day, you know, the movie is Godzilla
05:11 versus Kong, not the Simmons or anyone else.
05:15 But it was, you know, it was important to convey their story and we had to adjust throughout
05:21 the script and a lot of things happened.
05:23 But I think I'm really happy with the outcome.
05:26 I think that ultimately each and one of the characters really serve a purpose in the film
05:33 to support their stories.
05:34 Because the main stories is like really knowing what's going on with Kong, what's going on
05:37 with Godzilla and why are we going here and why are they doing certain things?
05:41 Now, I was talking with Eiza earlier and just mentioning the whole Simmons family dynamic
05:46 and how it feels like there's some stuff that was kind of, there's more to them under the
05:51 surface that we haven't gotten to see.
05:53 I was wondering what your favorite piece of backstory that was cut from the film was.
05:58 Well, basically, we were very close together and I always wanted a son.
06:07 But then, you know, we had a girl.
06:09 But this girl is like, it's not your usual everyday girl.
06:14 She is a fighter, you know, she's feisty.
06:17 So she became a great pilot and she's an adventurer and she's a great warrior.
06:23 You know, she's my pride.
06:24 And it was cool.
06:25 It was really cool to be able to work with, you know, with Damien V. Chiere, even though
06:30 I didn't get to be with him on set.
06:32 But it was cool and I respect him so much as an actor.
06:34 So I was really happy that there was also a possibility to have two Mexicans in one
06:39 movie and not to be a big thing.
06:42 Or to have to excuse her nationality, which is great.
06:45 Yeah.
06:46 I mean, normally this would be like you saw in Godzilla, King of the Monsters, you saw
06:50 like Charles Dance being like the very arch sort of British villain.
06:54 And then you jumped to Godzilla vs. Kong and it's just this burst of diversity with all
06:58 these characters.
06:59 And it was just beautiful to see.
07:00 Yeah, that's what I really liked about the way that Adam approached the script and Legendary
07:06 and Warner Brothers together.
07:08 They just cared about creating a world that felt real.
07:12 And that was one of the first appeals to me was like, beautiful to read a script that
07:17 I could see people from all over the world that looked very different.
07:21 And yet it wasn't a conversation or something that it was weird.
07:24 It just felt organic and natural.
07:26 It felt like the story.
07:28 And it allowed for people to see themselves on screen and feel like they could be part
07:32 of that world.
07:33 Because growing up, watching big movies like this, for me, that wasn't a possibility.
07:38 You know, there wasn't like a lot of Latinos in these films or Mexicans in these films.
07:42 So the fact that I get to be part of like a little tiny bit of these films makes me
07:46 feel really proud and happy.
07:48 And then was there anything else about Walter that we're missing here?
07:51 Because he gets that he starts his speech and then gets cut off.
07:54 Yeah.
07:55 Plays him off.
07:56 But what was your favorite part that we didn't get to see for Walter?
07:59 I'll tell you what the saddest part of that is.
08:03 There was a great piano concert coming after that.
08:06 Ah!
08:07 Courtesy of Simmons, because people don't know this, but he's a great piano player.
08:13 Is that like a really, are you fooling with me?
08:15 Or is that really something from the character?
08:16 It is something real.
08:18 And hopefully there will be like a prequel where we will see that in the next Godzilla
08:24 and Kong.
08:26 And that's the side that, you know, made A.C.E.'s mother fell in love with Simmons.
08:33 Command Performance, the Walter Simmons story.
08:35 I love it.
08:36 The myths are real.
08:37 There was a war.
08:38 And they're the last ones standing.
08:46 Last question.
08:47 Where's Mothra?
08:49 I don't know.
08:50 You sure?
08:51 I don't know.
08:52 All right.
08:53 I'll buy that.
08:54 All right.
08:55 No spoilers.
08:56 Come on.
08:58 Where's Mothra?
08:59 I don't, I, I, this is not my, it's not my business.
09:05 I'm just Kong.
09:06 This has got nothing to do with, it's beyond my job description.
09:09 I have no idea.
09:13 No one knows where Mothra is, man.
09:16 You know, I, I have no idea.
09:18 Where do you guys think Mothra is right now?
09:20 Like.
09:21 Mothra is such a queen.
09:23 Let me tell you, Mike.
09:25 She has no time for this boy drama.
09:28 I mean, get over yourselves with the fighting.
09:31 Nobody cares anymore.
09:32 Mothra's like, "Tell 'em, boy."
09:34 But I'm like, yeah, that's how I feel, Mike.
09:37 That's how I feel.
09:38 Julian, where do you think Mothra is?
09:41 So I have three fears in life.
09:44 Okay, I have zombies.
09:46 Here we go.
09:47 Be prepared.
09:48 Wolves, people judging me, and moths.
09:51 I feel like moths are the ugly cousin of the butterfly.
09:55 They're furry.
09:57 They're just furry, they're furry butterflies.
10:01 They have weird little hairs.
10:04 They're attracted to light.
10:05 So you're at night and you have a lamp on, there's always moths around.
10:08 If you live, you know, out in the bush.
10:10 But Mothra, as well, she's got that weird thing.
10:16 So hopefully she's just chilling in a cocoon somewhere, vibing out.
10:19 Who?
10:20 A cocoon?
10:21 Okay.
10:22 All right.
10:23 Mike, take mine.
10:24 Kong bows to no one.
10:28 Here we go.
10:31 [Zombie moans]
10:33 (growling)
10:35 [BLANK_AUDIO]