Édgar Ramírez chats with THR at the 'Borderlands' premiere and talks about his sturggles playing the game before filming the movie. Plus, he dishes on working with Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis.
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00:00What was it like working with Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis on this movie?
00:03Oh, fantastic. I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, these ladies have so much of the
00:08best sense of humor that you can ever imagine. I mean, it's it's incredible. They were so
00:13welcoming and warm, both of them. And and and Jamie was basically the she was the glue
00:20that kept us together throughout the shoot. You know, she's so welcoming and warm and she
00:25she makes everyone feel so comfortable and welcome, you know, and that and that allowed
00:31us to become very close, very close. And we were all in each other's lives. We all became
00:37friends. You know, this is a gigantic movie. It is something that that normally doesn't
00:41happen in a movie this size because people are busy, because, you know, it's hundreds
00:45and hundreds of people on set. But it felt very intimate. We were all really playing.
00:49We're all we're all turning to kids and we played. And that's and that's an actor's dream,
00:54because, you know, in a way, we're all we all have Peter Pan syndrome. You know, we all want
00:57to be kids forever. I mean, can you imagine that you make you make a living out of believing that
01:02you're someone else? You know, it's somewhere between madness and the most fun thing that
01:06you can ever imagine. What was your experience with playing the game before taking on the role?
01:11Well, that was different because I'm not a gamer. So that was tough for me. But now I'm really
01:17paying attention. I'm really paying attention because some of the most provocative content
01:21in entertainment is happening in the world of video gaming. So I think that a movie like
01:25Borderlands is a perfect interface between that world and the rest of us, you know, the rest of
01:29the world. But now no, not now I belong to this world because I'm right in the I'm now not now
01:34this movie has introduced me to the world of video gaming in the best ways possible.
01:37Such a colorful film to see on the big screen. What was it like stepping on set and being in
01:41this crazy, colorful world of Pandora? It was it was it was really something because
01:46the sets were incredible and the and the extras, the wardrobe, it was really. And also I had the
01:53chance to work with everyone in the film. So that was also actually my first scene. It's almost like
01:59a space opera. Like I walk like my first scene, you know, like the first one that I shot and
02:04suddenly I walked into this gigantic set with hundreds of extras, hundreds of crew and the
02:09entire cast there. And I'm like people who knew each other already because I was the last one to
02:13join the to join that because your first sketch for schedule conflict. I my my my scenes were
02:20shot at the very end of the of the shoot. So it was it was really cool.