'Ash' Stars Eiza González and Aaron Paul On Stepping Into A Strange New World

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00:00Hello, I'm here now.

00:03Oh, there you are, Mary.

00:04There you are.

00:06I'm here now.

00:07Hello.

00:08How are the two of you?

00:09Good.

00:10Great to see you.

00:11Great to see you.

00:12Congratulations on Ash.

00:13What a freaking wild, cool ride.

00:16And I wanted to hear, I think, first from Iza.

00:18I'm sorry if I just pronounced your name, by the way.

00:20Okay.

00:21What attracted you to the script?

00:24Like, what about this?

00:25And especially from coming from such an action background

00:28and taking on a role like this.

00:31Yeah, I mean, you said it.

00:33You watched the movie, right?

00:34So you know.

00:35It's a dream role.

00:36It's a character with so many layers, so many.

00:41It's truly the grit, the passion, the sort of faith, weirdly, that Rhea has.

00:50It's something that really touched me.

00:52She is faith.

00:56And it's, you know, when you get to meet a character the way that we meet Rhea,

01:00which is like a clean slate, it's someone that,

01:02for people that haven't watched the movie,

01:04it's a movie where it starts with she wakes up in a space base,

01:07and everyone's gone.

01:09Her whole crew has been brutally murdered.

01:11She's covered in injuries and bruises, and she doesn't know what's happened.

01:14And she's lost complete memory of who she is.

01:17And so that, as an actor, it sort of brings you back to being a kid.

01:22It brings you back to being a baby.

01:24It's sort of reintroducing everything all at once.

01:27But the soul, the dedication, was something that stayed with me.

01:33Like her motivation wasn't lost with the memories.

01:37And I thought, wow, this is a woman.

01:39And it has nothing to do with religion, but it was like a woman of faith.

01:43And when she has these conversations with Brian,

01:45even though everything has proven her that she shouldn't believe,

01:48she believes.

01:50And there's something very profound in that thought.

01:54It's incarnated in a horror sci-fi survival movie.

02:00But in the core of it, and why you have to care about the character,

02:04is because she has so much belief.

02:08And belief in what she's done, belief in why she's there,

02:12belief in what's coming next, and belief in herself.

02:16And I thought, wow, I was so inspired by her.

02:19I was like, I wouldn't survive.

02:21I wouldn't survive.

02:22I would have been like, peace.

02:24I'm out.

02:25I'm out.

02:26Bye.

02:27I give up.

02:28She just has this grit.

02:31And I was like, wow, I have to do this.

02:34I have to do this.

02:35That's amazing.

02:36And then, Aaron, playing Brian, opposite of that,

02:39what was the draw for you?

02:42And what was so interesting for you to play at this point?

02:44Oh, it's so easy.

02:46I mean, it was really Aza.

02:48You know, she's such a force of nature inside and out.

02:52I just absolutely adore her.

02:54I've known her for many years.

02:56She's a dear friend of mine.

02:58And so I was just hoping that the script was beautiful, right?

03:03And I loved it.

03:04I was hoping that she loved it.

03:06And then we both met with Fly Low, and we both fell in love with them.

03:10But to be able to witness Aza and her process,

03:15she just comes, like, guns blazing every single day.

03:22So, so passionate, so ready.

03:26You know what I mean?

03:27Like, you can tell before shooting,

03:30she has read this script at least 30 times.

03:33You know what I mean?

03:34She just knows every beat.

03:37She's not just learning the lines and kind of delivering a great performance.

03:41She gets this performance because she has done her homework,

03:45and she cares.

03:46You know what I mean?

03:47And so as a friend, a dear friend, and a fan of hers,

03:52it was cool to witness, just to kind of be a fly on the wall

03:56and watch how she gets to where she gets to.

04:00So that's always been a highlight for me, for sure.

04:03I'm blushing.

04:05That's so cool.

04:06What a cool experience.

04:08And I have to wrap up soon, but I did have to know,

04:10what was it like wearing the spacesuits that were designed in this?

04:13What was that like, wearing a helmet and all that outfit?

04:16What was it like?

04:18I mean, a dream come true.

04:19I mean, it's got to be, I mean, I'm a little biased,

04:22but it's got to be one of the coolest spacesuits in cinema history.

04:29You know what I mean?

04:30It really is.

04:31Yeah.

04:32It's a testament to Itor, our costume designer, and Steve.

04:36Yeah.

04:37Because Steve, you know, Stephen really thought of it.

04:40He was like, I mean, it was so beautiful.

04:43You know, I don't think people talk about enough

04:45about how this process is very childlike,

04:48and it brings out the kid in people, like filmmaking.

04:51Yeah.

04:52You see grown adults just geeking out of this drawing that I did.

04:57It's cool.

04:58So cool.

04:59It's like when you were a kid.

05:00You're like, yeah.

05:01And he's like showing us the design of the movie and the spacesuit,

05:05and I remember thinking, wow, this is so fucking cool.

05:09And it was a nightmare to put on.

05:12I'm not going to lie.

05:13It was a nightmare.

05:14It was.

05:15To put on.

05:16Yeah.

05:17Many movie pieces, but once Aaron and I were in it,

05:20I'm like, run, Aaron.

05:21I'm going to take a photo of you in there.

05:23It's just so cool.

05:24It is so cool.

05:26Like, you get to be like a spaceman.

05:28I know it sounds so silly, but like, you don't get to do that ever.

05:30So it's like so cool.

05:31It was all on one stage.

05:35So you have a space station and then the planet surrounded the space

05:40station.

05:41And so when it was all lit up.

05:43It felt like we were in the moon.

05:45We're running around.

05:47We were running around in the spacesuits.

05:49It's just, it's ridiculous that we, I mean, it's a lot of hard work.

05:53A lot goes into it,

05:54but the fact that we get to play around on that sort of level is in a

05:59space suit.

06:00It's just hilarious.

06:01Like that.

06:02That sounds like you're good again.

06:04Thank you. Thank you both so much. I have to wrap. I'm so sorry,

06:07but congratulations.

06:08It was a blast and I'm so glad it was a blast to make.

06:11It was so nice to meet you.

06:12Nice to meet you, Mary Beth.

06:14Thank you for your time.

06:15Bye.

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