Olivia Thirlby Says Her Role In DREDD Is Like "Playing Laser Tag But With Huge Production Values"

The appeal was the amazing script and the amazing character that Alex Garland wrote for this. Dredd didn't read like a normal genre script; the characters felt so real and the circumstances felt so realistic. There's something I really like about the heroes in this film and about this world in general. They are just men and women really; they don't have superhuman strength, or they're not gods from a different planet- they're just really brave and they feel really real to me.

It is a totally different reimagining of the same source material, but in this version the goal was always to stay very faithful to the comic books, which is in contrast to what the other movie had done. There's a difference in the creative imagining of these worlds, for sure.

It was a combination of things: the suit, the weapons, the ability to do a roundhouse kick and hold my own- all of them. It just feels so cool when you're on set dressed like this; it's like playing laser tag but with huge production values (laughs). Actually, it would take a team of people to get you inside the leather body suits every day, which was crazy. But there is just something about being covered in blood spatter, looking mean and having a sub-machine gun in your hands that's really just so much fun. Oh, and being blonde; that really helped (laughs).