Actress Ellen Page who is set to play Kitty Pryde in the highly anticipated X-Men 3 recently spoke to 'TheCoast' about her new role in the film.
"It’s just so huge," she says. "It just blows my mind. I’m so used to doing tough, intense material in like 18 days or 24 days, for not much money. It’s truly the complete opposite of anything I’ve ever done."
"She can run through walls, and grab people and pull them through walls,” says Page, wrapping her hands around a mug of French roast. “Not very flashy—it’s kind of the humble defensive power."
Her background knowledge of the X-Men story is limited, so she’s been reading up. She knows "people will just kill you if you don’t do it to justice."
"People are like, ‘Are you doing lots of research and heavy training?’" she says. "I’ve been reading the comics, and I’m not a crazy boozehound. And I’m relatively"—she pumps her arms, mock-running—"athletic. Really I’d like to be like"—her voice drops an octave into a smooth, upper-crust accent—"‘Yes, I’m up at six every morning, drinking protein shakes and working for seven hours every day on a new voice, which sounds like this.’" She laughs, slipping back into her own speech pattern. "No, that’s not what’s going on. Part of me’s really excited and part of me is deathly nervous. So I’m in a liminal phase, I guess."
She ends the interview by saying "ultimately I think this is a great step."
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