Metro Atlanta native Elle Fanning is known for finding deep humanity in every character she plays on-screen — but what happens when one of those characters technically doesn’t have any?
“There’s no humans in the film,” says the actress of her latest project. “It’s a creature [and] a robot, but still Dan really wanted audiences to connect and feel something, and for there to be emotion and laughs.”
Fanning co-stars as a quirky robot in the new film “Predator: Badlands,” which opens in theatres nationwide Friday. The film extends the blockbuster action/sci-fi “Predator” franchise which launched back in 1987 — when director Dan Trachtenberg was still too young to see it.
“My first touchpoint with it was in 3rd grade, and I was in a carpool with a bunch of 6th graders, and they had just seen it and described the entire movie to me, word-for-word, moment-to-moment,” laughs the filmmaker. “So, the first time I saw it was actually in my own imagination!”
And speaking of imagination, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi certainly needed one for his audition — which included performing a scene in a made-up language.
“It’s funny because I didn’t even know what I was auditioning for,” says the actor. “They had kept everything quite secret, so they just gave us a brief scene — ‘This is just an alien creature, so, it’s up to your interpretation’ — and we love those auditions…because you can really do anything.”
For more information on “Predator: Badlands,” click here — and click the video player in this article to watch our interviews with the director and stars.
