Comingsoon.net’s ‘Immortals’ Set Visit

Comingsoon.net‘s Perri Nemiroff visited the set of Immortals last fall, and he just released his report! It contains tons and tons of interesting stuff about the movie’s visuals to the costumes and sets to cast interviews. Nemiroff talked to Freida Pinto about her role as Phaedra and how working on such a big budget-film is like. Read her answers below:

Q: So your power is seeing into the future. Is there anything else your character does?
Pinto: Well, why she does have the ability to look into the future, she really does not know exactly whether what she’s seeing – there is no real true interpretation for that, it can have many. So it’s entirely up to her to decide or decipher what that actually means, the vision that she’s seen. She does have the quality of being human because many a times we are confused and we really do not know what that dream really meant or you suddenly get ideas, so I feel in that sense, having that power, but really not having the entire all of it to me was really natural. That is her only power though, that she can see the future.

Q: Having worked with Woody Allen on “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger” and Danny Boyle on “Slumdog,” what surprised you most about doing a really big budget picture?
Pinto: Yeah, this is my first big budget film. I’ve done three independent films before this and I feel it’s a whole new ballgame. You have to be more on the ball as to what’s happening, you have to be more flexible with timings and everything because a lot depends on studios. It’s not just about you or three other actors in a scene. There’s extras, there’s a lot of other inputs coming in. I remember the day we had the big sludge set, we had it literally for three days or two days and we had to put everything down into those three days so we had to kind of work overtime or whatever it was, but really be ready to go on set anytime. You’re sitting in your trailer because they tell you you have a half an hour break, but that can get down to a 10 minute break and you have to be ready and jump right back in. And that’s the fun part about being in a film like this and the only negative part that I can see is that you can’t really make plans.

Q: What’s the biggest challenge shooting this movie so far?
Pinto:My red corset! That was my biggest challenge because Tarsem and Eiko [Ishioka] who’s a fabulous costume designer. She is just out of this world, brilliant, and she had this beautiful costume designed for me. But, unfortunately, the costume for me, as beautiful as it was, if it was really tied it was like a corset, it makes it difficult to breathe. Though many a times Tarsem wanted me to have a vision and I would have my vision with my mouth open because I was just trying to get in as much air and Tarsem would be like, ‘Close your mouth! We don’t want to see your teeth!’ And I was like, ‘Oh my god! I’m not doing that on purpose, it’s just my corset.’ But that was not the biggest challenge, but it was a small little challenge and I kind of overcame it so it was no big problem.

Read the complete set of cast interviews here. Also, visit comingsoon.net for the full behind the scenes-report! It’s definitely worth a read. Immortals is unleashed on 11.11.11.