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'Morbius' Cast Interviews | Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona and Daniel Espinosa
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11/09/2024
“Morbius” stars Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona and director Daniel Espinosa discuss the comic book genre, what sets “Morbius” apart, the Marvel vs. DC debate, and much more in this exclusive interview with CinemaBlend.
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We'll see what happens but uh you know I think uh I don't know and I think Morbius
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Spider-Man that that's a meeting that has to happen.
00:10
I do love horror, I love elevated horror, elevated genre in general and I think that's
00:30
what makes this different.
00:31
It's a big Marvel movie but also has elements of horror, it's a little darker and scary
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and uh that that's you know kind of makes it stand out in the crowd I think.
00:40
Yeah you know I think what's really interesting about the genre is that as a form it allows
00:45
you to be quite um almost like Shakespeare does.
00:50
You can be quite big, you can make quite bold choices because the universe is in itself
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quite big so you can be quite bold with the brushstrokes that you throw at the canvas
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as it were for the less boring analogy um and you know there's there's um I think I
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think there's a lot of interesting parts being written by a lot of great writers and a lot
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of great directors are gravitating towards that sort of universe.
01:17
I love playing Michael Morbius, I love the fact that I got to interpret this character
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for the first time.
01:23
I don't look down on this movie, I don't look down on the character, I don't apologize for
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it.
01:28
I put it up alongside anything else I've ever done in my life and uh uh I think audiences
01:34
deserve from me my very best and I did my very best in this film as best as I could.
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I worked as hard as I could to bring this character to life, it's very it has a transformation
01:45
that was very challenging and for me creatively exciting but uh no I mean I I think that you
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know the best of Marvel, the best at DC stand alongside the best of any other film.
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I think it's ridiculous to suggest otherwise.
02:04
In almost all Spider-Verses or or you know the the verses that that existed in in the
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Marvel Universe if you read the comic books the whole idea of those kind of uh of that
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kind of the Marvel string theory if you would call it it's very related to you know if you
02:20
remember uh the the the alternative Seinfelds you know is is is that you have like a world
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where you have the same characters and and and it's all of the characters but they are
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slightly different you know so in almost all the verses you have a Spider-Man but they
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will be different you know in the in tone.
02:42
That's not quite the way that the kind of Marvel Cinematic Universe universe are approaching
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the the idea then you have the second kind of a legend which is about the totem is that
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in all universes that there is a spider totem so which means that in all universes there
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have to be a Spider-Man.
03:00
We'll see what happens but uh you know I think uh I don't know and I think Morbius Spider-Man
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that that's a meeting that has to happen.
03:10
You know once you make a movie like this once you make a Marvel movie I think the second
03:15
you finish the movie it's no longer yours it it almost never feels yours you you you
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have a responsibility to sort of make this movie for the fans and I think that's what
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we what we did so I felt it I was I was feeling the pain I was like I just want them to see
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it I want them to enjoy it and I and I want them to be introduced to Michael Morbius or
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reintroduced to Michael Morbius and and to meet Martine and to meet Milo and you know
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I'm very proud of the film that that Daniel made.
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I have increased strength and speed in some form of that radar what else can I do?
03:54
If you think of his power his power one of his powers are echolocation and we the first
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time we saw it Noah was in the um you know Ben Affleck's Daredevil you know and then
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and there what we always have done is that the people that have echolocation have been
04:08
blind so it's always been like this representation of a dark room and then you have some kind
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of wave that goes through it and you can see things in the dark room but what happens
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if you see if you are a seeing human being because then you have to kind of adapt that
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kind of next you know your third eye if you would call it upon the you know visions of
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how you really perceive the world you know so then I thought psychedelia man or you know
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you you know that kind of vibe so so so then I thought okay it has to become psychedelia
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and then I started you know I'm a big comic book lover so I always loved of how they drew
04:45
powers you know so then you know I was watching Pokemon and I was like I like that I like those
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waves I like those colors you know I like that kind of expression and then we put that together
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and and started working out this this idea of the psychedelic version of the third eye.
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Just accept who you are.
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The bad guy.
05:10
You know I love that kind of that that ambiguous place between good and evil that that that we
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dance in and I think that's exciting it there's some complexity there and I'd like to continue
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down that path for sure.
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Well I think whoever you play with you sort of on some level you you you you agree with
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them because you're you're investing in their train of thought a bit you know what I mean and
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you can't really judge them too much I I find you know because you've got to be on their side
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bad or good particularly if they are bad you've got to convince everyone that they're truthfully
05:44
bad but I suppose you know the interesting thing about it is is can you find something
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in there that people latch on to whether they disagree with him or not and still like.
05:53
You know I hear people talk talk about Marvel DC but I think look there are great actors
05:58
great directors great writers great artists great you know creative people on either side
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and you know a lot to enjoy with with with either side.
06:10
You know the rivalry is not such a bad thing a little competition goes a long way and it
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really help it pushes people to work harder to dig deeper and so I think that audiences
06:22
probably benefit from that and I love Zack I love the the the Snyder verse and you know
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I hope they keep on on putting material putting work out.
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Jared is obviously you know he's had 20 odd years at a really high level and thrown out
06:37
some great performances in uh many many films so it was um fantastic yeah yeah he um you know
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he had he's obviously he's got a very invested process and it was really interesting to sort
06:48
of be part of that um yeah it was a it was a pleasure to to to see him work with.
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