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Ariana DeBose Found Out She Got the Role for 'Kraven the Hunter' After Winning a SAG Award | THR Video
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12/11/2024
Ariana DeBose recalls the moment she found out she landed her role as Calypso in 'Kraven the Hunter' with THR at the film's premiere. Plus, she dishes on working with Aaron Taylor-Johnson and their instant chemistry.
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Congratulations you're making your Marvel debut. What was it like when you
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got the call saying that you were gonna be a part of this?
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Oh well you know what I actually, this is a fun story, the night I won the
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SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress for West Side Story, my team took me to
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dinner and a waiter came and brought out a dessert and he said here you go
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Calypso and I was like I'm sorry what? Like looked at him like he had seven
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heads and my team was like you got the job and I said oh my god we had like a
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really fun celebration and it was a really glorious night yeah it was cool I
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was terrified but also very excited. And to be able to kind of like debut a
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Marvel character or comic book character in this way has to be really exciting
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what was it like to be on that set and sort of build out the dynamic with Aaron
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Taylor Johnson do you feel like there was anything that you guys did to build
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that chemistry or would you say it was pretty instant? I personally felt our
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chemistry was instant you might would have to ask him Aaron is an exceptionally
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talented actor he loves to spar he both finds the depth of a character and and
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the humor and everything in between and that's a really fun person to be in the
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sandbox with I think he in the context of our of our work together I was very
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inspired by him at different points he played a scene in a creek with a fish
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that I just never seen a funnier moment and I I was like I gotta I'm gonna work
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on my my own like sense of freedom and play and he was very inspiring to me we
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I had a really good time mind you we made this movie over quite a long time
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but I learned a lot about you know continuity and and and being even more
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malleable than even I expected to be I think when you bring characters that
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derive from comics to the screen there is a certain amount of expectation but
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also this film with JC Chandor's direction it is a departure from the
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traditional styles that you have seen from the Sony Marvel Universe it is a
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stand-alone film so that did give us a lot of freedom because we don't tie into
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other things and I personally was very liberated by that because it allowed me
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to kind of go to Calypso's origins and play a very layered woman coming to a
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transitional time in her life meeting an unexpected partner because you don't
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expect a partner in crime or or not crime to look like that his costumes are
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his arms and his abs so it's it's a beautiful thing very quickly I wanted to
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ask we have our question of the week where we're asking the same thing to
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everyone on the carpet so what is your favorite movie of 2024 outside of your
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own 2024 outside of my own that is a really hard question because I watch a
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lot of movies I did thoroughly enjoy Wicked I'm not gonna lie it's like it's
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very much at the forefront of my mind I really enjoyed that film the sisterhood
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well it's like I think it's great to explore that kind of love between
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friends you know what I mean it's very deep especially amongst women and the
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world that they created and how how they did that with such attention to detail
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the costumes the DP the the sets oh my god I've just I'm very rent-free living
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rent-free totally fine like also all hail Michelle Yeoh Bowen Yang Cynthia
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and Ariana I'm just like well done so that that's what's on my mind right now
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