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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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00:00Congratulations you're making your Marvel debut. What was it like when you

00:04got the call saying that you were gonna be a part of this?

00:06Oh well you know what I actually, this is a fun story, the night I won the

00:13SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress for West Side Story, my team took me to

00:18dinner and a waiter came and brought out a dessert and he said here you go

00:23Calypso and I was like I'm sorry what? Like looked at him like he had seven

00:27heads and my team was like you got the job and I said oh my god we had like a

00:31really fun celebration and it was a really glorious night yeah it was cool I

00:36was terrified but also very excited. And to be able to kind of like debut a

00:43Marvel character or comic book character in this way has to be really exciting

00:47what was it like to be on that set and sort of build out the dynamic with Aaron

00:51Taylor Johnson do you feel like there was anything that you guys did to build

00:54that chemistry or would you say it was pretty instant? I personally felt our

00:59chemistry was instant you might would have to ask him Aaron is an exceptionally

01:05talented actor he loves to spar he both finds the depth of a character and and

01:12the humor and everything in between and that's a really fun person to be in the

01:18sandbox with I think he in the context of our of our work together I was very

01:22inspired by him at different points he played a scene in a creek with a fish

01:28that I just never seen a funnier moment and I I was like I gotta I'm gonna work

01:33on my my own like sense of freedom and play and he was very inspiring to me we

01:40I had a really good time mind you we made this movie over quite a long time

01:46but I learned a lot about you know continuity and and and being even more

01:53malleable than even I expected to be I think when you bring characters that

01:58derive from comics to the screen there is a certain amount of expectation but

02:03also this film with JC Chandor's direction it is a departure from the

02:08traditional styles that you have seen from the Sony Marvel Universe it is a

02:13stand-alone film so that did give us a lot of freedom because we don't tie into

02:17other things and I personally was very liberated by that because it allowed me

02:22to kind of go to Calypso's origins and play a very layered woman coming to a

02:30transitional time in her life meeting an unexpected partner because you don't

02:35expect a partner in crime or or not crime to look like that his costumes are

02:43his arms and his abs so it's it's a beautiful thing very quickly I wanted to

02:48ask we have our question of the week where we're asking the same thing to

02:50everyone on the carpet so what is your favorite movie of 2024 outside of your

02:55own 2024 outside of my own that is a really hard question because I watch a

03:04lot of movies I did thoroughly enjoy Wicked I'm not gonna lie it's like it's

03:13very much at the forefront of my mind I really enjoyed that film the sisterhood

03:19well it's like I think it's great to explore that kind of love between

03:22friends you know what I mean it's very deep especially amongst women and the

03:27world that they created and how how they did that with such attention to detail

03:31the costumes the DP the the sets oh my god I've just I'm very rent-free living

03:38rent-free totally fine like also all hail Michelle Yeoh Bowen Yang Cynthia

03:43and Ariana I'm just like well done so that that's what's on my mind right now

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