Chris Evans admits that he didn’t understand the script for Snowpiercer, but despite this, he relied entirely on director Bong Joon Ho during the filming of the film.
Chris Evans admits he didn’t understand the Snowpiercer script during the filming of the 2013 film directed by Bong Joon-ho. The actor spoke about this in a new interview with GQ, during which he shared his experience of working with the Oscar-winning director. Captain America actor showed that he trusts Bong Joon Ho completely and his vision, although at first he did not understand the script and had many questions about the rules that apply in the dystopian world of Snowpiercer.
“When I first read the script, I didn’t quite understand it. I said to myself, “So what does this mean?” When a film builds a dystopian world, it creates an environment that is completely divorced from reality. And you will have to work hard to accept this new reality as the new normal.“, said the actor.
Evans continued talking about the film’s director: “Bong is a visionary. When you work with someone who knows exactly what they want, even if it’s not exactly how you see it, trust develops. And for an actor this is the most important thing: to trust the director, otherwise every take becomes a problem. And when you have a director as confident in his vision as Bong, you think, “Great.” You ask me to jump, I say: “How high?”.
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Chris Evans on dystopian films
During the interview, Chris Evans talked about what it was like to star in a dystopian film, praising his co-star Tilda Swinton, who plays Mason in Snowpiercer. “When you make a movie like this, you have to decide which part of your brain to devote to the work. Either you take the intimacy route and make sure we’re only talking about the character, or you try to understand what it meant for this company to get to this point. This is definitely a challenge. An example in this sense is Tilda Swinton, who uses this approach in the film to interpret her larger-than-life character.Snowpiercer was released in 2013. It was adapted into a television series for Netflix in 2020. The series stars Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly and Daveed Diggs.