Just last week, we brought you an interview with Damon Lindelof, writer of director Ridley Scott‘s hotly anticipated sci-fi epic, Prometheus. The film starring Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Sean Harris, Guy Pearce, Patrick Wilson and Kate Dickie.
The film’s leading lady, Noomi Rapace (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows) recently spoke with Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten about her character in Ridley Scott‘s forthcoming sci-fi flick. While she didn’t divulge any big story details, she does reveal the depth to which the characters in the film have been developed.
“I play Elizabeth Shaw, researcher and archaeologist. She’s British but was raised in Africa because her father was a missionary. From him she learned to believe in God, and she has a strong inner self.She is the most complete person I have ever played. She has an inner light. She’s very stubborn and determined.
She lost her parents when she was a child, so she’s been alone from a young age. But she’s very intelligent. I know that when one has to survive alone from an early age, one becomes strong.
But also fragile, because the hurt child within her hasn’t been able to evolve in a natural way. You get easily hurt emotionally. She’s full of hope, a dreamer, a little naive.
Halfway through the movie a lot of things happen and she turns into a fighter. Another part of her comes to life.”
Rapace also had this to say about being inspired by Alien star Sigourney Weaver‘s character Ellen Ripley:
“There is a relationship there. I saw ‘Alien’ as a teenager and was blown away. Can it really be like that? She was the first female star. With ‘Alien’ and ‘Thelma and Louise’, Ridley has created a lot of hope and dreams.”
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Synopsis:
“Ridley Scott, director of “Alien” and “Blade Runner,” returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
Prometheus starring Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Sean Harris, Guy Pearce, Patrick Wilson and Kate Dickie is slated to hit theaters on June 8th, 2012.
