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“Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania”: “Thanks to Jean-Marc Vallée I got this role” – Kathryn Newton

As a child, she saw herself starring in a Marvel film. It is now complete as she plays Cassie Lang, daughter of Ant-Man played by Paul Rudd. Yes, Kathryn Newton is living her childhood dream and she gave us a behind-the-scenes look at the movie.

Kathryn Newton discovered her first Marvel with her father. “I think I saw Iron Man when I was eight. And since that time, I’ve always wanted to be a Marvel superhero, that’s what made me dream,” she told media gathered during the film’s presentation press conference in Los Angeles last week.

In Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) rose to fame after saving the world from the clutches of Thanos. Hope aka The Wasp (Evangeline Lilly) takes care of the family multinational, while Hank (Michael Douglas), Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Cassie (Kathryn Newton) conduct various experiments and research in the quantum realm. But an accident drives them all into this strange universe in which they are confronted with the conqueror Kang (Jonathan Majors), his lackey MODOK (Corey Stoll), but also strange beings like Krylar (Bill Murray) or Quaz (William Jackson Harper). ) and Jentorra (Katy O’Brian).

Work…

Kathryn Newton is not a newcomer. She began her career at the age of four on the “soap” All My Children and made her first steps on the big screen in Sale prof opposite Cameron Diaz. Success, she hit it by giving the answer to Ryan Reynolds and Justice Smith in Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (in which she was also dubbed by Ludivine Reding in the French version presented in Quebec).

She owes her role in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania to Sarah Finn, sales manager for Three Posters near Ebbing, Missouri and Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, two feature films in which we find Kathryn Newton.

“She believed in me,” she said in an interview with QMI Agency while she was in Toronto. I then had a meeting with Peyton Reed, the director. I’ve been in my closet because it’s the quietest place in the house since I’ve had three poodles. We talked about Cassie Lang, the story of a father and daughter finding each other, and a new villain named Kang. I remember telling her it was going to be an amazing film and that the actress chosen to play Cassie was going to have a wonderful experience.

Kathryn Newton

“A week later, I was answering reporters’ questions for Freaky and said ‘A superhero’ when asked what my ideal role was. And a few days later I got the call offering me the role of Cassie!” she added.

In the Quantum Realm, Cassie gets her hands dirty. She now has a costume similar to her father Scott’s, allowing her to fight, shrink, and grow huge.

“I started my training half a year before we started shooting, I act in more than half of the film,” she explained to us. Peyton didn’t want me to change my body at all, I had to learn stamina since Cassie is young. Most importantly, I learned to fall and take the hits. It allowed me to have confidence and shoot for 10 hours without breaking down. I’m athletic, I’m a golfer, so I felt like I’d trained my whole life for that role.”

The Legacy of Jean-Marc Vallée

Before and during filming, Kathryn Newton was able to rely on Paul Rudd for good advice.

“Paul is just the nicest person in the world. He encouraged me to take risks and not censor myself. He told me that it was normal to be afraid of not knowing and that I needed to practice letting go. Quite simply, I want to look like him now. That’s why the father-daughter relationship was so easy to establish. It’s open and gave me all the space I needed to have fun.”

Because “on set, the quantum realm was total chaos,” she explained, citing the fact that the actors had no idea what the special effects department would add in post-production. “I had no idea what I was seeing, it didn’t make any sense. And I’m so happy with the end result. That’s what I love about Marvel, they’re films that transport you somewhere else, a bit like a fairy tale.

On television, she was in the dissemination of Little Secrets, Big Lies and therefore worked under the direction of Jean-Marc Vallée, whose working techniques taught her a lot.

“Marvel movies have always inspired me and made me dream. The fact of having worked with Jean-Marc Vallée is one of the reasons why I’m part of this film, it’s thanks to him that I got this role. You know, everything always leads somewhere, she said. I had a very small role in Little Secrets, Big Lies, but Jean-Marc encouraged me to take my place, as did Paul and Peyton.

“We think making a Marvel movie is going to be a very technical exercise, but it was a very similar process to Little Secrets, Big Lies. Jean-Marc Vallée didn’t want us to rehearse, we didn’t rehearse for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. We have tried everything. We approached the characters of this Ant-Man as if they were an independent production and focused on the heart of the story, which is basically that of a father and his daughter. I like to say that this film is a “road movie” through the quantum world, a “road movie” between a father and his daughter. And if you think about it, it’s a low-budget film,” concluded Kathryn Newton.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania hits provincial cinemas on February 17.

Kang the Conqueror, the very evil villain…

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is the film that not only kicks off the fifth phase of the MCU, but also introduces Kang the Conqueror, the superhero’s new enemy.

Jonathan Majors played the villain in the Loki series and reconnects with his character by revealing key details during the press conference.

“Who is Kan? I think that’s a question we’ll be answering for a very long time.”

“The quick answer is that Kang is a time-travelling supervillain and also a ‘Nexus Being.’ [NDLR: un être capable de modifier le futur, comme Wanda Maximoff, Vision et… Jean Grey]which opens up this notion of possible variations.”

“So there are multiple versions of variations of Kang. These occupy different universes, different multiverses. They have different intentions because they are completely different people.”