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By Matt Patches November 1, 2010 |
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Matt Patches: So Faster is in the can - are you on another movie or are you on a break right now?
Maggie Grace: I'm a running around LA as we speak.
Matt Patches: Oh, you're on the move?
Maggie Grace: Yeah, of course, I'm in L.A., where else would
I be but driving? I'm being very responsible. I've just pulled over, so I'm
being very responsible.
Matt Patches: Oh well that's good, hopefully you weren't
driving too fast?
Maggie Grace: No, unfortunately. I'm now driving about 10
miles per hour in my Prius which is much less glamorous than the Lotus that I
learned to drive. That car's much faster, but this one's less stressful.
Learning to drive stick on a 200,000 dollar car is a high stakes scenario for
me.
Matt Patches: What drew you in to the world that George
[Tillman Jr.] and the writers have created?
Maggie Grace: Yeah, let me just say that what attracted me
to this script was just how there's theses sort of archetypal characters that
we don't necessarily know much about at first, a lot of them don't even have
full names. You know we have [Johnson's character] Driver - in
the script they're referred as these sort of archetypal characters that we
don't know much about - and we're not really sure who's good and who's bad,
what's going on and I love-
Matt Patches: So you're character doesn't have a name?
Maggie Grace: Mine does - I'm Lily. Matt Patches: You lucked out.
Maggie Grace: Thank you! But yeah, I really loved that and
the way they shot - I mean I think you can see that from the trailer, there's
this beautiful 70s palette to it, and I thought it really stood out as far as
George's visual style as well, which was pretty cool.
Matt Patches: I know the movie is very secretive in terms of
the characters, but what can you me to set up Lily?
Maggie Grace: Yeah, I'm half of an uber-glamorous...I'd guess
I'd have to say high-end contract killer couple. [laughs] There's a mouthful.
Matt Patches: Who is you're partner in crime?
Maggie Grace: My partner in crime is played by Oliver
Jackson Coen, a young British dude, who is now much more skilled with guns than
he was few months ago, as am I. We had a blast, it was a lot of fun to shoot.
Matt Patches: Did you work with Dwayne at all?
Maggie Grace: No, not really, we didn't intersect very
much. I mean fingers crossed if there was ever a sequel, maybe those characters
would cross paths more often. I just think he is the sweetest man. No one said
a word about this man. I did my
homework before I cam on set, and everyone said, "That is the nicest person you
will ever work with." And it turned out to be true.