So will the replicant women be rising up against their human oppressors? This time, de Armas doesn't hesitate: "The future is female.
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De Armas, meanwhile, got something different altogether: For Joi, whom she describes as "unexpected, a surprise, in a way," she auditioned with a scene from the 2014 film Ex Machina as Ava, the intelligent android who manipulates the men holding her captive in a lab into helping her escape. "But this feels like there was more story to be told-it felt motivated by art." Hoeks did a scene from the original, too, as Roy Batty, the rebellious replicant hunted by Harrison Ford's Rick Deckard. " Blade Runner is my favorite movie, and I didn't want to be a part of something that was going to destroy that legacy," Davis says. Cast Ryan Gosling K / Joe Harrison Ford Rick Deckard Ana de Armas Joi Jared Leto Niander Wallace Carla Juri Dr. Davis read a Blade Runner scene as the sequined, street-savvy exotic dancer Zhora, whose rainy "retirement" by gunfire is now regarded as one of the most iconic death scenes of all time. "It was very freeing not to have to lean on my femininity or my sexiness," she says.īut Davis does let one clue slip: The scene each was asked to read at her first audition points to how her character fits into the 2049 story. debut, trained with a champion triathlete six hours a day, six days a week, for three months, gaining more than 15 pounds of muscle. To prepare for her role as Luv, the bone-chillingly fierce lieutenant to Jared Leto's villain, Neander Wallace, Hoeks, the 34-year-old Dutch actress making her major U.S. (See: Sean Young's over-the-top fur coat, Joanna Cassidy's clear rain jacket, and Daryl Hannah's extreme smoky eyes.) But the best part, of course: The women are bringing to life multidimensional, complex characters.even if they're not all flesh and blood.
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And the update (directed by Arrival film- maker Denis Villeneuve and executive-produced by Scott) will immerse moviegoers in a breathtaking futuristic world that will no doubt be as influential on fashion, beauty, and art as the stylish sci-fi original's was. On this episode of VICE Talks Film, we look back at the original Blade Runner with the people revisiting the story in a new sequel: Blade Runner 2049. The much-anticipated sequel picks up where Ridley Scott's 1982 dystopian classic, Blade Runner, left off, give or take 30 years.