Here is, indeed, an underworld.
I even give a try at deducing whether the prodigal child might appear in the picture.
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How did you come to this project and the Underworld universe?
Anna Foerster:Yes, its really interesting.
And I was like, Yeah, absolutely.
Ive seen the first one and loved the first one.
And there you go, the next thing you knew, we started talkingUnderworld.
So youre bringing an outsiders perspective and new blood to the series.
And I truly think Len had created something amazing with the first one.
So it was a great challenge.
What was your relationship with Kate while making it and how did it evolve?
Also, what do you think she was looking for by coming back to the character?
[Laughs]
So that helped a lot, and then she knows Selene through and through.
In that the movie starts, the story starts, with somebody who has lost everything.
She has lost everything she loves: her lover, her daughter, her coven.
Shes an outcast, basically.
So her daughter will pass away between the two films?
That is not what I said!
[Laughs] No, but if you just lose track of somebody or whatever.
SoI cant say that, sorry.
So that was really fun to work with her and explore that.
Could you talk about how that decision came about?
Theo James is coming back in this as David.
Could you talk about what his relationship is like with Selene at this point?
Yeah, its interesting, because David is becoming, in a classical way, hes the reluctant hero.
He has to discover who he really is in the bigger sense of vampire hierarchy, and vampire coven.
A debt, exactly.
One of the things fans are anxious about are of course the characters of Michael and Eve.
Would you say the answers involve her loved ones and trying to seek closure?
They definitely have something to do with that, yes.
Could you talk about his character and the role he has in the movie?
That was an intense episode.
[Laughs] Exactly!
Hes intelligent, he has his own laws, his own ideas about how to raise the lycan coven.
This is one of the things that was so important.
Youre talking about those lycans as a group, and to me, its like theyre essentially a pack.
Theyre behaving like a pack in a way, in the way the dynamic works within them.
Its like theres the alpha male, and you have a pack.
Because theres a different dynamic; its an animalistic dynamic.
Is it maybe more democratic?
Well, I dont know if its more democratic.
If you look at a pack of animals, a pack of wolves, I dont know.
But its still the hierarchy of pack.
I also think it continues the great tradition of really good English thespians in this franchise.
Obviously Kate, but also Derek Jaccobi, Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy.
Generally, the cast, I couldnt have been more thrilled with Lara Pulver, who plays Semira.
And Charles Dance is obviously great.
Were you involved in casting all of them when you came onto the project?
Yes, I definitely cast Tobias.
She had never been on a movie set before.
And what is her role?
Lena, she is the blonde girl from the north you might see in the trailer today.
Theres always talk about what the franchise might be down the road.
Has Kate talked to you about whether she would like to wear the black leather for another film?
I mean she has not talked to me about it.
This was wonderful, thank you.
Awesome, thank you.
