Lily Collins talks about PRIEST and landing the role of Snow White

As we reported yesterday, Lily Collins is set to play Snow White in Tarsem Singh's upcoming Snow White film. She starred opposite Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side and will be seen in the upcoming Paul Bettany sci-fi film Priest. Our friends at DailyBlam had the chance to interview the young actress while she was WonderCon, and she talked about her role in Priest and about landing the role of Snow White.

Here is what Collins had to say about starring in the action genre:

"It's such a departure from the only other film I've done, which is The Blind Side, and it was automatically appealing because the character Lucy goes... from being a damsel in distress because she's kidnapped to being in control of her destiny and being a fighter. So I liked the parallels of that kind of role.. and to be able to be a young girl who has this this empowerment about her."

Here is what she said when asked to describe Priest:

"It's an action-thriller based in a post-apocalyptic world... very Blade Runner-esque meets Mad Max. It's a world of muted tones with high energy... last night I saw the film in 3D for the first time and it was beautiful. You literally feel like you're in the city.. it's insane. I feel like it's the perfect way to bring the graphic novel to life."

Here is her response when asked about her favorite moment on set:

"There's this scene where I fly off the train. I'm in a tight corset for the whole movie but this time I had to have a harness under that so I was hardly able to breathe. And they flung me off.. I had to fall backwards off this train and 70 mile per hour winds were on me. I had to grab Paul [Bettany's] hand and literally I was screaming for dear life because it felt like I was being pulled away... and Paul's line is 'I'll never let you go' but the amount of times he'd let me go as a joke or because the winds were too strong I was screaming my head off. So I have fond memories of shooting that day but I was petrified; I'd never had to do something like that before."

She goes on to talk about working with Karl Urban:

"Oh, well he was my seducer/captor and he's so intense he would freak me out because he was so funny and then they would role camera and he would turn into this thing with his teeth in and [be] scary. He taught me a lot, you know, about immersing yourself into the role and just letting everything else disappear around you. He made it easy for me to be scared sometimes."

Collins is also set to star in an upcoming film called Moral Instruments. Here is what she had to say when asked about that film:

"I'm thrilled! Scott Stewart is directing it and Screen Gems is doing it. I'm a huge fan of the books, the fourth one is coming out in a day or two. I'm a fan just like all the other fans, so to be able to play this heroine that I love is an honor. It's crazy to think that [this] franchise is going to be based on a young girl.. but yesterday I found out I got cast as Snow White so that's going to happen first."

Here is what she had to say about Snow White:

"I can tell you that I read for it two days ago at three o'clock, met [the director] Tarsem that night and was cast yesterday. So.. I've read the script but it just happened so it's all new to me. It's a dream role, it's my favorite fairy tale growing up and I'm still shocked. I'm excited to meet the rest of the cast, because I haven't met anyone yet. It starts in June and I'm really excited for it."

Are you excited about Priest? What are your thoughts on Collins' casting as Snow White?