Joss Whedon, Elizabeth Olsen, Aaron Taylor-Johnson Talk AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON
As the May 1st (USA) release date for Avengers: Age of Ultron draws closer, several set visit interviews have been released. Because some of these interviews are done months in advance they overlap with things already released and talked about months ago. In the sprit of brevity, I'm condensing three Buzzfeed interviews to just the things that are are new/interesting.
Director Joss Whedon on Quicksilver:
"Pietro has always been kind of a dick. Aaron [Johnson] is so beautiful — like sculpture beautiful — that you buy him as somebody who’s going to be a little arrogant. He’s not as a person. He’s a dear. He works his ass off. But I knew that he could play that guy.”
Aaron-Taylor Johnson (Quicksilver) on the first days of shooting:
“Stepping onto the set is quite daunting, scary, overwhelming, surreal. I remember the first week I was like, I’m doing an eastern European accent, I’ve got a white wig, and it’s sort of not yet fitting right. I’m going to be a rookie on set. And they’re going to put us through initiation tests to fuck with us.”
Thankfully that was not the case at all. Johnson talks about what really happened:
“Downey actually did a little dinner for us all. It was both Chrises, Mark, Jeremy, me, Lizzie, a couple nights before we had a big scene. … Everyone looks out for one another. It’s a real family. It’s really nice. You know, someone like that knows the power they have. The fact that they do that — it’s brilliant.”
Elizabeth Olsen (Scarlet Witch) on Whedon:
“I think he’s having a lot of fun working with Aaron and me, because he didn’t inherit characters. He was able to create characters with us. We get to have, like, the origin story. Anything from the accent to the movements to our personalities has not been a conversation we had with anyone else on another film. It’s just within this world.”
I can't wait to see how Quicksilver's powers in Age of Ultron will differ from how his super speed was portrayed in X-Men: Days of Future Past and the type of effects used on The Flash TV show.