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with MICHAEL DOUGLAS

daughter [Evangeline Lilly]. I don’t think we wanted to dwell on it, but it pays off a little later in the picture. Marvel likes to hide lots of Easter eggs and secret references in their movies.Were you aware of them when you were shooting the film? I became aware as they explained them to me. I was a babe in the woods, so what can I say? I love the curiosity and the zealousness in which a lot of the audiences follow these pieces. But I was aware, of course, of the Wasp at the end of the movie and its significance. Was theWasp reveal always planned to be a stinger scene with the end credits? It was a little scene that they added halfway through the picture. Maybe they were going to have it all along – but they start on a broad canvas and then they narrow it down in terms of the relationships that are working. It goes from there really. The opening sequence of the movie is a flashback scene with Hayley Atwell’s character, Peggy Carter. Did you understand the relevance of that scene when you were shooting it? They explained it to me. They explained why a young, attractive woman on a television series was now playing an older woman – and why I was playing my character 30 years younger than he is for the rest of the movie. She and I did not have a chance to talk too much. She was in the middle of her series [Agent Carter], so she just came down for that one quick scene. What do you think of the scene? When I went into record some extra dialogue after the movie was shot, that scene was half finished, so one half of me had little spots all over my face – and I was wearing the wig with all that hair – and the other half had been completed. Through the magic of

entertainment release of Marvel’s Ant-Man, how does it feel to know that audiences will soon be able to watch the movie in the comfort of their own home? Historically, the movies that you

buy are the movies that you cherish the most, so I think it’s great. When I think back to the first picture I produced, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest; when we put that out in the Blu-ray format, viewers got lots of background information and things that weren’t in the movie. They got a lot of behind-the- scenes information. It’s a joy for people that are real fans to see what was going on when we were making the movie. Do you have a large Blu-ray collection at home? I’ve got a pretty good Blu-ray collection, but my problem is that I rarely have time to look at it. I don’t know how people find the time. It’s the same thing

There’s no need to do remakes anymore. I’ll just remake some of my movies with myself playing the part!

computer graphics, I looked 30 years younger. I don’t know how to describe it, but it’s like looking at yourself 30 years ago. There’s no need to do remakes anymore. I’ll just remake some of my movies with myself playing the part!

with people who watch box sets and they go right through three years of a series. I have no idea how people have the time!

• Ant-Man is out now at JB Hi-Fi

With the impending home

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