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