
Chris Evans Talks Fantastic Four!
While
promoting his latest movie, the cell phone thriller Cellular,
Chris Evans told journalists that he is now one week into filming
The
Fantastic Four. Right now, the cast is just
going through some early dialogue scenes. "We haven't
had much action yet," Evans said.
"I think the whole first couple weeks is mostly dialogue."
Evans knows what he's in for
later in the shoot, as the action sequences pick up, but he's
prepared. "I'm not dreading anything. I think the
only thing that's going to be difficult is all the harness work.
I'm going to be in a harness a lot of the time for a lot of flying
stuff, so I bet that's going to be pretty uncomfortable."
Most of the central cast has
been on the set for the first week of shooting, including - Ioan
Gruffudd, Jessica Alba and Michael Chiklis. However, Chiklis has
not come out in his Thing costume yet, and Evans can't wait to
see him. "No, no, no. They're not going to do computer
stuff with The Thing. Did you see Hellboy? It's that type of [costume].
I haven't even seen it yet. I am so excited to see it. So he's
going to have the full body thing and I've heard it looks awesome.
I was talking to the director's assistant the other day. He said
you look at it and it looks real. You get close, you'll be like,
'It looks like rock.' I can't wait to see it. I'm so psyched."
Evans
will have to resist the temptation to poke Chiklis's suit. "I'm
going to be as accommodating. I'm going to do whatever he tells
me to do. I can't even imagine being in that outfit for an entire
day, so I think everyone's just going to be really sensitive to
his needs. Anything Chiklis wants, if he wants us to talk to him
and keep him occupied, we'll talk to him. If he wants us to leave
him the hell alone, we're going to leave him the hell alone. I
think he has it hard. It's not going to be easy and I think we're
all going to be ready to assist."
The costume that the other actors
will wear is also slightly enhanced. "The beauty is
the Fantastic Four uniform is this form fitting blue outfit. So
they make these really cool, blue almost like wetsuits, but since
we all don't have the perfect bodies for these wetsuits, they
gave us muscle suits. These little suits that you put on first
that have rubber muscles that are actually form fitted to our
bodies. They do these body casts and then they add muscle in certain
places where it's needed. So you put on this muscle suit and then
you put on this blue uniform and you just walk around like you're
chiseled out of stone, so it's great. I'm happy."
As it turns out, not everybody
needed the muscle enhancement. "Actually, you know
what? I don't think they gave Alba a muscle suit. But they made
me wear one which is kind of upsetting, a little disappointing,
but Alba does not have the muscle suit. Ioan and I do."
FANTASTIC FOUR OPENS 2005
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