Watch video below as Asa Butterfield talks about the importance of Peter and Valentine and how much he loved the script.
Category: Cast
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VIDEO: Hailee Steinfeld on Life in Battle School
Watch the video below to see Hailee Steinfeld talking about life in Battle School and what it was like working with Asa Butterfield, Gavin Hood, and stunt coordinator Garrett Warren. She talks about walking into “Flash Suit City” for the first time, someplace I’m sure we all wish we could go!
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VIDEO: Harrison Ford and Ben Kingsley Talk ‘Ender’s Game’ Plus More Behind the Scenes
In this video released by the Associated Press, star Harrison Ford discusses his role and why he was attracted to Ender’s Game. Ford is asked the question of whether he gave advice to his young co-stars and responds that he doesn’t think it’s appropriate because they were all very evolved as actors. The video also features some cool behind-the-scenes footage!
Sir Ben talks about the effect of his facial tattoos while we’re treated to a look at Ender and Mazer sitting at a table and then Gavin Hood as he directs Kingsley in a scene.
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Starry Mag Talks to Aramis Knight
Starry Mag did an interview with Aramis Knight and talked to him about his experience on set, how much he’s grown since filming, and why he appreciates his fans so much.
Q) Was that your most memorable moment from filming?
A) That was probably my best life experience ever and there probably won’t be a better one than that. There are so many different moments though that I can think of off the top of my head. The most memorable that I’ll remember in thirty years is being at space camp. Also, my mother makes jokes about this all the time that I went into New Orleans as a boy and came out a man, physically and mentally. I came out with more life experiences because of the situations I was put in. It was kind of crazy! All my family that saw me right when I came back just looked at me and said, “Wow! You grew a lot!” I think when we went to New Orleans I was 4’7 and when I came back I was 5’0. Now, I’m 5’6! So, I’ve grown quite a bit over that time. Probably the best life experience I had though was space camp because there were so many emotions and things that I had to control. There were so many things I realized about myself there, as well.
Q) What do you think it is about Ender’s Game that will really want to make people go see it?
A) Other than the great cast…It’s probably the special effects. I’ve seen bits and pieces of the movie so I’ve seen a lot of the graphics and effects are really visually stunning. Your jaw just kind of drops. It almost makes you want to cry because it is so overwhelming! The visuals are just crazy and beautiful. I think in the movie the chemistry that us boys have is going to shine through – the love that we have for each other that the characters had and that we also had for each other in real life. I think the friendships that they are going to see through our characters are going to make people love it and make them want to see us more. Let’s hope for sequels because I’d really love to hang out with the boys again!
Q) You’re a part of the social networking site Twitter. Why is that such an important way for you to connect with your fans?
A) I know the fans are everything to my career. I want to go many places and I can’t do that without my fans. They are the most important thing when it comes to getting to the places that I want to get to. I love to show my appreciation to them, talk to them and get to know them. I try to respond to everyone that I can. It’s definitely a big part of my career.
Q) What would you like to say to everyone who is a fan and supporter of you and your work?
A) I would just like to say thank you because they are what gives me the motivation to do I do. I realize that I can bring so much joy and see the excitement to their faces. When I was at Comic-Con a lot of people knew who I was and just the excitement on their faces seeing me become Bean was so touching to me. The joy I could bring them was really awesome. So, I’d love to keep doing more of it!
To read the whole interview, go to Starry Mag.
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VIDEO: Harrison Ford Talks Ender’s Game with Graham Norton
Last night, Harrison Ford was on BBC One’s Graham Norton Show to promote Ender’s Game. The whole show was hilarious as usual, Harrison Ford also talked about Halloween, Indiana Jones, and even a little bit about Star Wars, and it’s got some delicious Benedict Cumberbatch bits, so you might wanna watch the whole thing HERE! (Note: blocked in UK, US and Australia, but you can watch it in three parts HERE, HERE, and HERE)
Watch the part in which Harrison is talking about Ender’s Game below.
Source: BBC, Youtube
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GALLERY: Ender’s Game Photo Call / Press Conference in Moscow
After the London Ender’s Game event Harrison Ford, Gavin Hood, and Bob Orci went on to Moscow for a photo call and press conference at the Ritz Carlton Hotel Moscow. Photographer Mikhail Pochuyev took some awesome photos at the event. See some of them below! (via Corbis)
Check out the entire gallery HERE at Corbis!
Update: Ria Novosti has a few smaller, but not watermarked photos from the press conference HERE!
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GALLERY: Cast and Producers Present Ender’s Game in Berlin
Last Sunday, October 6th, Ender’s Game director Gavin Hood, producers Gigi Pritzker and Bob Orci, and cast members Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Harrison Ford and Ben Kingsley attended a photo call at Hotel Adlon, Berlin. The official German facebook page Ender’s Game – Das grosse Spiel released pictures from the event. Check some of them out below! See the rest HERE!
In addition, RedCarpetReports.de posted some higher resolution pictures from the photo call. See the best ones below! They have a little watermark in the lower right-hand corner, but since it’s pretty small and unobtrusive I’m sure you guys won’t mind.
Sources: Ender’s Game – Das grosse Spiel (Facebook page), RedCarpetReports.de
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GALLERY: Ender’s Game Photo Call London
On Monday, October 7th, most of the Ender’s Game cast and crew finished their European photo call tour in London (Ford, Hood and Orci went on to Moscow), where they presented the movie at Odeon Theatre during MCM London ComicCon. Check out some red carpet photos of Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Gavin Hood, Gigi Pritzker and Bob Orci below!
Source: Zimbio
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VIDEOS: Ender’s Game Cast and Crew at MCM London Comic Con
Before their presentation of Ender’s Game at the Odeon Leicester Square during MCM London Comic Con, Hailee Steinfeld, Sir Ben Kingsley, Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, and Gavin Hood talked to Entertainmentwise about Ender’s Game.
Not much new here, but I get some perverse enjoyment out of the reactions of Ben Kingsley, Asa Butterfield and, yes, Harrison Ford to being asked whether or not they would like to star/are starring in the next Star Wars movie. The Ben Kingsley one is cut off a bit in the beginning. If you’re interested in the whole Star Wars conversation, check it out HERE! Would someone please phone someone to get Ben Kingsley and Asa Butterfield into that movie. Look how excited they are at the prospect!
The fabulous five also talked to a couple of other news outlets prior to their London presentation. We already posted HeyUGuysUK’s interviews with Gavin Hood and Sir Ben Kingsley earlier this week. Their interviews with Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, and Harrison Ford don’t reveal anything new, but we didn’t want to keep them from you either way, so here they are:
Finally, The MCM Buzz interviewed the cast and crew on the Comic Con red carpet. Here is a video that collects some tidbits of what Gavin Hood and the four cast members had to say:
You can check out the full interviews with Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Sir Ben Kingsley, and Gavin Hood on the TheMCMBuzz Youtube channel. I love the Hailee Steinfeld and Ben Kingsley ones especially.
They even posted a somewhat rarer interview with Gigi Pritzker and Bob Orci. Check it out below.
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VIDEO: Sir Ben Kingsley on Acting with Tā Moko
Sir Ben Kingsley spoke with HeyUGuysUK in London tonight about what it was like for him to act with Maori tā moko on his face.
I didn’t feel any conscious difference on my face and it’s not a tattoo on my arm that I can look at on my arm and sort of enjoy or have a rapport with but […] it changed the way the other actors looked at me and that was really interesting, how they were trying to decipher my face and wonder what it meant and how dangerous and threatening it was. It affected them more than it affected me. It’s good, it was great.
Source: HeyUGuysUK
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VIDEO: Harrison Ford Talks Ender’s Game on Wetten Dass …?
As promised, here is Harrison Ford talking about Ender’s Game on Wetten Dass …? last night in Bremen. He is pretty hard to understand due to the tranlsator’s voice being much louder than his own, so there’s a transcript below the vid. Enjoy!
Translation/Transcript:
Host: A young boy is asked to save the world. What is the general idea behind this?
Ford: He does save the world. This takes place in the future. Obviously it’s a kind of science fiction, but I think unlike the kind of science fiction you see, you’ve seen before, it has real heart and emotion. It’s, I think, a very powerful story about a young man who learns leadership, the challenges of leadership. I play the man who’s responsible for training him. It proposes that in the future, there is a world government and we have a combined military force, the International Fleet. And we have been invaded once before by an alien life form that you got a brief glimpse of there [in the CLIP they aired before] and suffered real damage from this alien life form, and we know they are coming again. And the proposition is that young people really integrate complex data more quickly than adults. So the soldiers, or warriors, of this period are fighting with drone warfare. The book, which is 28 years old, and this is a bestseller, predicted the internet, predicted touch screen technology, predicted drone warfare. And all of that has come true, and its a … the story is very compelling.
Host: A very interesting story, of which we shouldn’t give away too much, and a very visionary book this film is based on. The movie will have its great opening in Germany on October 24th.I had hoped for a bit more information concerning the production of the movie, his co-stars etc., but I guess between having him talk about Indiana Jones and his planes and having him bet on whether a guy could throw five eggs over a beer tent and catch them on the other side with a frying pan, there just wasn’t enough time to talk about this movie some more. Meh. Still, it’s something, and we got an awesome clip with that.
Source: ZDFneo
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Harrison Ford to Appear on Wetten Dass …?
Listen up, everyone! Harrison Ford is going to be on German TV in about 20 minutes, and he is most likely going to promote Ender’s Game! Harrison is to be a guest at Wetten Dass …? (“Bet you that …”), the biggest German show in existence (or at least it used to be). Other guests include Silvester Stallone and Cher. The show airs live, and you may even be able to stream it here: http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek#/hauptnavigation/startseite (the show will be available there for a number of days afterwards)
A fair warning, though: the show has a high potential to be embarrassing. Tom Hanks and Halle Berry were apparently quite “perturbed” last year. Also, it runs for 2 and a half hours, although Harrison may not be there for all of it.
Source: ZDF Mediathek, Morgenpost
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GALLERY: Asa, Hailee, Gavin, Ben, and Harrison in Madrid
The cast of Ender’s Game have made it to Madrid, Spain for another photo call! Check out photos of Gavin Hood, Hailee Steinfeld, Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, and Harrison Ford below!
Source: Zimbio
