And if the fans like this idea of movies that are rooted more in the games, I think we'd all be really on board to carry that on. So would you like to explore more of Claire's journey in the game series in potential future movies?ĭefinitely, we leave our movie very open to that possibility because there's so much further that the characters do go. We just had to fill in a couple of gaps for a great horror genre movie. It made complete sense to me as to why you would want to transfer that into a feature film. It was also amazing to see how much of a narrative there is. So we ended up just watching YouTube videos of other people playing - I had no idea how scary it was. And then about five minutes after that, he couldn't handle it either. I started playing, and after about five minutes, I asked my husband to take over. Once I started researching, I bought my first ever PlayStation and the game. When the script first came through, I knew of the movies and thought they were really fun, with that shiny, neon, early 2000s vibe. How aware of the Resident Evil games and Claire Redfield were you when you've got this role?

I think we were all on edge whilst filming, which lent itself brilliantly to what we were doing and forced us to quite an intense bond. We shot everything at night - it was incredibly cold. It was the first time I was away from my family for three months. But it meant that there was no socializing it wasn't my normal job at all. We were one of the first major productions to go back during the pandemic, so we shot before vaccines were available - our COVID team was incredible. So it was very easy to kind of place Raccoon City in that world. Lovely people, but it's got that atmosphere of a forgotten old industry town. We filmed in a Canadian town called Sudbury, which is an old mining town about four hours away from Toronto. She's experienced a great trauma in and gotten out of it, but she chooses to come back. My favorite kind of storytelling always revolves around a stranger coming to town, even if this is her childhood hometown. Scodelario: Ha, no! What I love about Claire in this movie is that she is our eyes into Raccoon City - she literally walks us into it. Kaya, did you feel welcome in Raccoon City?

Kennedy and Kaya Scodelario's Claire Redfield explore the spooky Raccoon Police Department. Here's a transcript of our conversations, lightly edited for clarity.Īvan Jogia's Leon S. I got to have fun Zoom chats with Scodelario, Jogia, Amell and Hopper ahead of the movie's release, and we covered the challenges of filming in the pandemic, jumping into the roles of characters they knew from games and their hopes for sequels. Kennedy, Robbie Amell from The Flash portrays legendary badass Chris Redfield and sneaky Albert Wesker is played by Tom Hopper of Umbrella Academy. Kaya Scodelario from Maze Runner plays the crusading Claire Redfield, Zombieland: Double Tap's Avan Jogia is rookie cop Leon S.

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