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Davalos Grows In Riddick
Alexa Davalos, who plays Kyra opposite Vin Diesel in the upcoming SF
movie The Chronicles of Riddick, told SCI FI Wire that she plays the
grown-up version of Jack, the girl who masqueraded as a boy in
Riddick's predecessor film, Pitch Black. "I think she's grown up and
really come to fight for herself and understand herself a bit more,"
Davalos said in an interview. "I think she's evolved quite a bit, and
yet has a lot of Jack inside of her."
Riddick picks up the story of the characters from Pitch Black five
years later. The fugitive Riddick (Diesel) encounters Kyra/Jack in the
Slam, an underground prison on the planet Crematoria. The role required
a lot of physical action from Davalos (best known to SF fans as Gwen
from The WB's vampire TV series Angel).
"Lots of stunt work," Davalos said. "Lots of fighting. Lots of weapons.
... Kyra actually carries a very small knife in her mouth, which has
been a large part of my training process, actually being able to
maneuver this very sharp object in my mouth."
Davalos added that her character and Riddick retain their bond from the
first movie. "There's a lot going on between Kyra and Riddick," she
said. "A lot. There's definitely a bond. There's all sorts of things.
She really looks up to him. She really, in a sense, wants to be him in
many ways." Riddick opens June 11.
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"Riddick" Gets Reshoots
(Thanks to Ban Fiennidi)
Posted: Friday Feb. 6, 2004 10:25pm (Au-EST)
Author: Garth Franklin
Always reliable LA
correspondent 'Joe S' is back with word that Universal's big budget Vin
Diesel actioneer "The Chronicles of Riddick" (a sort of "Pitch Black"
sequel) is about to undergo some extra filming:
"News of
some major additional photography on 'Chronicles'. In the vicinity of
$5M has been budgeted for at least seven days of filming in early March
in Vancouver Canada on the Vin Diesel sequel.
Some of the additional work apparently reverses the fatal fate of a
major character
whose demise had already been filmed during principal photography.
A close source to the production notes that actor Nick Chinlund "sort
of steals the
picture from Diesel". Other material includes additional SFX work".
Meanwhile actress Kristin Lehman recently spoke to Sci-Fi Wire
about her role in the film: "I play the only other Furyan in the film.
Vin is, as we know, a Furyan. And this, of course, is the odyssey for
him, to realize who he is, what he comes from, what his odyssey is. And
I am the Furyan who brings that out in him. I come to him".
As for the film itself, she describes it as "vast, it's
epic...tremendous in scope and tremendous in special effects".
We'll see for ourselves when the film opens in cinemas June 11th.
Thanks again to 'Joe S'.
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