The actress explains why Orson Scott Card's sci-fi novel has withstood the test of time in this exclusive interview.
How do you think video games have changed how kids interact with the world in terms of hand-eye coordination and the way that they think?
I’m not much of a gamer myself, but if I could sort of assume how it’s helped. Playing a video game is like putting yourself in a situation that’s so extreme that you would never really find yourself actually doing, but you’re still a part of it and you’re interacting and you’re trying to figure out how things are going to work and what’s going to happen, when it’s going to happen. Video games make you think in a different way and you use that when going about your everyday life.
What would the Ender’s Game video game be?
Oh, man. I don’t know. It would be very much like the movie, I think. That’s a tough question.
What’s your favorite memory from the making of the film?
Oh, man, there was this one time where all of us were filming a scene where we’re all jumping out of the gate into the Battle Room into zero gravity and the way they set it up was almost like a zip line. We all were on the same one, so that ended with all of us like colliding at the end of the zip line once we were all out of the gate. There were a bunch of us swaying, laughing, trying so hard to stay quiet until the last person got out. There was a lot of that happening. But there were so many moments that I remember that were fun.
What’s it like seeing the movie now in its completed phase from having been just on green screen?
It’s so weird. It’s so visually beautiful and the neat thing is having done it where we’re 20 feet up in the air and Gavin, our director, is down on the ground with a microphone explaining what’s happening and what’s about to happen. When I watch the film, I hear him talking us through what’s happening, and it’s just brought to life and it’s so beautiful and it’s really amazing to see.
