Squadron 42: Behind the Scenes - Gillian Anderson

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   [Music] there's no hiding anything in those suits I don't think that I was quite prepared for how exposed you are in walking around and I was okay because at least mine was black the only thing to do really at that juncture is just to laugh laugh laugh at yourself laugh at the situation it was kind of fun it was Julian saste she was uh great playing Rachel McLaren the daughter of Admiral Bishop who's played by Gary Oldman she was a good sport we ran around did all these crazy motion sets with her and uh so she was game for everything it was made extremely friendly and comfortable very very quickly by the other actors and uh and by the director and and the

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   crew put your ego at the door uh and just have fun that's kind of what nice things that we're trying to do here is work with really good actors and have fun with them and try and get some of their magic into the digital world just another day incoming stay sharp you know I look like um Sandy the squirrel from SpongeBob it's just strange to be doing you know very very serious scenes with serious actors when you look when you look like that whatever technology was attached to us is picking up every single emotion it really kind of focuses your mind on on that this is a serious situation you've also got Gary hman and Mark Strong yeah we were going through a list of actresses that we thought um

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   would be believable as Gary's daughter and a strong person that would be able to lead the ship so you have to believe that this person is in command and is confident um you know all the things that I think Julian can be really well never gets old does it sir yeah it is so we're going to have Gary on the set and her but Gary will be at his station and she'll be at her station but really Gary's on the bridge of the cougary and Jillian's on the bridge of The Gauntlet I ordered you to fall back can't do that Admiral you're dead in the water and we can help you in our room was the plywood furniture and on the TV it was already surrounded by the ship as it will look that is just completely new for me and I think a lot of people too it took a lot of kind of explaining oh no don't you

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   get it that what is going on here and everybody goes oh my God her gun handling is much better than like uh like people don't she look good I mean like hey we you could capture the combat set if you want contact I need some cover now I think I held a gun on the fall but when I used to shoot guns on the xfiles um it you know it was a Sig s it was a you know a proper um issue metal heavy gun and these were uh pieces of wood stuck together painted gray I shot at uh huge aliens initially you know I was running around in my suit and shooting to a and then Chris said hang on like let me just show you what

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   these see that's actually the size of the creatures so they're pretty big oh yeah and this will work on them yes fire contact contact well I had a huge amount of fun and it wasn't embarrassing enough to not come back again it's a great day pretty amazing yeah like a dream come true to Anders and Space Marines and aliens and it's fun to have uh like great actors and also people you've sort of seen growing up I think they're going to bring the world alive and I think it'll be an experience that people haven't had in the game before I think it'll make the world much more immersive we're about to have company here they come w [Applause]