- You are moving onto the big screen with your new project for World War Z so how has filming been going on that?
Filming has been going great - it has been a big fun crazy summer. We have been filming mostly around London and then also we were down in Cornwall and in Scotland.
- So how did the movie come about?
I was filming the first season of The Killing up in Vancouver and I was asked to put myself on a tape for World War Z - so I did in my living room late one night after shooting with my husband reading in the lines (laughs).
It was very silly. But there was something about it that they like and Marc Forster (director) asked me to come down to meet him - and it pretty much went like that.
- The film sees you joined by a great cast so how are you finding shooting with Brad Pitt & Matthew Fox
They are wonderful guys! They really are really generous, collaborative and lovely people to work with.
I have been really moved by how much of an ensemble it feels and how open everyone is to figuring out the best way to tell the story - it's been lovely.
- How does working in movies compare/differ to working on a TV project?
The biggest difference is the pacing, on The Killing we were shooting an episode every seven days; sometime we would do six or seven pages a day. But on this film we do a page and a half a day (laughs).
That is not the pace for all films because this is an action movie everything takes to set up - but that has been the main difference just everything slowing down.
- Do you like that slower pace or are you quite comfortable working reasonably quickly?
There's really fun things about both. I am just really glad to have both experiences; but sometime it is great to know 'we are going to do this in three takes' and you just throw yourself in and get it done.
And then for other projects it like 'I don't have to rush' and 'I can be in this make up chair for two hours' - there are good things about both.
- And how much are movies something that you now want to focus on or are you happy moving between the two mediums?
I am very happy moving between - especially because the TV that I am doing is for AMC and it is the best possible place that you can work in television.
- Finally what's next for you?
I am going to be shooing another film, The Gangster Squad, in October and then I have the second season of The Killing in November.
The Killing is released on Blu-ray and DVD on 26 September from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw
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