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I've felt like an underdog
my whole life.
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But I was never tortured by it.
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I wasn't defined by gender.
I wasn't defined by color.
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I could be anything I wanted to be.
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I wasn't really interested
in being a princess.
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I didn't want to wear
the princess costume for Halloween.
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I was always the ninja.
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I was either a white ninja
or a black ninja or a red ninja.
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It was like every Halloween,
in a succession of eight Halloweens,
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I was just a ninja.
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{\an8}I loved action movies and science fiction.
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I loved icons like Whoopi Goldberg
and Sigourney Weaver,
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who at the time,
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were the only females that I knew of
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that were driving
the action-driven storylines.
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Come on!
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And I felt like
I could see myself in them.
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I'm unstoppable
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I'm a Porsche with no brakes
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I'm invincible
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Yeah, I win every single game
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I'm so powerful
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I don't need batteries to play
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I'm so confident
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Yeah, I'm unstoppable today
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Unstoppable today
Unstoppable today
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Unstoppable today
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I'm unstoppable today
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Gamora is the most dangerous assassin
in the universe.
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And she's a killing machine.
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{\an8}With a heart of gold
and a true sense of justice.
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{\an8}Gamora is incredibly gifted
in the art of violence.
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She can make you fall in love with her
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and slice your throat
in the same movement,
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which is pretty awesome.
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No!
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What the hell?
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I know who you are, Peter Quill!
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But as we peel
the onion back further
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through the course of Guardians 1
and into Guardians 2
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and into the Avengers films,
you realize that underneath it all, she's,
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in her own way,
on a quest to find out who she is.
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When Thanos took my homeworld,
he killed my parents in front of me.
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The one thing that the Guardians
each have in common is
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that they have experienced loss.
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Ronan murdered my wife, Ovette,
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and my daughter, Camaria.
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Drax has lost his family.
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So did Nebula.
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Quill has lost his mother.
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Groot lost his planet.
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Rocket has been experimented
on like a lab rat.
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And Gamora lost her family.
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Mother!
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The real moral spine of the team
has always been Gamora.
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{\an8}Because she's the one who has
the backstory of having been raised
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in such a incredibly
traumatic and hurtful way.
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Gamora. Surgically modified
and trained as a living weapon.
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The adopted daughter
of the Mad Titan, Thanos.
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Gamora was raised by Thanos
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and has a tragic backstory
of pain and misery.
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What's wrong, little one?
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Where's my mother?
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As a child, Thanos kills her parents
in front of her,
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which is an incredibly traumatic thing.
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- Uh-uh.
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{\an8}Thanos kind of adopted her
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{\an8}in a kidnapping way.
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She's a lone wolf,
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so she had to be strong
at a very young age.
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So, she grows up
not really having trust in people.
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I wanted Gamora to carry a kind of pain,
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a kind of melancholy that comes
with the loss of a loved one.
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That was relatable to me.
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Mother!
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That was why I wanted
to say yes to playing Gamora.
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My sisters and I went through
a lot of hardships growing up.
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We were victims of loss
because my father had passed away
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when we were very, very young,
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and we needed outlets
to deal with our grief.
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So, my older sister began painting.
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My younger sister became a great debater.
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And I started dancing.
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Dance gave me the ability
to communicate emotion
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when words were not around,
when words were not available.
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Dance, you're able to interpret loss.
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It gave me the ability
to imagine the unimaginable.
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It was a blank canvas
in a vast dark space,
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where I can be anything.
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As I grew up,
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dancing gave me an outlet
to deal with the fact that
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I was being massively bullied at school.
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It became like my weapon.
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And I feel that my background
as a dancer shaped who I am,
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not only as a person, but also,
it gave me the ability to pursue
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a very, you know,
great career, in action movies.
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I wouldn't be
as experienced in action movies,
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or even in science fiction movies,
had I not had a foundation in dance.
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Dance gave me the ability
to approach characters
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also from a physical point,
not just an internal one.
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Zoe was my number-one choice
for Gamora
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because she was a fantastic action hero
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and that's what we needed,
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{\an8}was somebody who had her depth
and had the magic in the eyes.
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{\an8}Which is what I look for in actors.
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{\an8}Somebody who you can look at their eyes
and they always feel present.
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There's always a lot of me
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that I unconsciously bleed
into the characters that I play.
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When I was putting Gamora together,
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I knew she was gonna be doing
a lot of action scenes
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and I just didn't want her to look like
the typical martial artist.
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And I thought, "What can I add to her?"
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The sword is her weapon of choice.
It's a very classic
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and old form of fighting.
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So, I remember thinking,
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I want her to move in a way
that she's inviting her enemy
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to come towards her like the way
a bullfighter invites the bull to come.
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The way that bullfighters move
is quite graceful.
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It's a dance that he does,
you know, with the bull.
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It's a duel.
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And I thought, "Oh, my God,
this is Gamora. This is who she is."
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Nebula.
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I don't think that I would be here today
if it wasn't for my sisters.
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We grew up with the kind of solidarity
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that one needs to have
in order to survive adversity.
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We were always together
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and we didn't like each other
at times,
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but we loved each other.
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As Gamora, I'm confronted
with a sister, Nebula,
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who is completely
the opposite of who I am.
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I'll be free of these shackles
soon enough,
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and I will kill you, I swear.
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{\an8}Nebula's extremely complicated.
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{\an8}There's a lot going on there, emotionally.
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And I'd say that's not totally
typical for a superhero.
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I'm a daughter of Thanos. Just like you.
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Gamora and Nebula are both dealing with,
you know, being brought up
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{\an8}by an incredibly abusive
supervillain, Thanos,
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who basically took these children
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and tried to turn them into warriors
as extensions of his own ego
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and was incredibly cruel
throughout the process.
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{\an8}As a woman writing
a character like Gamora,
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I was channeling
a lot of the sibling rivalry
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that I have with my own sibling.
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And so one of the things
that I really wanted to explore was
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the idea that Nebula and Gamora
were purposely pitted against each other
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by this father figure.
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Well done, daughter.
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Because he knows how powerful they are
and that if they were ever to team up,
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they could bring him down.
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You alienated
my favorite daughter, Gamora.
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He pitted the siblings against each other.
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Gamora always won because she was better
at fighting, she was the golden child.
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Nebula, I think,
was just so resentful towards that
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that she took it personally.
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Like a personal attack, almost.
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I have never had any type of experience
where I've had to share the attention
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with a sibling or felt overlooked.
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And so, I kind of had
to really do my research
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and look at sibling relationships
'cause they're so complex.
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It was a dream come true to get
to see a fight between two sisters
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because in reality,
when I was like seven or eight years old,
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fighting with my sisters, in my mind,
that's exactly what it looked like.
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Or that's what I wanted
to be doing to them, you know?
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But these sisters love each other a lot.
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That's why the hate is so strong.
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The rage, the anger, is just so evergreen,
especially in Nebula.
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As a child, my father would have Gamora
and me battle one another in training.
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Every time my sister prevailed...
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my father would replace a piece
of me with machinery...
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claiming he wanted me to be her equal.
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From Nebula's perspective,
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I would say that she's extremely angry
at Gamora
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and Gamora has purposefully won
all of these battles
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every single time
just to make her look worse
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in front of her father.
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There was a scene between Nebula
and Gamora where they have a big argument
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and they're sort
of shouting at each other.
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And then,
it becomes emotional all of a sudden.
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It takes a quick turn
and you get a little insight
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into how Nebula feels towards Gamora.
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I don't need you always trying to beat me!
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I'm not the one that flew across
the universe 'cause I wanted to win!
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Do not tell me what I want.
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I don't need to tell you what you want!
It's obvious!
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You were the one who wanted to win.
And I just wanted a sister!
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And she's suddenly
really vulnerable
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and I think Gamora looks at her like,
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"Oh, I didn't understand
that about you before,
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"but I'm seeing a different side of you."
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"You're not just angry,
you're really hurt and fragile."
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And that was a breakthrough for them
as sisters.
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You were all I had.
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But you were the one who needed to win.
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Thanos pulled my eye from my head...
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and my brain from my skull...
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and my arm from my body...
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because of you.
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That moment when Nebula
looks at Gamora
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and tells her that she didn't want to win,
she just wanted a sister.
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I think that hits home with Gamora.
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And at the end of Guardians 2,
when Gamora hugs Nebula,
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and...
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Nebula is just sitting there being hugged,
not knowing what...
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So weird.
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She's just sitting there being hugged
and then Nebula just takes her hand
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like this and she just hugs her back.
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Just hugs her sister back for a moment,
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and that moment to me is so important.
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It's just so important, like, to me.
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That moment which is only
in a wide frame that we see it
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is as momentous
as anything I've ever shot.
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Because that is a person
starting to accept love.
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You will always be my sister.
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Those are amazing scenes.
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Those are amazing moments
to experience with someone like Karen.
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To build that trust with an actress
on set was amazing because
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up until then in my career,
I have very few moments
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with female actresses
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because I tended to be
the only female actress in a whole cast.
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I didn't ask for your help.
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And yet, you always need it.
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So having someone like Karen play Nebula,
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I didn't care if we didn't get
along on camera.
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I got to be with a sister off camera
and that was wonderful.
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People think that we hate each other.
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- We don't. We're so close, look.
- At all.
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We're super close.
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We look like twins.
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Whee!
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We've really bonded, I think,
just over playing these sisters
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and spending so much time together.
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Zoe has been a mentor for me.
She's done more of those big movies.
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I was completely new to it
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and she took me in under her wing
like her little sister.
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I wasn't like a really sporty kid at all.
I was more like a theater nerd.
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And so when I signed on,
I was not good at fighting.
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It involves a lot of stunts
to play Nebula, so many fight scenes.
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I had to train for two months
to lead up to this fight sequence
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between Nebula and Gamora,
which was really amazing.
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I felt like I was
in action hero boot camp or something.
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And Zoe really helped me
with my stunt performance.
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I'm really tall and so I, like, hunch,
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and she stopped me
from doing that for a start.
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And then, she taught me how to run.
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So I would also do this weird run
with my fists clenched,
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thinking that looked cool,
and she's like, "Open them up."
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And she taught me how
to throw a mean punch.
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And then, I suddenly
wasn't terrible at fighting anymore.
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I was, like, pretty good.
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We become sisters.
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I feel like we've just had
so many emotional experiences
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during these scenes that we can't help
but feel bonded to each other.
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We can stop him.
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She definitely inspires me
to fight for what I believe in more
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as a person and as a performer.
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She knows what she wants.
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She has her own mind
and she really speaks it.
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It's very empowering to watch
and I definitely feel like I've learned
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how to conduct myself.
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Go!
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He's too powerful. I can't!
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I believe in you.
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Sleep!
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I do believe that
Gamora and Nebula feel kindred
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to Mantis very, very early on.
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The difference between Mantis is
I don't think that Mantis has experienced
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the level of violence
that Gamora and Nebula did.
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Ego found me
in my larva state.
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Orphaned on my home world.
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He raised me by hand,
and kept me as his own.
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{\an8}The Guardians of the Galaxy movies
are very touching
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because it talks about the family
that you choose.
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He's our friend.
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All any of you do is yell at each other.
You are not friends.
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You're right. We're family.
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We leave no one behind.
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I love how resilient
the female characters are.
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I love Karen.
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She's so different
from her character in real life.
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I would like Nebula to go
to Chuck E. Cheese and take down Thanos.
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And Zoe, she's incredible.
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I remember going to a Halloween party
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{\an8}after Guardians of the Galaxy,
the first one, came out,
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{\an8}and I wanted to dress up like Gamora.
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So, I bought some
green makeup and a red wig.
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I don't know, it didn't look great,
but I wanted to be Gamora.
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And then I booked the role of Mantis,
so it's kind of funny.
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Like Mantis, I've always felt different
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and it's very freeing
to play this kind of character
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because I get to be strange, to be weird,
and to go back to being a kid, basically.
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My dad was a diplomat
so I traveled a lot when I was a child.
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So, that's why I think I got attracted
to escapism and traveling
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and never staying in the same place.
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That's what I love in movies.
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To be, like, taken away and be transported
in this crazy, imaginary world.
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Can I pet your puppy? It is adorable.
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Yes, please.
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That is called a practical joke.
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I liked it very much.
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What I love about
the character of Mantis
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is she's an empath.
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She has a superpower that
when she touches someone,
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she can change
their feelings, their emotions.
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Who are you people?
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You are scared.
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I'm very emotional, too,
so that, I feel that.
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I feel the empathy for sure.
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That's what you need to connect
with other human beings
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and, you know, to be a better person
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and caring about others is
something that is very important.
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Some people lack empathy for sure.
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Some people should be
a little bit more like Mantis, I think.
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Sleep.
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B-mark.
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Quick and efficient.
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Yeah. There you go. Cool.
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For some of us
that have been doing this for 30 years,
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{\an8}I was always the only girl.
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{\an8}Always.
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{\an8}And I was always the only head
of department for the longest of time.
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And I know that if I look at some
of the amazing men
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that have carried me through
and taught me,
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a lot of them are struggling with the idea
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of having more women on set.
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But I know that the importance
of that is that we see things
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that other people don't.
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When you do an action movie,
it's not just you.
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It's a team effort.
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And, action!
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It's your makeup artist.
It's your stunt coordinator.
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It's your costume designer.
It's your choreographer.
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It's your director. And then, it's you.
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So, there's a lot of trust
that happens with one character.
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We are passing her around.
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{\an8}I'm a makeup artist for Gamora
on Guardians of the Galaxy.
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I was department-heading
a movie called Death at a Funeral
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and Zoe was the star in the movie
and we hit it off.
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We both spoke Spanish and just connected
and became really good friends.
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Gamora was not a person,
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a human, that you just paint green
and let's go to shoot it.
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Green paint over a face with,
you know, regular eyebrows,
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it just never looks good.
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It was gonna look like Halloween makeup
versus something bigger.
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I said, "I think that we should
do special effects."
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So, we did the whole mold
of Zoe's face and chest.
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The special effects makeup department
started working on prosthetic pieces.
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We covered the eyebrows
with prosthetic makeup.
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It was challenging
because we were trying
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to find the right green
that wouldn't put people off,
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but was also vibrant and kind of youthful.
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That way, she doesn't look like a reptile.
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She doesn't look so alien-looking
that you can't really find
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any kind of connection with her.
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It was a fun, but very arduous, you know,
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process that we remember
every step of the way.
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Tails mark.
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We're pushing more than ever
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in the last decade that
I've been at Marvel to really find,
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{\an8}you know,
female crew members behind the scene,
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{\an8}not just in front,
but really behind the scenes.
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I come from the indie film world
in New York as a production designer.
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There's a ceiling when it comes to being
a woman trying to get these jobs.
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Very few women get a chance to work
in this giant franchise arena.
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Especially in department head positions
and especially in production design.
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{\an8}And my agent called me and said,
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{\an8}"James Gunn would like to meet with you
for Guardians of the Galaxy 3."
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And we had a great meeting.
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Then my agent called later and said,
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James would like
to have me come on board,
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and I literally fell off my chair.
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And my world changed. My career changed.
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Everything really changed
with that phone call.
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And by James deciding to take
a leap on somebody
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who didn't have that usual experience
is really what kind of
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changed the landscape for my career,
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but I think, also,
very much for art departments
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and for these other departments
looking to be more inclusive.
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My first day on set was crazy.
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{\an8}I saw Zoe in full wardrobe and costume
and I was just in awe
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of how cool she looked,
and her body language,
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and how she completely owned the set.
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I was like, "Wow! She's incredible."
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It's like super intimidating
for eight-year-old me,
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but she was so welcoming.
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And she was so warm and so sweet.
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She's just such a motivating person
to be around.
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She's very strong, and she's very smart,
389
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and I'm like that, too.
390
00:24:56,329 --> 00:24:59,832
I grew up in a house that always loved
everything comic books,
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everything Marvel, everything superheroes.
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I think it's cool to see yourself
in your favorite characters.
393
00:25:05,171 --> 00:25:10,301
I love Gamora and she's inspiring
because she never gives up.
394
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I think that's an important message
because if you are a young girl at home,
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it kind of gives you hope that you can
see the light at the end of the tunnel
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and that you can become stronger.
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As actors, we have the power
to really inspire people.
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We do. We have that power.
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Every day, I see a woman come up to me
and say that my character inspires them.
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My character keeps them going.
401
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They were my character for Halloween.
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They dressed their daughter
as my character.
403
00:25:53,511 --> 00:25:55,471
I never take any of that for granted.
404
00:25:55,471 --> 00:25:58,683
That kind of visibility
gives them purpose.
405
00:25:59,767 --> 00:26:02,979
It makes them feel seen and heard
and celebrated.
406
00:26:06,316 --> 00:26:11,404
My name is Priscilla Frederick-Loomis,
and my favorite superhero
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{\an8}in the MCU Universe is Gamora.
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Gamora, to me,
is just the ultimate badass.
409
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I automatically connected
with her fierceness
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and just her overall confidence
and her struggles.
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She doesn't ever back down to a challenge
412
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and I hope that that's something I can be.
413
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I became a professional athlete in 2014
414
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{\an8}and I represented the country
of Antigua and Barbuda.
415
00:26:44,062 --> 00:26:46,105
{\an8}And I went to the Olympics,
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{\an8}but didn't get to win
the Olympic gold medal.
417
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And then I was able
to see myself in Gamora.
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I saw her struggle and so I realized
that I can be a superhero
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even though I've had a really rough past.
420
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Growing up, it was just
my mom, my sister and I.
421
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And so, seeing that Gamora
was on this journey
422
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kind of on her own
and kind of ripped away from her family
423
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kind of made sense, you know?
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I have a very kind of distant relationship
with my father
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00:27:21,933 --> 00:27:23,893
and I saw that I could overcome that.
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00:27:24,519 --> 00:27:27,939
And so, I started
my own organization called
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the Priscilla E. Frederick Foundation.
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Our main goal is to assist
single-parent households.
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00:27:34,946 --> 00:27:40,785
Connecting them to financial resources,
housing, whatever they need.
430
00:27:40,785 --> 00:27:46,332
I wanted to make sure that I did something
that affected the world in a positive way.
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Hopefully, I can be that person
that helps the Gamoras of the world
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build that bridge
and get them where they want to be.
433
00:28:07,270 --> 00:28:10,606
I love uniquely
superpowered characters.
434
00:28:10,606 --> 00:28:12,984
I think, you know,
it's important to tell stories
435
00:28:12,984 --> 00:28:15,027
about all sorts
of different types of people.
436
00:28:15,486 --> 00:28:16,612
I love Nebula
437
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{\an8}because she really was
a really bad, bad character
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00:28:19,949 --> 00:28:23,828
{\an8}in the first movie,
and we get to see her slowly come around.
439
00:28:24,203 --> 00:28:28,166
She has a change of heart and she becomes
a Guardian of the Galaxy down the road.
440
00:28:28,875 --> 00:28:31,335
And I think she's a superhero
in many people's lives.
441
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My name's Angel Giuffria.
442
00:28:36,966 --> 00:28:39,927
{\an8}I was born missing the lower half
of my left arm.
443
00:28:39,927 --> 00:28:42,096
{\an8}It's called a congenital limb difference.
444
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,641
Seeing Nebula onscreen
in Guardians of the Galaxy
445
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being someone who has a prosthesis.
446
00:28:48,186 --> 00:28:51,439
At one point,
she chops off her hand to do something.
447
00:28:53,733 --> 00:28:57,320
And I was like, "That's me!"
Like, I take my hand off all the time.
448
00:28:58,196 --> 00:29:01,532
So, it's been really exciting
to see such a strong
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and powerful and badass character
that, you know,
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really pushes and fights
for what she believes in,
451
00:29:08,164 --> 00:29:10,208
because that's something
I've done forever.
452
00:29:10,917 --> 00:29:13,252
Growing up as a kid
with a limb difference,
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00:29:13,252 --> 00:29:16,422
I think, was difficult
because I felt like I had
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00:29:16,422 --> 00:29:19,425
to kind of constantly fight to fit in.
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00:29:19,425 --> 00:29:21,427
I kind of had to develop a thick skin.
456
00:29:21,427 --> 00:29:23,596
I had to develop
a pretty good sense of humor,
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00:29:23,596 --> 00:29:28,476
just to show people that, you know,
having any type of physical difference,
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you're still the same as everybody.
459
00:29:30,061 --> 00:29:34,023
So, I think being different
my whole life has
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00:29:34,023 --> 00:29:36,025
led me on this path of being able to say,
461
00:29:36,025 --> 00:29:38,945
like, let me show you
why different is so cool.
462
00:29:41,447 --> 00:29:45,993
Nebula definitely has a lot of anger
and I guess I do resonate with that a bit
463
00:29:45,993 --> 00:29:50,456
because it was so frustrating to
have to convince people that I was okay.
464
00:29:50,456 --> 00:29:53,251
You know, that being different wasn't bad.
465
00:29:53,251 --> 00:29:56,170
I didn't understand why
the default was that I was wrong,
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00:29:56,170 --> 00:29:59,257
that my body wasn't right,
you know, for existing how I was.
467
00:30:00,383 --> 00:30:04,887
Seeing Nebula be so confident
in her robot body and going, you know,
468
00:30:04,887 --> 00:30:07,306
"I could kind of make
my arm look like her arm."
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00:30:07,306 --> 00:30:10,142
So, seeing her onscreen,
I was like, "I wanna look like that."
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00:30:12,854 --> 00:30:16,357
I think that's what's important
for young amputees,
471
00:30:17,358 --> 00:30:20,653
young people with limb differences,
everyone, really,
472
00:30:20,653 --> 00:30:23,990
to see that we exist in
this dynamic fashion,
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00:30:23,990 --> 00:30:25,992
that I feel like has been
ignored in media.
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00:30:26,993 --> 00:30:29,996
The frustrating part is
that's how people know things, right?
475
00:30:29,996 --> 00:30:32,540
If you don't know someone
who wears a bionic arm
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00:30:32,540 --> 00:30:34,876
or who is an amputee, why would you know?
477
00:30:36,252 --> 00:30:40,631
So, seeing Nebula,
seeing these awesome characters,
478
00:30:40,631 --> 00:30:43,676
especially in superhero movies,
is so exciting.
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Like we get a superhero.
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I get to be Nebula.
481
00:30:51,017 --> 00:30:53,227
How do you like
the Guardians of the Galaxy?
482
00:31:01,152 --> 00:31:03,112
Hail Hail
483
00:31:03,946 --> 00:31:06,365
What's the matter with your head
484
00:31:06,365 --> 00:31:10,828
I think Marvel films
are so successful because they lift us
485
00:31:10,828 --> 00:31:14,540
{\an8}out of our everyday lives
and put us in a fantastical world
486
00:31:14,540 --> 00:31:17,084
{\an8}where everything's
extraordinary and amazing.
487
00:31:17,084 --> 00:31:20,338
But underneath all of that
is just really good messages
488
00:31:20,338 --> 00:31:22,632
that we can all connect to
in our real lives.
489
00:31:22,965 --> 00:31:25,009
I dig it.
I like being in space.
490
00:31:25,009 --> 00:31:30,973
I get to play less girlfriends
and more female parts.
491
00:31:30,973 --> 00:31:32,433
More women.
492
00:31:33,100 --> 00:31:35,269
Come and get your love
493
00:31:35,269 --> 00:31:36,979
What? Whoa!
494
00:31:36,979 --> 00:31:39,065
I need a picture right now!
495
00:31:39,649 --> 00:31:43,778
{\an8}I think that we do have the responsibility
as storytellers
496
00:31:43,778 --> 00:31:47,365
{\an8}to represent
what the world looks like today.
497
00:31:47,865 --> 00:31:50,493
They're not just, like,
badass and violent, you know.
498
00:31:50,493 --> 00:31:53,412
They're like peculiar and weird
and broken at the same time,
499
00:31:53,412 --> 00:31:56,832
so it feels like we're getting accurate
representation of women in the film.
500
00:31:56,832 --> 00:32:01,212
You walk out into the world
and there's all types of women, and so,
501
00:32:01,212 --> 00:32:07,551
I think it's vital to reflect society,
diversity, you know, all genders.
502
00:32:07,551 --> 00:32:11,138
We just need to reflect
the real society in our movies.
503
00:32:13,849 --> 00:32:16,769
The Guardians of the Galaxy
movies are very touching.
504
00:32:17,103 --> 00:32:18,646
{\an8}And I find it really beautiful
505
00:32:18,646 --> 00:32:21,774
{\an8}because you see yourself
represented on screen.
506
00:32:22,900 --> 00:32:25,111
{\an8}I come out of these movies
feeling more assured,
507
00:32:25,111 --> 00:32:27,989
{\an8}feeling stronger, feeling more optimistic,
feeling more hopeful,
508
00:32:27,989 --> 00:32:31,534
feeling like, yes,
we do have control of our destiny.
509
00:32:32,994 --> 00:32:34,120
I have a daughter now.
510
00:32:34,704 --> 00:32:37,623
{\an8}She's one year old so
I haven't shown her any Marvel movies yet.
511
00:32:37,623 --> 00:32:39,750
{\an8}But I like the idea that one day,
we'll watch them
512
00:32:39,750 --> 00:32:43,170
and she can see herself
in these characters now.
513
00:32:43,713 --> 00:32:48,968
She can see Gamora and Nebula and Mantis.
514
00:32:48,968 --> 00:32:50,594
Something's happening.
515
00:32:50,594 --> 00:32:52,513
I like the idea that my daughter can say,
516
00:32:52,513 --> 00:32:55,766
"I don't need to be rescued by a boy,
I can rescue the boy myself."
517
00:32:55,766 --> 00:32:59,520
Peter! Take my hand!
518
00:33:08,112 --> 00:33:10,740
Zoe Saldana!
519
00:33:11,449 --> 00:33:13,034
You go, girl!
520
00:33:17,830 --> 00:33:21,208
{\an8}My hope is to be inspired
every time I go to the movies.
521
00:33:21,709 --> 00:33:25,254
And I'm excited to see
more stories of heroines.
522
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:27,256
Of female heroes.
523
00:33:28,924 --> 00:33:32,511
Because I enjoy this genre,
I enjoy action movies,
524
00:33:32,511 --> 00:33:36,182
I enjoy watching films
with younger audiences.
525
00:33:36,182 --> 00:33:39,226
It makes you feel very excited
and proud of what you're doing.
526
00:33:39,643 --> 00:33:42,646
So let's keep going in this direction.
More, please.