<b>Time Network News</b> The thriller new work "Room Escape" by Sony Columbia Pictures in the United States is as its name suggests, telling the story of 6 strangers who have never known each other and participated in a "chamber of secrets" form of death game in order to pay a high prize. After experiencing one "Song of Ice and Fire", "Upside Down Pool Table", "Iron House Stew Live Man", "Poison Gas Suffocation Play" and other room challenges that sound imaginative and are actually thief chickens, not everyone will reach the end of the game safely.
After the film was released in the United States on January 4, it was not easy to exchange for more than $37 million in box office results worldwide. Today, "Escape from the Chamber" landed in Chinese mainland major theaters, during the film's promotion, the time network reporter interviewed deborah Anwar, the heroine who plays the veteran female soldier Amanda, and talked about her experience in participating in one of the few overseas thrillers released in China, how it felt to shoot on the set of the strangely structured "Chamber of Secrets" in the film, and various ideas for her future career.
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Deborah, who is 178 tall, in addition to her tall figure will be noticed by fans, a red hair is also very eye-catching. Before starring in "Escape room", her most famous role was the role of "Jessica" in the American drama "True Love Is Like Blood". In recent years, Deborah has starred in the role of "Karen Page" in Netflix's Marvel Dramas "League of Defenders", "The Punisher" and "Daredevil", so that more film and television audiences will remember this blue-eyed New York girl.
In the interview, Deborah also specifically mentioned that she likes the Chinese version of the poster of this film very much. She previously posted an ins and said, "My boyfriend saw this poster of "Escape room", but I don't know which country it is", hoping that fans will provide clues. When she learned that she was the absolute protagonist of the Chinese version of the poster, she excitedly repeatedly asked the staff if she could get a physical version of the poster and happily look like a child.
Deborah's favorite Chinese poster
<b>Mtime: "Escape from the Secret Room" is going to be released in China this Friday, where do you think the film will attract Chinese audiences the most? </b>
Deborah: It's a story about survival, <b>using your wisdom to save your own life</b>, and I think audiences around the world can empathize with this kind of story, and it can definitely transcend language and cultural barriers.
<b>Mtime: Your role as "Amanda" in the film is a wonderful character, can you introduce the audience to this former female Special Forces soldier with a bit of a PTSD</b> <b>(post-traumatic stress disorder)</b> <b>nature? </b>
Deborah: I think what touched me the most was that I <b>really liked that the film showed both sides of the character's personality</b>. Having experienced traumatic events, she has a vulnerable side and has been carrying these memories on her back. But that doesn't mean she's not tough, she's still strong, and it's not a bad thing for us to see vulnerability. We see her haunted by some terrible things, but she's still a hero.
"Room Escape" Chinese word trailer
<b>Mtime: This is one of the few thrillers that has been approved for release in China, what excites you the most when you play the role of "Amanda"? </b>
Deborah: For me, the most exciting part of shooting this film was the various stunts in the "Upside Down Billiard Room" scene. The stunt team in this film is very good, they taught me how to perform all kinds of stunts safely, so <b>I can play all the moves myself</b>. In one of the scenes I was suspended 30 feet in the air, to jump over a distance of seven or eight feet wide, from the bar to the pool table. I was hanging Weah, and if I hadn't jumped over, they could have pulled me, but I still had to play it myself, so I had to go on my own.
We did that scene once, because it was very energy-intensive, we only shot it once, and they definitely used that shot, because we only had that one shot. I did feel nervous, but I took a deep breath and jumped out.
<b>Mtime: How many cases like this are there? Or do you often need to take a few more shots to capture the feeling? </b>
Deborah: Usually you have to shoot many times, and the <b>important thing is not whether it feels right or wrong, it's just the taste</b>. Sometimes there are a lot of acting in a scene, and you try all kinds of performances, and then they decide which one they want in post-editing. As for action scenes, sometimes they do need to be reshooted repeatedly to get better and better. But sometimes, as long as you're ok, because action scenes can be dangerous and tiring. The more tired you are, the easier it is to have accidents, so some scenes you have to shoot a few more times, and some scenes you shoot well.
<b>Mtime: What training did you do for the film? Because there are still a lot of action scenes in this film. </b>
Deborah: Yeah, I did a lot of fitness workouts before the shooting started. Because although the role of "Amanda" has been retired for ten years, her physical background should still be there, so <b>I studied what standards it takes to become an Army infantryman</b>, and I try to meet these standards. And I took out my P90X fitness DVD and <b>did all kinds of military fitness training</b>.
Amanda's "character poster" by Deborah
Mtime: Abs tearer!
Deborah: That's right, abs rippers, oh my god, I do this because I need these abs to climb around in the chamber, and I'm glad I did these exercises.
<b>Mtime: What was it like to shoot on set, was the "upside down pool table" a real scene, or a green screen? </b>
Deborah: The chamber itself was built on real foot, and they built a really cool upside-down billiard room, about 20 feet (6 meters) high, but the chamber was built on a 10-foot (3-meter) high platform. We're going to climb in through the stairs, and then they'll pull out the planks of these "ceilings"—it's actually the floor, and there's a green screen underneath to make an abyss in the film, but it's still 30 feet (9 meters) high.
<b>Mtime: So these sets are real. </b>
Deborah: It's all true, absolutely true, that gravity effect, my hair is going to fall in the right direction, it's very difficult to fake, so it's all real shooting.
<b>Mtime: What about the other rooms? Like that ice room and that fire room, how were they filmed? </b>
Deborah: Again, <b>everything is a real set</b>. Of course, for safety reasons, it is impossible to really do it so cold or so hot, otherwise we will be miserable. But we used our own perceptual memory to make sure we knew how our bodies reacted in cold environments. That outdoor room was the biggest set, with huge trees in it, and they did add some green screen effects, like that digital wall, and Nick Dani, the actor who played Danny, who really soaked in the water for a long time hahaha.
Deborah plays Karen Page in Netflix's Marvel Series (stills from Daredevil)
<b>Mtime: What's it like to work with your 5 Chamber of Secrets friends? This time, the cast is very diverse. </b>
Deborah: We were far abroad, shooting in South Africa, so we played together very quickly. <b>Making movies is really hard, and you have to rely on the people around you</b>, and I think the six of us, because we are together all day long, so we are very close to each other, and every time we have a problem, when we encounter a logical problem that doesn't make sense, we will help each other and give advice.
Not only are we very diverse, but the characters in this film are also diverse, we have a financial person, a truck driver, a college student, a waiter with plastic bags in a supermarket, an otaku, and I am a veteran, everyone is different.
Deborah said that all the "chambers" in the film are real scenes
<b>Mtime: If you got into this escape room game in reality, how many levels do you think you'll survive? </b>
Deborah: I don't know about this chamber of secrets in the film, <b>I like to solve puzzles</b>, I'm actually closer to the character of Zoe (Taylor Russell), I like this kind of thing. Solving puzzles is my interest, but I don't know, <b>I think my chances of success should be quite high</b>. Where will I level it? I don't drink alcohol or anything like that, and in that "gas chamber" room, the tolerance to gas should be low and you might faint.
<b>Mtime: Have you ever played a room escape game in reality? Where do you think the magic weapon is to win?</b>
Deborah: I didn't play Escape Room, but I would play Dungeons & Dragons. It's a very homely game, but I think the game experience between the two is still very similar, emphasizing cooperation and solving problems together. I think that's exactly the message that the film wants <b>to send, and the only way to survive is to work together, to work together</b>, and once you start to do the right thing, it's over, and we want everyone to do their part.
"Jessica Jones" Christen Ritter with Deborah
<b>Mtime: You mentioned earlier that "it's very difficult to make movies", so which one do you prefer to make TV series and make movies?</b>
Deborah: I'm definitely making more TV series, but the TV series I've made have a very tight schedule. When we filmed "True Love Like Blood", we shot from morning to night, and there was no rest time at all. If you want to make a good scene, you will definitely give it your all, and everyone will work overtime almost every day. So I don't know, I think it's pretty much the same for making movies.
The only difference is that <b>when you make a movie, before you officially start shooting, you know the whole story, but when you shoot a TV series,</b> a lot of times I don't know what will happen next, you <b>pay more attention to your role</b>, I understand this role, I know who I am when I play her, I will follow the role.
<b>Mtime: From an acting career perspective, what do you think you'll be like in five years? </b>
Deborah: Honestly, <b>I came from theater background, and my favorite thing is to perform on stage, but in the</b> last five to ten years, I've snubbed theater work. I don't regret acting in a TV series, I'm happy to make a TV series, but it has gotten me a little off track, and now, after all these years, I finally have free time, I am looking forward to getting back on the stage of drama and making it an important part of my career, and hopefully I will continue to work in theater in five years.