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For the first film in your career I can't image Terrance Malick's The New World being the easiest start. Add in the fact that your are playing Pocahontas and must speak multiple languages through out the film and your first role could get a bit tricky.
So is the case for newcomer Q'orianka Kilcher (Pocahontas) who stands side by side with big actors such as Colin Farrell and Christian Bale.
The New World with Q'orianka Kilcher
The good people over at ComingSoon recently caught up with Q'orianka Kilcher and asked her questions about Malick's The New World and what it took to fall into the role of Pocahontas.
CS: What was it like working with Terrence Malick?
Q'orianka Kilcher: It was really wonderful because he really worked with his actors and he asked us, asked the actors their opinion on things and really gave his actors so much artistic freedom and allowed them to really immerse themselves in their characters and bring it to life in their own way, and it was really amazing.
CS: You have two leading men - Collin Farrell and Christian Bale - who you spend large amounts of time acting against. What was it like, working with Collin versus working with Christian? What was different, what was similar?
Kilcher: Working with Collin... he was really, in a sense, like a John Smith. Very free spirited, and he found beauty and was delighted in the simplest things like grasshoppers jumping or something like that. Very sweet.
With Christian Bale, he was more... he was more mature in a sense, and he was more of a fatherly figure, and it was more of a mature love that Pocahontas had with John Rolfe versus with John Smith.
They also had different acting styles, as Collin was more spirit of the moment. If we would start improvising, we never knew what was going to happen. And with Christian Bale it was more, we a little bit knew what was going to happen, it was more of a safer environment, in a sense.
The interview then goes on to ask questions about the difficulties of speaking Algonquin and what it was like to kiss Colin Farrell on screen (which some ladies out there may dig). Check out the entire interview with Q'orianka Kilcher on The New World over at ComingSoon.
The New World is an epic adventure set
amid the encounter of European and Native American cultures during the founding
of the Jamestown Settlement in 1607. Inspired by the legend of John Smith
(Farrell) and Pocahontas, acclaimed filmmaker Terrence Malick transforms
this classic story into a sweeping exploration of love, loss and discovery,
both a celebration and an elegy of the America that was…and the America
that was yet to come. Against a historically accurate Virginia backdrop,
Malick has set a dramatized tale of two strong-willed characters-a passionate
and noble young native woman and an ambitious soldier of fortune-torn between
the undeniable requirements of their civic duty and the inescapable demands
of the human heart.
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