Benedict Wong Talks Prometheus
Benedict Wong was a guest on the Peter Serafionwicz Show on the BBC earlier today and we have a rough transcript of the Prometheus relevant elements. It’s quite light in tone and is an interesting read.
But before we get into the heart of this article, we’d like to share that Wong recently confirmed through his Twitter account that his character is indeed named Ravel (and thus the IMDb entry not being a false one). Tweet source.
All right, let’s begin the transcript:
PS – …And Benny you’re going to be in the new Ridley Scott film Prometheus.BW – I don’t know if I can confirm that.PS – You can don’t be silly.BW – I just got confirmation I can confirm that.PS – So go on tell us about it, it”s the prequel to alien.BW – Yeah its before, so its in old space, obviously set in the future and before the time of alien, I can”t really tell you much.BW – I’ll tell you what why dont we do some spoilers.PS – 10 seconds of spoilers.BW – 10 seconds of spoilers.PS – Is there a space ship in it?BW – YeahPS – Is there an alien in it?BW – It’s a bit…y’know how you’ve got..so well its like an alien rom com of how the mum and dad met, and he’s got a limp, and hes a ghost.PS – Well that sounds great.BW – Exclusive.– ——————————————–PS – So, Ben…Prometheus, lets talk properly about this, cause I’m real super excited about it, Alien the film Alien is in my top 10, I wasn’t really mad on any of the other alien films.BW – No nor me.PS – Umm i think that one is just a pure classic and it seems like that’s a true prequel to that one.BW – Yeah and I think that’s what Ridley wants.BW – But its gonna be and I think people got very excited its gonna be in 3d so get to the Imax.…..BW – Well if you got very excited about the 3D usage in Avatar, it”s gonna be like the next level now, the type of cameras they’re using, I dunno what cameras they are but the technicians that use them cameras are really excited about them.PS – But didn’t you say that Ridley was watching the takes back in 3D, with glasses on, on a special monitor.BW – Occasionally when you do you a take, and what I sort of like is to ask for PPB a personal play back, so I sat down I put the glasses on and Ridley caught me, but it was fine, he just cranked it up and it looks fantastic.PS – Who else is in it B?BW – Uh Michael Fassbender is in it, Noomi Rapace, Kate Dickie, Emun Elliot – we both fly the ship- there’s a little bit of insight.PS – Is the design of the ship is it like pre-Alien with big clackety clack keyboards and computers and stuff?BW – The first day we started we were a bit new, y’know first day at school but when we first walked up the spaceship I just remembered the first steps that I took and you could hear the metal grill.PS – Wow.PS – Anyway I cant wait for this film.BW – June time.
Thanks to bruceriach for the lead and Aeus for the transcript!
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Lol, this guys pretty funny.
Fun interview.
“is the design of the ship is it like pre alien with big clackety clack keyboards and computers and stuff”
Yeah I noticed that the ship and tech in general seems slicker and more advanced then our beautiful clackety Nostromo and the wonderfully layered Mobius suits.
But there’s really nothing that can really be done about that.
They’re not going to finance a 3D blockbuster dressed up in pre late 70′s aesthetics.
Thats just going to have to be part of the suspension of disbelief.
Along with the apparently shorter SJ’s.
No deal breaker.
No suspension of disbelief necessary on my part. The Nostromo was a run down old cargo ship. The Prometheus is a highly expensive ship going out on by far the most important mission in human history, to find our creators. Consequently it’s equipped with the most advanced technology possible. So even though it’s set 30 years earlier it still makes sense.
Yeah, I was thinking something similar.
Although I might also think that as fast as tech grows even today, that even the best available tech WOULD be either equivalent to old and run down tech or at least its best tech widely implemented by then.
An ’82 Jaguar is not going to have a more advanced dash then a 2012 Chevy.
Although I suppose that its also possible that the Nostromo was a 60 year old ship.
Aha.
It’s almost akin to the thought process of time travel. Prometheus is supposedly 30 or so years before Alien. I was thinking the jerky space Jockey in Alien would be much older than 30 or so. I just hope it doesn’t go the route of Star Wars Ep 3, bam back to 70′s tech.
The space jockeys aren’t shorter. Are you one of those people who thought they looked smaller in that one picture of Noomi in the tunnel? That was a misconception, look at the other photos. The one where a SJ suit is on the floor and they examine the helmet, and the one where one is standing by the SJ chair without a suit. They are huge.
“…and the one where one is standing by the SJ chair without a suit.”
I dont think I’ve seen that one.
The head in the infirmary did also seem smaller to me than Dallas standing next to the SJ in Alien.
But its hard to tell.
We’ll see.
It’s from the trailer, there is a very brief shot of the human looking suitless SJ standing by the chair emerging from the senter of whatever that thing is. Compared to the shot of a human standing in the senter of the same place (controlling the blue navigation system) it is clear that the SJ is much larger. I think the “head” in the infirmary looks smaller than it actually is due to the angle (it’s a helmet, not a head).
‘It’s from the trailer, there is a very brief shot of the human looking suitless SJ standing by the chair…”
It doesn’t ring a bell!
I dont mean to be rude, but screenshots or it didn’t happen!
http://www.prometheusnews.net/movie/prometheus-trailer-breakdown/
Scroll down and you’ll see it, he even comments on the size issue.
there must be some reason why the nostromo has bulkier hardware. maybe travel through the outer rim systems (“deep space”) has more risk of mini asteroids or some other kind of radiation or hazard that need special shielding that would normally mess with slicker technology. the prometheus, being a specially designed special-purpose ship, would have a way to circumvent this.
Well like Anonymous said, it could just be a matter of the Nostromo being an old funky “tow truck”.
The original Prometheus being a full blown and super financed mission in a super hummer, and then possibly (likely?) being a huge failure.
Possibly leading to the reduction of the singular Weyland empire’s fortunes?
Maybe leading to being bought out and/or conglomerated with Yutani?
Then theoretically after intercepting and deciphering the warning transmission, redirecting a crew of under qualified truckdrivers on a low level industrial chore to see if there is any salvageable fortune from the previous expensive mission?
That of course being all unqualified conjecture on the spot.
Allegedly these questions will all be answered and set straight in the final act.
I’m excited.
Uh why aren’t we talking about this interview?! Didn’t anyone read what BW said?
“…its like an alien rom com of how the mum and dad met, and he’s got a limp, and hes a ghost.”
What the hell could that be about? A Ghost?
I think he was just being silly.
He seems to have a good sense of humor.
So the android gets infected with the yellow alien spray which makes him turn a bit human, he has sex with one of the female leads, she has an alien baby which is possessed by an ancient space jockey ghost…
Hmm I don’t know man, he wasn’t quite clear to me. Also he seems to be the first one from the production so far to have agreed with someone referring to Prometheus as an Alien prequel…
“PS – So go on tell us about it, it’s the prequel to alien.
BW – Yeah it’s before, so it’s in old space, obviously set in the future and before the time of Alien, I can’t really tell you much.”
He didn’t necessarily say it was or wasn’t a prequel. He just acknowledged it was before Alien. They should just call it a origin/prequel.