Cobie Smulders On ‘The Avengers’
Cobie Smulders provided some details about her time working on ‘The Avengers’ on the latest ‘How I Met Your Mother’ podcast.
The actress plays Maria Hill in the epic comic-book ensemble and is signed on for seven more Marvel movies in addition to “The Avengers.”
“This doesn’t mean I’m doing seven films,” the actress clarified. “(It) just means if they like me, then they’ll have me on more.”
“The Avengers” is by far the largest film that Smulders has been a part of to date and the sheer scale of the set took the actress by storm when she first arrived to shoot in New Mexico.
“I had no idea what it was gonna be like at all. I was so happy to see a friendly face in (director) Joss Whedon because I know him socially. - But [the film] was huge; the magnitude of it. I mean, just the amount of people it takes to make a film like this and move out to Albuquerque, New Mexico; People were working on the movie almost seven months before I arrived there.”
As to her working relationship with Whedon, Smulders describes it as:
“A dream.”
Saying:
“It was very handy to work with him because I was very intimated. There were a lot of extremely talented, very famous, people working on this film. And I felt very green. And he was so kind to me and I really feel he brought out the best in me performance wise. I really went in there going like, ‘I will do whatever you want me to do Sir.’”
Though she does not participate in the most intense action sequences in the film, Smulders did do some training in preparation for her role.
“I hired this amazing black-ops trainer to teach me how to hold a gun, take me to a shooting range, how to hit, how to hold myself, how to walk and basically how to look. I don’t do a ton of fighting in the movie, which is why I wasn’t offered a trainer, but I wanted to look like I had the ability to. And I really just got down and dirty with the character, but then I finally went on set; when you’re about to roll, all the “blubbity blue” you’ve been working on kind of messes with. And you become a little bit detached.”
“The Avengers” opens in AMC theatres on May 4th, 2012.
Source: Comic Book Movies
Source: AMC Theatres
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