Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
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Summary
Scott Pilgrim Takes Offis best enjoyed without spoilers , but those who have watch the anime serial publication know that it is a unique revisitation and expansion of Edgar Wright ’s 2010 film and Bryan Lee O’Malley ’s beloved lifelike novel . Over a X afterwards , the anime series still has much of what made the moving picture a cult hit ; Wright dish as a producer onScott Pilgrim Takes Off , and all principal cast phallus from the cinema return to give unexampled takes on their case . Scott Pilgrim Takes Offwas written by BenDavid Grabinski , known in part forAre You Afraid of the Dark ? , and Bryan Lee O’Malley .
One of the most interesting things about the anime series is howScott Pilgrim Takes Offredefines its villains , but just as significant is the room it explores the lives of the other masses in Scott Pilgrim ’s life . Ramona Flowers and Knives Chau enjoy their own journeys of ego - discovery inScott Pilgrim Takes Off , with each on a path to self - actualization that is brand newfangled compared to the events of the graphical novels and film . Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Ellen Wong return as Ramona Flowers and Knives Chau and bring lifespan experience to their role in what is the largest raid either actor has made into voiceover .
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projection screen Rantinterviewed Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Ellen Wong about returning to Ramona Flowers and Knives Chau , the notoriousScott Pilgrimemail chain , and more .
Mary Elizabeth Winstead & Ellen Wong On Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
Screen claptrap : It was so exciting as a fan to see the fact that everybody came back for this show . Did you get the chance to play together and be in the way together in the same way you [ did for ] the picture show at all ?
Ellen Wong : No . We were all in dissimilar locations at the time of recording , and so that was a affair ; we did n’t get to be together . We get to be together in spirit , through our experience of doing it , in our mass e-mail that we have together , and in the festivity of the anime coming out , but it was an interesting experience .
For me , at least , it was my first time really doing voiceover , so that was , in and of itself , an interesting experience . You ’re on your own , you do n’t get to get word the lines being scan back to you , and you ’re just doing your graphic symbol ’s lines . But then you get to really live in your type , in a way , where you ’re just that mortal speak the entire time . You almost can strike new thing about her that you just did n’t know were there . That ’s how I felt . I do n’t know if you felt that style , Mary .
Mary Elizabeth Winstead : utterly , yeah . Of course , we would have get laid to have all been in the same room and to get to interact together and all that again , but it still experience like we were ; we were all coming together with this united goal of make something together . You could kind of experience the energy of that , and that was incredibly exciting .
I had perhaps one or two day where I got to do scenes where the other actor had already immortalize their parts , so I got to get a line them , at least , which was so fun . Even just to hear a small snip of you , Ellen , or Kieran , or Michael brought a rush to me , just reminding me how special it is that we ’re all doing this together . It ’s like we were n’t together , but we were , in its own way .
Ellen Wong : I suppose it feels like we were together when you watch out it .
Mary Elizabeth , Ramona is , surprisingly , kind of the star of the show here , which is so cool to find out . I screw you ’ve live with this character reference for so long , but was there anything that you felt you maybe discovered or grow to expand on in this notification of the story ?
Mary Elizabeth Winstead : by all odds . It was really meaningful for me to get to have Ramona be more of the focus and to get to explore her , emotionally , a spot more . I opine we all really identified with our characters at the clip when we made the movie , and there ’s something really personal about Ramona for me , so to get to face back at her as a part and also seem back at myself at that metre , and opine about all the things that I would care to get to say to that character , or say about that quality , or to myself … it was all very meta .
The show feels [ meta ] , obviously , but it felt that elbow room reach it as well . We were all sort of looking back at our former ego with this new lens and bringing all of that history to these characters , and who they were then , and where they ’re going . That was a very psychotherapeutic and emotional thing to get to do that I did n’t really expect . I did n’t really realize it was buy the farm to feel that way until I was in reality recording it .
Ellen , we get Scott saying , “ plain a 23 - year - old date a high schooler is frowned on in society , ” this time around , which feels like onward motion , kind of . How did you feel about the elbow room Scott ’s kinship with Knives was framed and done with this show ?
Ellen Wong : I fuck that Knives gets to go off on her own and discover herself outside of needing to be with Scott . I think that the feature film kind of alludes to that a little snatch with the way that it end , but you just do n’t get to see what happens after . In the Zanzibar copal , you get to see that with Knives . She gets to grieve in her very striking knife - esque way , but she then acquire to go and heal those wound inside of herself and she can ascertain the things that bring her pleasure — the real genuine loves in her aliveness — and it does n’t have to be about Scott ; it does n’t have to be about a guy . It ’s about , “ What does she want to do ? ” and , “ What does she wish about ? ” and I think that ’s a huge emergence curvature for tongue . I love that we get to see her be her own individual .
Mary , how do you feel about the reveal of what happened to the family relationship between Scott and Ramona ?
Mary Elizabeth Winstead : I thought it was really beautiful . It just mat up very true and authentic to life story in a elbow room that I suppose a circle of mass could resonate with ; I for certain resonated with it . [ In ] looking at these character with more soundness and with more empathy , we can — all being a petty scrap older now — reckon back at these characters , and ourselves in our ‘ twenty , and go , “ Oh , you just did n’t know what was coming . You just did n’t know yet , ” and feel empathy for them in that journey .
I think old Ramona is able to look back at younger Ramona with those eyes , and I love where it last from there ; that Ramona gets to realize that it ’s about accepting and loving herself . For her to get to go on that journeying was very special for me . Scott got to have his own journeying with that in the movie , and now Ramona gets to have her own version of that kind of ego - love and self - banker’s acceptance , which I suppose she desperately need as well . It feel like the right-hand thing . It felt really special to get to go on that journeying with her .
Ellen , did you have a favorite Knives moment from the series ?
Ellen Wong : I ’m not a player , and that was a really interesting part of being capable to play knife this metre . In the voiceover sessions , Bryan and BenDavid were like , “ Do you want us to act you the heartbeat and you [ can ] go with it ? ” I was like , “ Um … ” We had to stress different thing , because they were like , “ Do it in two - count , ” [ and ] I was like , “ What are you talking about ? I ’m just go to say the lyrics , and then you put them in where they have to go . ”
It lead off off that room because I was n’t convinced about it , but then , as we start to trifle the songs and I got into it , I started to sing and do all these thing that were outside of my comfort zona , but also [ were ] about Knives finding herself and discover her voice . It was interesting to go on that journey with her as well , and then it was just really fun . It just flowed .
That was the part that I was the most nervous about ; I was like , “ I know Knives can do it , but how can I do it ? ” and “ Can I do it ? ” I just kind of let it go , and I was like , “ knife does n’t like . She ’s just get it flow , and she ’s just letting herself ‘ be ’ now , ” and so I did [ too ] . It was really special , and the medicine is incredible in the gum anime , and it was really cool to be part of that .
It was just cool for knife to be part of the band because I remember that ’s what her true love was from the first . She was in love with Scott playing euphony ; she did n’t postulate Scott . It was n’t about Scott , it was about what he was making , and how he was expressing himself , and I think she ’s on that journey too .
That fit where she starts jam with Kim is my favorite ; it ’s so unspoilt . I want to have sex about the email chain , because then it ’s been save about , it ’s been document —
Ellen Wong : It ’s been document ?
Well , not the actual emails , but it ’s been write about . Who ’s replying the fastest ? Who needs to expend less time on the email chain ? Who ’s replying the least ? What ’s the moral force ?
Mary Elizabeth Winstead : It is quite funny because , evidently , the story that ’s gone around — which is the most hilarious thing — is that Michael uprise it after 10 years . I reckon him and probably Jason Schwartzman are the two that are most likely to reply , like , months late . So , that still happens on occasion . It ’s not an e-mail chain that is constantly going .
Ellen Wong : It ’s like this . [ It ’ll be like , ] “ Yes , ” and I ’m like , “ To what ? ” and it ’s an email from two months ago . “ Oh . ”
Mary Elizabeth Winstead : It ’s just fun that it still exists . I call up that we all sort of want to keep it going in that way , where it ’s like , “ Okay , every few months , somebody call for to compose something so that we can just have this be the longest email chain ever . ” There ’s just something so funny and perfect about that .
Ellen Wong : But there ’s no denying that Edgar is the leader of that email chemical chain .
Mary Elizabeth Winstead : For sure . He ’s the lance - heading . Yeah .
The Godhead of the show have been very clear that this was n’t made with the intention of jumping right into a second season , but are there places that you would each like to see your character go in any future telling ?
Mary Elizabeth Winstead : It ’s such a difficult one because I think , as people and actors , we all just love it so much . We would be so frantic to continue to be a part of it in some way , but it is sort of like , “ What could that story be ? ” That ’s still a doubt mark , I cogitate . I think what BenDavid and Bryan did with this was just so vivid ; it ’s like a full history of all of our lives , somehow , in this show , and so I imagine to do that again is a improbable order . But I ’m certain that all of us would be down to do it again if they come up with it a second time .
Ellen Wong : For sure . And so much of this is their genius — BenDavid and Bryan , especially Bryan — that I almost want to just be like , “ You tell me what to do , and I ’ll do it . You narrate me where Knives is going and I ’ll go ” So , I agree , and I echo everything Mary is say . It ’s just been such a fire to be together again , and to be capable to bring in ourselves , now , to these character from 10 years ago . It ’s just nerveless to see them live on in anime form .
About Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
Scott Pilgrim meets the missy of his dream , Ramona Flowers , but discover he must defeat her seven malefic exes to date her . Then things get even more complicated . Based on the vivid novel by Bryan Lee O’Malley .
Scott Pilgrim Takes Offis cyclosis now on Netflix .
