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- Hey what's up guys, we're hanging out in the
Young Hollywood studio with Rosa Salazar!
- You're just mean.
Talking about her trip to New York recently,
going back.
She was living in New York for a while.
- Yeah.
- Someone coughed in your face?
- I was walking around and I was like, ah New York, ah!
And then on that second ah, a woman coughed directly into
my mouth.
And I felt it.
That brought back a lot of nostalgia and the flu
so that was, that was good.
- [Mary Kate] Well you are awesome in this movie!
- [Rosa] Thank you!
- [Mary Kate] I mean this is insane!
Did you have to wear green screen goggles or something?
- Yeah!
- To look like this?
- The way I describe it now is that, there's a CGI car,
and I'm driving it.
So all of the artistic choices,
everything in her physicality, all of the nuisances,
all of the little idiosyncratic behavior, that's all me.
- Yeah.
- I wore a performance capture suit.
- Oh with all the dots all over it?
- Yeah, it was lined with infrared dots that are responding
to cameras that have been strung up all over Iron City,
making what they call a volume.
So within that volume, they get a 3D model of me existing
in that space.
I also wore a helmet and all my hair was in a do-rag,
which was super hot.
(laughs)
- That's awesome.
- And on that helmet is a boom, and on the boom
are two high definition cameras.
So they're really recording every single pull,
every stretch, every wrinkle, every expression,
micro expression that I'm giving them.
- Then on your lunch break, you're still wearing all that?
- You're still wearing it.
- Trying to eat with the cameras on your head and stuff?
- Yeah, and the dots.
You forget that they're there and then you look
in the mirror and you're like, oh!
- Oh my gosh!
- That's what you're looking at, yeah.
- But what about the scene when you first get put
into the purple body?
You're in front of your father and you do
this weird contortion.
- Yoga.
- And I'm like, can she really do that?
- Yes.
- You have to see the movie.
- No I can't do that.
We had a girl from Cirque du Soleil come in.
- Oh, you're kidding?
- And she can do all of that stuff.
- So that's cool.
- Yeah that was really cool.
I was just on the side like eating chips.
- Eating your lunch?
- Yeah.
- So how did you feel when you booked this role?
Because I know that a bunch of other girls were up
for it too.
Bella Thorne.
And Zendaya.
- So it must be cool.
- [Rosa] Who, no I'm just kidding.
- I thought that...
- She's so famous.
- That was pretty cool.
You're the one that was chosen, you know, you booked
the part.
- I really wanted to embody that character,
and you know tell that story.
And it was hard so I was just like, you know what,
I'm going back to auditioning.
Cause, I'm kind of a freak.
I love auditioning and I was like, I need to perform.
And auditioning is like my time, a slot where I can perform
like a six minute play starring me.
- You get that fix.
- Yeah I get that fix.
So I went back to auditioning, and I swear to you the moment
I forgot about Alita for a second, I look at my phone
and it's like, missed call, Robert Rodriguez.
And I call him and I'm like hey.
And he's like hey.
I truly, honestly I want you to believe me, I fought
for you.
And I'm like crossing the street to my truck and I see
a parking attendant giving me a ticket
- [Mary Kate] You're about to cry.
- And so my whole reality is like, being inceptioned
all around me.
And I'm just like, what's going on?
And I just really wanted to collaborate with you on set.
So I'm so excited that we're gonna get to do that
come September, in Austin!
- Woo!
- We'll be on the set of Alita.
And I was just like meh!
And I like ran over to the parking attendant
and I hugged her.
I was like, yes, and was like holding the ticket up
because like...
- Now you can afford it.
- Well I can afford it but it says when the time was,
and what date, and where I was.
- Oh you have to frame it!
Yes.
- I sent it to Jim and he didn't pay it.
- It's a good luck ticket.
- Yeah, I can afford it now, it's all good.
- Okay before we end the interview, what is this move
that you're showing on the red carpet to people?
I mean it's the move you do in the movie.
But can you show me?
It's like the bam!
- Yeah, so if someone tries to go at your throat.
Which that happened.
So what you want to do is, you want to grab
like this, right?
- Okay.
- And then you want to twist and pull at the same time
while threading your hand in here.
- Ow!
- You get this?
Are you seeing this?
Everyone got a good angle?
And then you have a really good leverage to smash!
- Ow!
- I'm smashing so many interviewers faces.
And they're all hot girls.
(laughing)
- You were like going at it on the carpet.
- Do you want to try smashing me?
- Okay, alright.
So you're going through my throat.
- This valentines day, smash someone.
- Okay, so wait.
- So, I'm coming at you, right?
- Okay.
- I'm coming at you.
- So you want to, let's see, how did I do this?
- Oh, oh.
- Okay so you want to come and you want to, you want
to grab and twist.
Like twist it this way.
- Twist it that way.
- And then you want to, oh, maybe I'm doing...
(laughs)
Maybe I'm doing this wrong.
(laughs)
I've never done it from the other perspective.
I've never...
- I don't know how.
- Grab.
- So I would be...
- Maybe you should grab this and you twist it like that.
And then you would go to this, no no.
- And then you go like that.
- This one.
And then you do this.
And then you do this and then you kiss.
(mwah)
- We did it, Alita.
- I smashed her, she didn't get a chance to smash me,
but we'll work on that.
- We did it.
There was smashing.
- Yeah.
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