- Obviously, you took the most stressful scene in the movie,
so let's see if I'm surviving. (laughs)
Hi, this is Mélanie Laurent,
and I'm gonna take you through "Oxygen" shot by shot.
You ready?
(mysterious music)
So I think I have almost no more oxygen.
And I'm panicking, and I'm trying to find
how to just get out from the situation.
And MILO, it just stressed me out so much,
which was exactly how we did it 'cause I had the count,
plus the text, plus so many actions to do.
(speaking French)
That was my box. That was home. (laughs)
Pretty quickly, I was like,
"This is my home. This is my new home."
Alexandre gave me that opportunity.
That was very nice from him.
He asked me to choose the person I wanted to be,
like, the MILO computer.
'Cause we had to go through all those scenes,
and he was supposed to talk to me
because we needed the real reader and the real voice
to just make that effect on MILO.
When he talks, the blue light moves with him.
(chuckles) So my best friend, Morgan,
was talking to me as MILO, and then Alex was telling me,
"Look at here, more left." (laughs)
So I had two voices.
(speaking French)
The worst thing for me actually was all those cables
because the cables were attached to the box.
The problem is when you wanna pee, for example. (laughs)
You have to say, "I'm sorry, guys. I need to go to pee."
And then it's like 10 minutes to get out,
10 minutes to come back.
So people will hate you when you say, "I want to pee."
Then I remember why I did abs before.
Because I was like, "How I'm gonna train for that movie?"
'Cause I'm in a box, so the mental is super important,
but physically it's super important.
It's even more important.
So I remember I did a lot of abs for that scene.
(breathing heavily)
We didn't do a lot of takes, usually.
We rehearsed most of the time, and then you just go for it.
When you know you're not gonna make 10 takes,
you just give it all on the first one.
When I read the script, it was more like the challenge of
not the box, not the situation, not the emotions,
just when I was reading some scenes and I was like,
"I don't know how I'm gonna do that."
And to be able to be challenged again
and to be able to be stressed and having doubts,
it's pretty cool.
And it's pretty amazing having some scenes certain morning
and being like, "I don't know how I'm gonna do that."
So end of the day, when you did it,
and when you watch at your director and he seems happy,
you're like, "Okay, I did that."
I still don't know how, but I just did it.
(speaking French)
The whole movie is built on you trying to survive,
and every time you feel like you maybe made it,
something wrong's gonna happen.
(speaking French)
(breathing heavily)
(speaking French)
We talked about that with Alex:
how she's gonna smile, when she's gonna smile
for the first time because she's so anxious the whole movie.
And then we had to just deliver some humanity.
That's what I love the most about that character
is she's so human,
and I feel like the audience is gonna be close to her
because she doesn't know how to deal with so many things.
And I love that part for that.
She's very, let's say, normal in a unreal situation.
(speaking French)
Well, if you wanna know if I finally get out from that box,
just watch the movie. (laughs)
And good luck.
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