It started with this kind of [LAUGHING]..
In your scenes you spend some time
with McKenzie Foy as Clara.
Yup.
Can you tell me what it was like working
together in your scenes?
Oh, I loved working with MacKenzie.
I mean, pretty much all of my scenes are with MacKenzie,
and the shoot was about four months.
So I got four months of lovely time with--
she's so lovely, she's so intelligent, she's so talented.
She's just a joy to be with.
Keira's just amazing.
I've really, really enjoyed working with her.
She's such a nice, down to earth person.
You can literally talk to her about anything
and she would just listen and be a good friend.
Can you tell me what your favorite moment
on set with Keira was?
I don't know.
We have spent a lot of time together.
But I think pretty much just when
we, when it was kind of just relaxed on the set
and we could just sit and talk about nonsense
was really fun just to get to know her.
And did you have a very favorite moment on set
together?
A favorite moment?
MacKenzie falls over a lot.
This is terrible, but it really is.
But partly because she's a Taekwondo double black belt.
- Oh, I did not know that. - Yes.
I was like MacKenzie, you're doing fight
scenes where you're brilliant.
But ask her to walk down a corridor and she falls over!
I was able to do in the film-- it's kind of like
a front kicky kind of thing.
I kick a soldier in the face.
And was really, really excited about it.
I am a black belt. I'm actually a second degree black belt,
which I recently got in the spring,
which was really, really cool.
I worked really hard for it.
And I fall over a lot.
It's so embarrassing.
I'll just be walking and I get distracted, or especially when
I--
sometimes I get too in my head and then I trip.
When you first put on your costume,
makeup and stepped out on a set as the first time
as your character, what was that feeling like?
I mean it was just--
I looked like a cake.
I mean, I've never looked like a cake before.
So I mean, it's--
the whole kind of character is really silly.
A lot of the work that I do is quite serious.
It's quite serious subject matter.
So it was just, it was the opportunity
to kind of work in this kind of magical world and play somebody
who is so utterly ridiculous.
Honestly it was magical.
Being in-- especially my first day on set.
It was in the Christmas tree forest,
which is when you see Clara come out of the tree and that's it.
I was running around this massive set that
was covered in snow, and they had glitter in the snow
so it's sparkled.
I was just walking through in the forest.
You hear just the little hum of the camera in the background,
of the film going.
It was just like, wow.
We're making a movie! - So beautiful.
It was so cool.
And how do you go about, when you find out I
am going to be the Sugar Plum Fairy...
How do you go about figuring out that character?
The theme of the Sugar Plum Fairy is arguably one
of the most famous bits of the Nutcracker music,
which is that [HUMMING].
So I thought, maybe I could laugh it.
So it started with this kind of [LAUGHING] thing.
And I thought well if her laugh is going up there then maybe
the voice needs to go up there, and actually
she's the Sugar Plum Fairy so she's
sugary and sweet and just sort of like, you know,
pink and lovely.
It all sort of went up there.
The ballet tells the story of the four realms.
When you were first cast as Clara,
what do you do to prepare and figure
out who that character is?
What I really focused on was her emotions.
Figuring out how does she react that her mom has died?
How does she react with her family?
Figuring that out.
And then also going into what was she like before that?
Did you get any advice from your fellow actors?
Miss Helen, she was telling me that this is an incredible set.
It's so unique in how it's so practical, to just enjoy it.
Enjoy the craftsmanship and the beauty of this film.
If you could tell someone who had never
been to the Four Realms what it was like,
what would you say to them?
OK, well we've got the land of the snowflakes.
You've got the land of the flowers, which is all flowers.
And we've got my land-- well, the land of amusements which
is like going into a kind of fairground,
although there's bad things that have
been happening there, so it's a little bit
tricky at the moment.
And then there's the land of sweets,
which is obviously the best.
So everything is made out of sweets.
Ooh, I would tell them one, this is the coolest place.
It's full of magic and happiness and all kinds of
different and cool characters.
But there's also danger going on.
There's Mother Ginger who is terrorizing everyone.
So there's a big battle going on and we
all got to pitch in and do our best
to help fight the darkness. - Yes.
I can't wait to see what happens.
Yeah.
And what do you want audiences to take away from this film?
I think the same as the ballet.
Just that sense of magic.
You can be anything.
You can do anything in this world
as long as you believe in yourself,
and always keep that imagination, creativity
and magic in you.
This is McKenzie Foy's film.
You know, this is a film about Clara, and she saves the world.
How great is that?
She doesn't get rescued.
She saves the world.
I love that so much.
So do I.