EXCLUSIVE: Jasmine Matthews Opens Up About Stunt Training, Green Screens, & More For The Tomorrow War
Jasmine Matthews stars in the upcoming Amazon Prime Video flick, The Tomorrow War, and we had the wonderful opportunity to chat with her about her new film. Jasmine plays Lieutenant Hart, a military officer from the future in the upcoming moview.
On the message she hopes fans take away from the film: “I think I would love for people to be able to take that message of – we have this idea of everyday regular people coming together dedicated to one mission, and everyone has their purpose. Everyone has something that they can do to help save the world. You need a Norah [Mary Lynn Rajskub], you need a Cowan [Mike Mitchell] to do what they did in order for the world to be saved as well. It’s this idea that it’s going to take all of us together, focused, and dedicated to save the world and make this a better place. I just love that idea, that unity aspect to it.”
On the most difficult scene to film: “It’s my opening scene when I’m flying into the soccer field. I’m afraid of heights, terribly. I have to come in and command the stage and deliver this very important monologue that sets the tone for the entire movie. I just remember rehearsing at normal speed and flying down with this heavy gun in my hands, and you can’t stop. Once your feet touch the ground, you have to keep going. The camera is super close, so I had to stop before I ever hit the camera. I was really scared about that. Just the simple fact of overcoming my fear of heights was incredible for me. I remember Chris McKay a couple of times, he was like, ‘Jasmine, relax. Fix your face. It’s okay. You’re not coming to kill these people. You’re coming to deliver a message of peace. Don’t make them think that you’re coming to kill them.’ Once I just found my breath and trusted Tommy, our stunt coordinator, and just got into the character and the gravity of the situation, it worked out pretty well, but I was terribly afraid.”
On filming in front of a green screen: “That was my favorite part, being able to use my imagination too because like my inner child, once you say I look stupid, whatever, I don’t care, it allows your inner child to come out and play. Given the times where I couldn’t pull from my imagination and my image of the white spikes, I would just substitute somebody who pissed me off and I never could reconcile my emotions with them, I put them up there and just take all my anger out on them, which was really fun.”
The Tomorrow War will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on July 2.
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