Sophie Turner basically can’t live without her Juul. She has it with her everywhere, even when she travels back in time to film Game of Thrones.
The rest of this story has a spoiler for Dark Phoenix, but I doubt anyone was going to see that anyway. I love the X-Men and I’m not going to see it because all the movies other than Logan and Deadpool have been really disappointing and with the Disney buy-out we know they’re going to completely relaunch the X-Men after this anyway.
Jimmy Kimmel had the cast of Dark Phoenix on to talk about the film ahead of its launch on Friday, and Jennifer Lawrence gave us an interesting look into Sophie Turner’s process.
During the course of the film, I’m assuming this happens pretty early on, Turner’s character Jean Grey, or Phoenix, kills Lawrence’s Mystique, as part of her losing control of her powers and her mind. They played this whole thing out really well in the comic books in the 70s with the Hellfire Club controlling her and twisting her mind as opposed to her just having her enemies surrender and then losing her s**t and killing a million civilians for no reason.
It was an emotional scene, and Lawrence told everyone how Turner summoned up the emotion for the scene.
I teared up a little bit watching Sophie in that scene it was so, her reaction to my death was so raw and real. I died with my eyes open. And it was so honest and real, and it’s because she really was crying. Because her dialect coach, right before the take, took her Juul away. She started genuinely tearing up. It was like the performance of the year. It was amazing.
I have to admit, this is a much better acting process than sending dead rats to hot Australian women.