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New interview with
The Legend of Tarzan director David Yates! Yates talks about Alex's Tarzan and Margot Robbie's Jane with
Entertainment Weekly.
From
EW.com:
Margot Robbie punched Alexander Skarsgård during a Legend of Tarzan sex scene
BY DEVAN COGGAN
Few romances have been adapted for the screen as often as the saga of Tarzan and Jane whether its Johnny Weissmuller telling Maureen OSullivan, Me Tarzan, you Jane in 1932s Tarzan the Ape Man or Andie MacDowell teaching Christopher Lambert English in the 1984 Greystoke.
But when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows director David Yates set out to cast the leading lady in his upcoming blockbuster The Legend of Tarzan, he knew he needed a Jane who, yes, had chemistry with Alexander Skarsgård but could also fend for herself in the Congolian wilderness. He found both in Margot Robbie.
If you enter the jungle with anybody, you want to go with Margot Robbie, Yates says. Shes practical, and shes smart, and shes resourceful. And she can take care of herself.
As the Jane to Skarsgårds Tarzan, Robbie is anything but a passive wife who sits around, waiting to be saved even when Christoph Waltzs villainous Leon Rom tries to use her as bait for her husband. (In the Tarzan trailer, she refuses to scream like a damsel when Rom commands her to.)
It was very important that we didnt want it to feel archaic or dated, where its like, tough guy has to save the poor girl, Skarsgård says. You have to feel that shes strong and independent, and when you cast Margot, youll definitely get that.
In fact, Skarsgård got a firsthand look at that strength in one particularly steamy scene.
Theyre doing this love scene together, and I said [to Robbie], Just slap Alex while youre making love, just kind of give him a punch, Yates explains. It was sort of an earthy, sensual moment of her enjoying sex with Alex, and the only bruise he picked up during the entire shoot was probably that punch from Margot. Which says a lot about her feistiness.
Source: Devan Coggan/
EW.com
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/03/30/legend-tarzan-margot-robbie-alexander-skarsgard
His smile is just gorgeous! Ugh, I wanna see WoE so bad!!! :cry:
