Olivia Thirlby on her behalf Role in 'Dredd' and Fighting Aliens in 'The Pitch-dark Hour'

You might not know Olivia Thirlby by title, but chances are you already know the 25-year-old actress, who's starred in from 'Juno' to 'No Strings Attached' to 'United 93.' Knowing from her approaching slate of films, title recognition could soon follow too. Additionally to showing up alongside Paul Dano and Robert P Niro in next year's 'Being Flynn,' Thirlby is placed to experience Judge Anderson within the buzzed-about sci-flick, 'Dredd.' The film, in line with the comic series, was initially modified in to the notoriously awful 1995 movie 'Judge Dredd' with Sylvester Stallone (not too it matters -- Thirlby has not even viewed that certain) fans from the comic happen to be clamoring for an additional version since. Moviefone lately spoken with Thirlby about walking in to the role of Anderson, whether she would be a sci-fi geek becoming an adult and how it is like fighting aliens, which she does in her own approaching film, 'The Pitch-dark Hour,' in theaters Xmas Day. So things get pretty physical together with your character in 'The Pitch-dark Hour.' I heard you probably did all of your own stunts. Used to do. I acquired bumped up with many different gnarly bruises, however it was fun. It had been interesting. It required lots of endurance. I have been curious if doing all of your own stunts is really fun. It is a type of dependent on necessity, like several things they cannot make use of a double for because they have to have the ability to see my face. It is also dependent on what types of stunts you will find, like there's certain stunts which i wouldn't happen to be able to do, but our stuff for 'Darkest Hour' was me around the rig connected to wires. It had been mostly just falling and being pulled. All of the aliens within this film are computer produced. Could it be difficult to elicit that kind of emotion when what you are said to be freaked out about is not even before you to begin with? It is not easy to shoot for the reason that respect, because many of the time things that you are said to be responding to don't exist yet, so it's really a challenge for the reason that regard, since you do need to use fantasy to well appear like you are afraid of something, which at that time your camera is moving, it's totally not there. Whenever we were filming 'The Pitch-dark Hour,' we did not know exactly what the aliens would seem like, we did not actually have a graphic reference. Therefore it was defnitely a large challenge to market individuals type of extreme moments when you are just producing them out of your own imagination. So you have got 'The Pitch-dark Hour' and also the 'Dredd' being released. Had you been a large sci-fi geek becoming an adult? To tell the truth, I wasn't a sci-fi geek whatsoever. However I deeply love a great sci-fi film, especially one that will really get you away. And That I read some reality-bending books becoming an adult, like stuff by [Kurt] Vonngeut, and so i already had one part my brain available to the abnormal and unusual, and it is generally fun to head to that world and film inside it. Have you even bother watching the initial 'Judge Dredd' movie with Sylvester Stallone, or did you need to use having a clean slate? I really did not watch the initial one deliberately, and that i still haven't. However I believe that at this time, it isn't an intentional choice. I'm excited to determine [the initial], and whenever I've the possibility [I'll. But throughout shooting, I made the decision to not watch it, simply because the film i was making really is not related to it, and that i did not would like to get affected because of it whatsoever. With 'Dredd' -- and to some extent, 'Being Flynn,' according to 'Another Bullshit Evening in Suck City' by Nick Flynn -- do you experience feeling more pressure because each of them come with an established group of followers? Yeah, certainly. Obviously, the Nick Flynn group of followers is quite different from the '2000 AD' group of followers [laughs]. It is a little daunting [for 'Dredd'], where I'm personifying a personality which already is available very firmly in individuals minds, which individuals have an attachment to and also have an affection for. But my hope is the fact that people react to it plus they believe it is something that enhances their creativeness and also the ideas they already had developed, rather than conflicting together. All I'm able to do is hope and pray which i will not be disappointing anybody. The smoothness which i play in 'Being Flynn' does not really appear in his memoirs, she's type of an amalgam of individuals. So fortunately I'm not living as much as real people there. Should you consider the trajectory of the career, you've ongoing to obtain bigger roles in bigger films. Out of your perspective, would you seem like you're beginning to maneuver right into a different tier of acting and/or celebrity at this time? It's all regulated relative. I still audition a great deal and work really challenging work. And So I don't really walk around feeling like I have managed to get [laughs]. My temporary goals are actually simply to be artistically stimulated and also to be looking forward to material I would be focusing on. I'm less worried about maybe how each project suits the large picture of my career, as lengthy as, with an individual basis, it's compelling and fun. Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook