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

You will possibly not know Olivia Thirlby by title, but odds are you 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. Furthermore to turning up alongside Paul Dano and Robert P Niro in next year's 'Being Flynn,' Thirlby is positioned to see Judge Anderson inside the buzzed-about sci-flick, 'Dredd.' The film, using the comic series, was modified to the infamously awful 1995 movie 'Judge Dredd' with Sylvester Stallone (much less it matters -- Thirlby hasn't even seen that particular) fans in the comic are actually clamoring for the next version since. Moviefone recently spoken with Thirlby about walking to the role of Anderson, whether she will be a sci-fi geek maturing and just how it is just like fighting aliens, which she does in their approaching film, 'The Pitch-dark Hour,' in theaters Christmas Day. So things get pretty physical along with your character in 'The Pitch-dark Hour.' I heard you most likely did all your own stunts. I did so. I obtained knocked up with numerous gnarly bruises, nevertheless it was fun. It absolutely was interesting. It needed plenty of endurance. I've been curious if doing all your own stunts is actually fun. It is a kind of determined by necessity, like every things they can't take advantage of the double for because they need to be capable of see my face. It's also depending on what kinds of stunts you'll find, like there's certain stunts that we wouldn't occur to have the ability to do, but our stuff for 'Darkest Hour' was me round the rig attached to wires. It absolutely was mostly just falling and being drawn. All the aliens in this particular film are computer created. Can it be hard to elicit that type of emotion when what you're stated to become freaked out about isn't before you to start with? It's not easy to shoot because respect, because most of the time things that you're stated to become reacting to don't exist yet, so it's actually a challenge because regard, because you need to use fantasy to well look like you fear so much something, which in those days the digital camera is moving, it's completely not there. Once we were filming 'The Pitch-dark Hour,' we would never know just what the aliens would appear like, we didn't really possess a graphic reference. So that it was defnitely a sizable challenge to promote people kind of extreme moments when you're just creating them from your own imagination. So you've got 'The Pitch-dark Hour' as well as the 'Dredd' being launched. Had you been a sizable sci-fi geek maturing? In truth, I wasn't a sci-fi geek whatsoever. However deeply love an excellent sci-fi film, especially one which will truly enable you to get away. Which I just read some reality-bending books maturing, like stuff by [Kurt] Vonngeut, therefore i already had one part my brain open to the abnormal and unusual, which is generally fun to mind to that particular world and film within it. Perhaps you have even bother watching the first 'Judge Dredd' movie with Sylvester Stallone, or did you should utilize getting a clean slate? I truly didn't watch the first one deliberately, which i still haven't. However think that at this time around, it is not an intentional choice. I am excited to find out [the first], and whenever I have the chance [I'll. But throughout shooting, I made a decision not to watch it, due to the fact the film i had been making is really not associated with it, which i didn't need to get affected due to it whatsoever. With 'Dredd' -- and to some degree, 'Being Flynn,' based on 'Another Bullshit Evening in Suck City' by Nick Flynn -- sometimes you may feel more pressure because all of them include a recognised number of fans? Yeah, certainly. Clearly, the Nick Flynn number of fans is not the same as the '2000 AD' number of fans [laughs]. It's a little daunting [for 'Dredd'], where I am personifying a personality which already can be obtained very firmly in people minds, which people come with an attachment to and possess an affection for. But my hope is always that people respond to it and so they believe that it is something which improves their creativity as well as the ideas they previously acquired, instead of conflicting together. All I am able to perform is hope and pray which i won't be disappointing anybody. The level of smoothness that we play in 'Being Flynn' doesn't really come in his memoirs, she's kind of an amalgam of people. So fortunately I am not living around real people there. In the event you think about the trajectory from the career, you've ongoing to acquire bigger roles in bigger films. From your perspective, can you appear like you are starting to maneuver in to a different tier of acting and/or celebrity at this time around? It's all regulated controlled relative. I still audition a good deal and work really challenging work. Therefore I don't really walk around feeling like I've handled to obtain [laughs]. My temporary goals are really only to be creatively stimulated also to be searching toward material I'd be concentrating on. I am less concerned about maybe how each project suits the big picture of my career, as extended as, by having an individual basis, it's compelling and fun. Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook