News/Media: Michelle Rodriguez talks Rain Ocampo via interview.
Thanks to Collider Michelle talks the dual roles of her Rain persona via Resident Evil: Retribution. Excerpt as follows.
We talked to Oded Fehr a little bit earlier and he was saying how you’re playing a dual role in this movie and how you’re defying your usual roles and playing that up a bit. Can you talk more about that?
Rodriguez: Yeah, that was fun. Well, basically Paul’s original idea was that a UPS worker would be one of the clones and then we got together and we started to brainstorm and we came up with this juxtaposition of me playing a tomboy all the time and he said, “wouldn’t it be nice to see you feminine, Michelle?” And I was like, “yes, that would be nice before it all wrinkles up and I can’t use it anymore.” So I figured I’d might as well do it. I threw on some high heels, added a nice little ‘hippy twist’ to the whole thing and before you know it, I’m driving a Prius in Zombieland. It was pretty cool.
What are some of the challenges of oscillating back and forth between “Good Rain” and “Bad Rain”?
Rodriguez: You know, I find it kind of fun because I’ve played the same character for so long that it’s kind of like I am always an exaggerated version of my angry side. I’m so comfortable with her that it was kind of cool and fun to play something awkward and different- someone who is quirky and doesn’t know how to handle a gun and someone who is curious. I kind of feel like an audience member while playing that character because I’m like “what the hell is going on here? Why are you dressed like a superhero? How come there are dead people walking around on the streets?”
