Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) goes on fairly a journey to defeat Ramona Flowers’ (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) exes within the Scott Pilgrim franchise, which started as graphic novels by Bryan Lee O’Malley, was dropped at the large display by Edgar Wright in 2010 with Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, and most lately in Netflix‘s anime collection Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.
The present dropped at life the characters who inhabited the pages of O’Malley’s books with assist from the movie’s forged as Cera, Winstead, and lots of extra reprised their live-action roles as voice actors this time round. For these much less conversant in the IP, Scott is a twentysomething Canadian band member who finds himself obsessive about Ramona Flowers, a mysterious American with an ever-changing, brightly-hued hairdo.
Linked to the youthful Knives Chau (Ellen Wong), his draw to Ramona outweighs all else, even when he learns she has a league of evil exes decided to ship his demise.
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TV Insider caught up with the movie and voice stars Winstead and Wong following Scott Pilgrim Takes Off‘s premiere as they open up concerning the soar from actual life to anime. For Wong, it was her first expertise entering into the voice-over sales space. “I obtained to behave otherwise with my voice,” Wong says, noting how completely different of an expertise that was.
Having been greater than 10 years since enjoying the character was one other problem as properly. “She’s nonetheless 17, so I actually needed to discover her,” Wong remembers of getting again into character. “I needed to… loosen up my voice a bit bit and discover that lady who’s turning into a girl, and that was actually uncomfortable. However then additionally actually attention-grabbing and in addition fulfilling and superb,” she gushes.
Winstead had the problem of revisiting her character at a younger age but in addition had the enjoyment of approaching her with some extra knowledge because the anime took Ramona into the longer term. “It was good to carry extra of the power of who I’m now at 39 to Ramona and have all that life expertise behind her,” the actress shares. “And what’s so nice concerning the present is that BenDavid [Grabinski] and Bryan did that as properly. They kind of are revisiting this story from after we had been all in our twenties and taking a look at it via the lens of being in your late thirties.”
The expertise of seeing younger Ramona and Scott alongside older variations of the characters was one thing Winstead calls “very meta and all very emotional and extremely genuine to their expertise and our collective expertise. And I feel that that’s a part of why individuals have embraced it a lot as a result of that viewers has grown as properly.”
See what else the celebrities are sharing about their expertise of revisiting Ramona and Knives for the anime collection within the full video above, and catch Scott Pilgrim Takes Off anytime on Netflix.
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Streaming now, Netflix
