If We Wanted To Make It The Way I Imagined I Knew That We Would Have To Wake Up Earlier And Start Very Early. So We Prep Like Crazy. And The Competition You Have Is Like Avatar, You Have Star Wars, You Have All The Big Marvel Stuff. So If You Want To Come In The Race, You Know, Don't Be Pretentious.
I Saw Cara Delevingne Like Five, Six Times. And I Was Never Talking About The Film [valerian]. And Then At The End, I Say Okay, Let's Do Some Test. She Says Yeah, Yeah, Good. So I Took Her In The Room, And I Test Her For Like Six Hours Non-stop. Exercise, Exercise, Exercise For Six Hours. It Was Actually Funny. And Then I Knew At The End Of The Six Hours.
If You're Someone From The Government And You Meet People From Other Countries, You Want To Know Who You're Dealing With. It's The Same For Them [in Valerian].
I Was Kind Of Surprised That, About 99 Percent Of The People Grabbed The Thing [in Valerian].you Know It's Their Thing. And I'm Very Impressed By That.
Cara [delevingne] I Wanted To Be Sure That She Would Be Involved. 'cause She Didn't Do A Lot Of Films Before I Met Her, So I Didn't Know If She Was Serious And So I Push Her A Bit.
For Example, In Your House, You Have The Heater On The Ground Itself. Here, It's The Gravity. No Matter Where You Are, That's Where The Gravity Is Coming From. It's Almost Like A Carpet That You Put Down. If You're On The Other Side, It Doesn't Matter To Us Because We're Still Walking On The Ground. Actually, At The Beginning Of The Film [valerian], We See When They Install The Gravity System.
I Have Like 10 Actors And 100 Aliens In The Film [valerian]. And They Come From The Four Corners Of The Universe. Some Of Them Are Liquid. Some Of Them Are Just [so Visually] Crazy.
Be Humble And Say Okay, All Right, I Have To Prep Myself. So Everybody Prepped, And We Finished The Film [valerian ] Four Days Before The End.
We Have [in Valerian] A Bible That's 600 Pages. There Are Five Pages On Each Alien And Where They Come From. Even The Address You Can Check On The Map. On The Star Map. It's Real Numbers.
I Wrote The Entire History Of Alpha Because The Space Station Was Around For 500 Years. I Have 30 Pages On The History Of Alpha. Every Ten Years What Happens. They Took Control And What Happened. Every 80 Years, They Have To Change The Communication System Because It Doesn't Work Anymore. Some Aliens Come With New Technology, And Suddenly You Can Change The Electric System. We Wrote The Entire Story [for Valerian]
When Cara [delevingne] And Dane [dehaan] Arrived, I Told Their Agent, "they Need To Know All This." I Gave Them The 600 Pages. I Said, "you Have To Learn Everything. You're A Cop. You Need To Know The Names." I Don't Want Him, When He Meets An Alien To Go, "whoa" Like This. I Want Him To Know If This Guy Is Peaceful.
