The star of Ick Malina Weissman in front of a new type of monster, supergirl memories and more! (Exclusive)

With Ick Making theaters this weekend, we had the chance to sit down with Malina Weissman (A series of unfortunate events; Supergirl) to talk about his role as Grace in the new Monster film by Joseph Kahn.

In our conversation, Weissman shared what attracted him to the script, the challenges of the shooting of the intense sequences VFX-Heavy of the film, working alongside Brandon Routh and Mena South, from his personal point of view on what the Ick represents, and even his thoughts on the future of Supergirl.

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Rohan: Which initially excited you with the script for Ick And the character of grace?

Malina:: Joseph, for his part, completely attracted me to the script. He did so many emblematic things and worked with so many emblematic people, and the second I met him on Zoom, before going to film. I loved it. We first clicked, and I think he has such a motivated view of what he wants, and I was so inspired. And the character of Grace is super relatable, super fun to play. She is super sardonic. She is not impressed by anything, but she is also really insightful, and takes up things that others are missing, and I thought he was a character so great and interesting to play.

Rohan: This film is filled with VFX, and you have already worked in this space. Was there something in this project that gave you a new appreciation of what is possible?

Malina:: Absolutely crazy, because when we started this process, none of us knew what the Ick would look like. None of us really knew how it had affected humans, and we were not playing with anything real, we were playing Green or boxes, and there was a scene where we were all running on the tennis court in the light, in the tower, and we had to jump over Ick. But we didn’t know where it came from, what it would be, what it would look like. And I just remember feeling so stupid to jump over random things or just air, and we had to pretend as if we jump over Ick. And it was so fun, but obviously so amazing to see what it looks like and how talented VFX are to create this whole world?

Rohan: You get a lively and spirit dialogue in this film. How did you address the grace lines-did you delivered straight deliveries or with comic intention?

Malina:: I don’t see myself as a funny person. I say it to my friends, I don’t really think I’m very funny. And I think what Joseph and I loved in the character of Grace is that she is not trying to be funny either. I don’t know if she does something funny. I do not laugh at some of the things she does, but I think that it is a large part of whom she is, that it comes so naturally, that that’s how she speaks. And I think most teenagers feel fed up with the world, sometimes, as if nobody listens to them, nor the world upside down, and I really connected to that. But I also think that it presents itself as a dry comedy, and I think funny things are linked when – like a dark comedy, I would say.

Rohan: There is a sequence with you under the bed attacked by the Ick, and another where you are upside down in a car. Was there a particular scene that was particularly difficult to film?

Malina:: Brandon and I have this long car scene, and the car moves, the car turns around and, yes, we were on this platform where we must both be upside down. Now, I applaud so Brandon that he had to make most of his dialogue upside down in real time, and as you can imagine, your blood rushes towards your head and you cannot easily speak. And I applaud him so much. He did such a good job, but it was very, very difficult because we had to make sure that he had enough time to be straight and, as, resume his breath. And it was fun. It was very fun, but it was really difficult to understand. And there was another scene where I am under the bed, under the covers, and the Ick attack, and they had a bunch of crew members with stuffed animals, just as attacking me outside with plush animals, which was actually more fun than difficult, but it was difficult to act frightened, I will say. It was so fun. Everyone laughed.

Rohan: Joseph said that the ICK is intentionally indefinite, almost as a metaphor. What did this represented you?

Malina:: I would say that Ick is a metaphor of so many things in our world, in my generation, uh, and these are monsters – I think that can be a metaphor. These are monsters with which we live in our life, such as fear, denial. It could be climate change, politics, so much in our world, there is a feeling about many characters and the whole city neglects what is happening. They try to ignore it. They look at him. They don’t want it to be real. Thanks, my character, tells everyone that they are stupid, but I think it’s a huge metaphor for so many things that are happening in our world at the moment.

Rohan: You and Brandon Routh Share a large father-daughter of substitution on the screen. How did you build this dynamic?

Malina:: Yeah, well, our first scene that we filmed together was actually the last scene in the film. So, opening up the letter, the letter maybe dad, was our first scene together and I think it was very useful for us to click immediately and find a kind of connection. And it was super easy. And I think Brandon is one of the sweetest guys I have ever met, as he is, so incredibly kind and welcoming, and made me feel like we should try to act. It came very naturally and I learned a lot from him. He’s superman, yes, it was so great. It was so great to work with him.

Rohan: How was it to work with Mena Suvari as a mother on the screen?

Malina:: I mean, I was so excited knowing that she was going to be in the film. And so, before meeting her, I said to myself, Fangirling, that’s for sure, and she is so kind to everyone. And I couldn’t even believe it, as if it happened and it illuminates the room, and it brings such a funny energy. And she’s so sweet. And, yes, her energy that entered the room was so hot and beautiful, and I really hope to work with her again.

Rohan: You played the young kara on Supergirl. Did you follow the new Superman Film, and what are your hopes on how this next supergirl iteration?

Malina:: I was really young. I think I was about ten years old. I don’t remember entirely, but I was about ten years old, and it was one of the first things I had ever done, being in a big set. And I was able to fly. They put me in a harness. And it was so much, so exciting and super stimulating as a young girl, to play Supergirl, or the young version of her, of course. And I hope that new development simply maintains their empowerment towards women.

From the rendering director acclaimed Joseph Kahn comes his latest film, Ick, a luscious horror comedy overflowing with Spattery Bedlam with Brandon Routh, Malina Weissman and Mena Suvari. For almost two decades, viscous growth of vineyard known colloquially under the name of “the IK” has slipped well in all corners and corners of American life while the residents of the small Eastbrook town remain jaded on its existence. The exceptions are the former star of high school football who has become a professor of Hapless Hank (Routh) and her sardonic perceptual student Grace (Weissman) who are launched together by the mother of Grace Stacaci (SUVARI) closely guarded and a mutual suspicion that the Ick is about to disappoint a little gay.

A wild ride driven by a powerful punk spirit, Ick is a dizzyingly fun and hilarious grotesque tribute for the horror films PG back, as well as an ode to the nostalgia of the millennium manifesting itself in the drops of needles of the soundtrack by American rejects, Paramore and Blink 182.