Zazie Beetz Breaks Down Her Most Iconic Roles

Now, I have some questions for you about this movie in particular.

I've read recently that you don't do a role unless you're, like, interested in the movie as a whole.

Yeah.

Right? And what about this movie drew you in?

I think a lot, usually I start with a script generally.

I feel like a lot of times if a script doesn't really have legs, then the movie can never really come to shine.

You know, if like the skeleton is in theory, it's not much to build off of.

I

read you say something about the skeleton and without it, there's no bones, there's no blood.

Oh gosh, I'm repeating myself.

No, no, no, no.

But it's true.

No, I'm sorry.

That's not what I was going to say.

No, no, no.

But it's true.

Like, I feel like I've done a bunch of projects where I'm like, oh, maybe it'll get there or whatever.

But it's very hard to do that.

So, but this movie in particular, I started reading it and within 10 pages felt like, you know, the first 10 pages are basically the story.

diner scene the first 10 minutes of the movie where sam rockwell does this whole monologue about the ai demise and it's incredible yeah it's that was the first week of shooting too and so it was like we were all like whoa like he really killed that so

is sam rockwell is he like is he on that level of if he's involved i'm saying yes is he that is he close to that

Yeah.

I mean, he was attached, and reading the script, picturing him doing it, was just such a lock-in for me.

I think the script was also written for him, so it had his voice perfectly, and I could just...

See, yeah, the vision was coming together.