Jamie Lee Curtisdidn’t fully get into the mindset of herBorderlandscharacter Tannis until she arrived on location in Budapest.
Ben Davis, who’s an acting teacher, was talking about the different modalities of acting."
Not so much Curtis.
Jamie Lee Curtis as Tannis in ‘Borderlands’.Lionsgate
“I’m a straight-to-the-heart person.
I found myself listening and tilting my head, and all of a sudden, I started to cry.
Cate said, ‘What’s going on?’
Tannis finds a clue to an ancient vault on Pandora in ‘Borderlands’.Lionsgate
She also happens to be a little… unique due to her constant isolation on the planet Pandora.
She admits she only did so to work with Blanchett.
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“She explained all of it,” Curtis recalls.
It is not written that way [in the movie].
It’s not a movie about Tannis and therefore, I would not know.
It helped me so much.
I know many people who are on the spectrum, and there is that social disconnect.
Simply, it’s just a different labyrinth.
It’s full of art and interesting ideas, but it’s a labyrinth to emotions.”
DirectorEli Rothshot material with Curtis that highlighted that objectum sexuality (i.e., attraction to inanimate objects).
Read , in theaters Aug. 9, atEntertainment Weekly’s Comic-Con cover story.
The quote has since been corrected to “objectum” sexuality.
