I added some trailer screencaptures (now, the official ones) to our gallery, including one with Ana Braga, Alice’s mother, also working on this movie.

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Shock Till You Drop: So jumping right on in, can you talk a little bit about who you play in the film?

Alice Braga: I play a character named Isabelle. She’s a sniper. She’s, we can say a tough cookie. I can say that she’s sweet inside, but tough outside, but just to do her craft more than anything. It’s funny, Nimrod, the director, he gave me a little book that talks about snipers. It’s kind of a manual that snipers use in the Army. It talks a lot about how they prepare and what are the qualities that a sniper must have. One of the qualities, like being really focused and you cannot be emotional. You cannot take emotion from your work. You cannot look at the other – to think about the target and not that. So it’s hard to kind of say because specific things about a sniper, but mainly knowing that information, it tells a lot about how a sniper is and that who she is, at the same time, a strong woman, so balancing her career and her personality. Does that make sense, what I just said? (Laughs)

Shock: Can you talk about being the only woman character in the ensemble cast? Then, plus being the only woman on set?

Braga: It’s awesome. (Laughs) It’s really cool. No, I’m kidding. It’s really nice because it’s only eight characters and my character, funny enough, is the one that is always trying to grab everyone together and like, reuniting everyone and stop the fights and saying that we have strength in numbers instead of being alone fighting these creatures, together we can be stronger. It’s really interesting because the boys, I call them my boys, I call them the boys, they’ve been amazing with me. They protect me and we create things together. Sometimes I’m like – I need girls around me because I’ve found myself like, talking about cars and about girls and I’m like, “I need girls around me.” (Laughs) But it’s really wonderful. As an actress it’s been a great experience. I’m having fun. I did different films. Like, “City of God,” there’s a lot of boys around me as well. So it’s been really cool. It’s funny, interesting enough, there are not many girls in the crew. In Hawaii it was even less, it was only me and the script supervisor and here we still have a little bit more, but still a lot of men. It’s fun. I’m loving every second of it. I think we created a unit that is really strong and I think we kind of brought that as actors and as characters I think we got that unity of it.

Shock: Is there any romantic elements in the film?

Braga: Who knows? (Laughs) I’m gonna leave that for you to think about it.

Shock: Are you used to running from creatures and fighting creatures?

Braga: I learned a lot I must say, but the great thing about this one is that we, as you guys can see, the creatures are dressed (in practical suits). So from “I Am Legend,” it was running from Teletubbies which is kind of the guys in suits with dots and I’m like, “How does it work? Okay.” Then I look at the pictures. So that’s the difference, but it’s interesting enough. It’s a different situation. I think “I Am Legend” had a different quality as a drama because it’s something that happened to society and are human beings that mutated into something else. That, I think it brought a lot for me and Will Smith to look on. Different than this one, it’s a different world and it’s a different kind of creatures that we’re running from.

Shock: As a sniper, it’s interesting because it seems like the Predators have captured all these big tough macho guys who are like, military folk are fighters or whatever. But as a sniper you have a very specific tool which is the gun. So does your character sort of have a disadvantage on the planet of not having her sniper rifle with her?

Braga: I have my sniper rifle.

Shock: Oh, you do?

Braga: Yeah, I do all the time. It was 14 pounds during the whole shoot. I’m really strong right now.

Shock: So the Predator is like, you keep it?

Braga: Yeah, we start the film with our own guns and stuff and then from there the stories start developing. But I have, each of us have their own thing as the characters bring, so I was lucky enough to get that. It’s funny that you said that because normally it would be a guy, a sniper and that’s why I like that the script is a girl because a girl, as I was saying about the emotion, girls are really emotional, we have period. Once you have period you get emotional. So it’s like, how come a girl is the sniper of the team? But it’s really nice to balance that. I’ve never done a character like this and it’s been a challenge because you need to find that strength, but at the same time you cannot lose her own being. It’s kind of been interesting to balance that and also as a character, how to stand up and face other seven guys, they are just making fun. Like the first few pages of the film of course the characters are like, you know, calling her, or playing with her, or taking her for granted or all of those things. So I think it’s interesting how to get that strength not for women, but for the character more than anything, just playing it not as a woman or a guy, but playing a strong human being.

Shock: Did you get to use the Predators guns at some point? Did you get a hold of their weapons?

Braga: Who knows?

Shock: Did you learn to really shoot?

Braga: Yes, we didn’t have much time. We didn’t have a boot camp or something. But as soon as we got in Hawaii we had Mike (Hanovitz). He’s a sweetheart and he’s been great for me. Like, I call him my teacher because my relationship with the gun, like, we were talking. He taught me a lot about it, like a sniper, spent hours and hours just crawling, or hours looking for the target and all these little details he gave me. When we got in Hawaii we did a whole day of just shooting. We couldn’t do every day, but that day I kind of learn everything and every time we head off I would like, work with it, especially when I had to train my arm. I did a lot of not weight lifting, but I went to the gym because the first day of shooting I lift and five seconds my hands were like – it’s 14 pounds, it’s really hard to aim at something. The camera is here and you need to aim and then suddenly start shaking. So we kind of built that where the arm goes because they really like, go and it’s there. Sometimes it was off, so we kind of trained that. The shooting we trained not much, but we did train just for us to be aware of the noise and all that. But mainly we focused on being like, looking good at the craft. So I was really worried about looking nice because if a sniper sees it I hope he can look and say, “Okay, she did a nice job. Maybe this is missing, this is that,” but just respectful to what they do. It’s a hard profession.

Shock: Could you talk a little bit about fighting some of these super Predators?

Braga: It’s cool. (Laughs) It’s really nice. It’s interesting. I still have like some scenes to shoot, but it’s interesting that once you feel like, “Oh my god, I’m in a ‘Predator’ film,” everyone knows the Predators and all that, so the first time I saw it I was kind of, “Wow, this is interesting. This is cool.” Especially that I’m short, it’s really scary because I’m a small girl. I’m 5’4″ I think and the creatures are probably, you know, I don’t know how tall they are. So it’s been cool. It’s been really nice. The good thing about being a sniper is I don’t need to have contact with it. (Laughs)

Shock: I was gonna ask you about that. Obviously the setup would be sniper long distance, but inevitably in every movie the sniper ends up very close to the villain and has to engage physically. So can you talk a little bit about preparing? I’m just gonna go out there and say it happens, so could you talk a little bit about preparing for say, a battle like that?

Braga: It’s funny enough, we’re still shooting so I haven’t got into it as much as the other characters did. Mainly the boys did, they shoot a lot with it. I haven’t done much yet, but because of that I really went to the gym for this film. I did a lot of running, I didn’t lift weights, but I just wanted to be strong if I needed to do repetition for a few scenes, or fighting scenes, or trying to kick something and be ready for it, I would, but we haven’t shot many. I think the boys can answer you better.

Shock: You were saying that in this movie not every character, but some of the characters have similarities or threads or counterparts in the original “Predator” film. There’s also one woman in the original.

Braga: No, funny enough, I saw the “Predator” film before doing my audition when they called me to audition for it. Then, I saw that just to understand what they wanted from my character and all that. Then I put it apart and I never saw it again. I didn’t want to keep trying to get something from it. I think it would come on the script, if that boss would write something. (Laughs as Robert Rodriguez walks by the room) But then I just wanted to focus on what we were doing and pretending nothing ever existed because our characters didn’t know, so they don’t know that the boss is. (Laughs) But, yeah, so it’s just I feel like it was great to see it just to get it as an inspiration and see Schwarzenegger doing, “Get to the chopper,” all those, it was really cool, but I think I prefer like, not thinking that I know those creatures because the character doesn’t know much.

Shock: I hesitate to even ask this, but in some of the things I’ve read about your character, there’s something of a secret to her personality. You know what I’m talking about.

Braga: Yeah.

CS: So how much do you bring that through playing it in the rest of the film without showing?

Braga: Without showing, yeah. I always try with my characters always having something inside and kind of understanding where she comes from, I think like every actor. But, hints of it during the film that maybe people are going to say, “Why? Why?” and then suddenly, “Oh, I get it.” I don’t (like) over thinking it too much and I’m not trying to play it all the time, but I just hope I can make the journey. I think in films like this it’s important that the journey gets complete. They say in drama school it’s like the hero journey or something like that. I don’t know I try to. I’m having fun with it, let’s see how it comes out. It’s hard because once you’re doing action films there’s so much going on that we need to put ourselves into it, but let’s see. I hope you guys enjoy.

Shock: It’ll be like a second watch like, “Oh, that’s that.”

Braga: Yeah, I hope so, “Hm, I see it,” great question. Thank you so much guys. Nice to meet you.

Variety has confirmed the trio will be joining the previously announced Anthony Hopkins and Colin O’Donoghue in Hafstrom’s take on Michael (Queen of the Damned) Petroni’s screenplay. Hopkins will play an expert in exorcisms while both Hinds (pictured) and Jones will portray priests.

The Rite centers on a disillusioned American seminary student who attends exorcism school at the Vatican and ultimately finds his faith through encounters with demonic forces.

Plot Concept: The film stars Adrien Brody as Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they’ve been brought together on an alien planet… as prey. With the exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold-blooded killers – mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members – human “predators” that are now being systemically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien Predators.

Predators will hit theaters July 7, 2010.

According to official website, Isabelle (Alice character)’s featurette will be up next April 20.

In the futuristic action-thriller “Repo Men,” humans have extended and improved our lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called The Union. The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is that if you don’t pay your bill, The Union sends its highly skilled repo men to take back its property… with no concern for your comfort or survival.

Jude Law plays Remy, one of the best organ repo men in the business. But when he suffers a cardiac failure on the job, he awakens to find himself fitted with the company’s top-of-the-line heart-replacement… as well as a hefty debt. But a side effect of the procedure is that his heart’s no longer in the job. When he can’t make the payments, The Union sends its toughest enforcer, Remy’s former partner Jake (Academy Award® winner Forest Whitaker), to track him down.

Now that the hunter has become the hunted, Remy joins Beth (Alice Braga), another debtor who teaches him how to vanish from the system. And as he and Jake embark on a chase across a landscape populated by maniacal friends and foes, one man will become a reluctant champion for thousands on the run.

The film is based on the novel “The Repossession Mambo” by Eric Garcia.

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Also if you didn’t saw already the official trailer, you can find it at the Official Repo Men Website. Screencaptures was added to the gallery: