Percy Jackson Movies » Alexandra Daddario

New Exclusive interviews of Percy Jackson cast at Gofobo

Kyle King — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:30:15 +0000

We have partnered with Gofobo for exclusive interviews of Alexandra Daddario, Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson. They are asked how they liked working with Chris Columbus, who they play, what greek god they would be, and why they did this film. Watch the interviews below or on Gofobo for their answers.

Check out all of the interviews at Gofobo

Sneak previews from a few of Gofobo interviews are below

ReelzChannel Hollywood Dailies: Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario, Brandon T. Jackson

Kyle King — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:47:40 +0000

Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario, and Brandon T. Jackson being interviewed on ReelzChannel Hollywood Dailies.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW1kC6WVnBg

Interview with Alexandra Daddario

Rebecca King — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:21:06 +0000

Listen to this interview with Alexandra Daddario as she talks about Percy Jackson.

Interview from Cinema Blend. HERE

Recording of Live Cast Interview from Feb 29

Kyle King — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:00:57 +0000

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief Cast Interviews Live from Athens from HeyUGuys.co.uk on Vimeo.

Recording of the live cast interview from February 29th.

Interview of Alexandra Daddario

Kyle King — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:00:26 +0000

Below is the interview of Alexandra Daddario who is playing Annabeth Chase in the movie by Sonja C. on the Scholastic blog. A link to the interview.

Q: Were you a fan of the Percy Jackson books before you were cast?

Alexandra: I actually had not heard of them before the audition. I read the first book before my screen test and loved it. I’m glad that I got introduced to them because they’re amazing.

Q: Do you have a favorite character besides your own in the books?

Alexandra: My character’s pretty great. I mean Percy is of course a great character. Poseidon is a great character as well. The gods are very interesting and the great thing about Greek mythology is the gods make mistakes, they’re more human. So they do mischievous things and they have arguments and get jealous. So some of the gods are very interesting, Ares especially. In the movie he’s a very fun character.

Q: What’s the best memory that you’re going to take away with you after this experience?

Alexandra: There’s a lot. This movie completely changed my life in a great way. It’s a once in a lifetime movie and working with some of the greatest people that you can work with. Chris Columbus [the director] is amazing. So many wonderful actors. Besides learning so much, from all the different people I got to work with, it was just a really fun experience. The sets are huge and epic, the visual effects are incredible and when you make a movie like this, the movie is so fun and we had so much fun making it just because we had so much wonderful stuff to work with.

Q: There are absolutely die hard fans of this. Did you feel any pressure about living up to their ideas of your character?

Alexandra: Not really. I hope — I take that back. I do in that I hope that I do the character justice. I love the character — I love Annabeth. I had a lot of fun playing her and I think that people will be happy when they see the movie even though it is different in some ways than the book. I think that Chris has made a really really great film even with the changes and I hope that I’ve done the character justice and I hope that people love her as much as I do.

Q: How would you describe Annabeth?

Alexandra: She is a great combination of strength and weakness I think which is interesting because what you see her as at first is just very tough and very strong, and you start to see that she has this sweetness and this weakness underneath that. Which I think everybody does. So even though she’s half god, she’s also very human and that makes her a lot of fun to play because you get to be really [tough] and do awesome sword fighting and jumping out of trees and archery, and then you also get to play the soft sweet side of her that misses her mother and is struggling to be happy just like everyone else.

Q: If you woke up one morning and you were a demigod, what would you do?

Alexandra: I don’t know. I guess I got to experience everything that a demigod would get to experience just by doing this movie — sword fighting and wearing armor and running through the woods and stuff like that. I can’t imagine. I mean I’d love to go to Olympus, to really see real Olympus. And meet the gods in person.

Percy_jackson_armor Q: Did you do a lot of your own stunts?

Alexandra: Yeah. When I first got there I sort of — I’m not that awesome in real life so you’re a little intimidated at first. “Can I pull all this off?” But once you get into it and the people that I got to work with, the stunt people were really incredible, you get exactly the right tips and tricks and I think I pulled it off. It becomes a lot of fun after a while.

Q: What was the most difficult scene to film?

Alexandra: A lot of times when you have an ensemble cast like this, there are scenes where the movie is so huge and there is so much other stuff going on as far as visual effects and sets and shot set-ups and things like that so sometimes there’s not much to do. Even if you’re in a scene you might not have lines or you might just be in the background. That’s actually the most difficult to do, just spend a day where you’re standing there or doing one thing and not really getting to do much.

Q: Was there a favorite scene or a favorite costume?

Alexandra: I loved doing the stunt stuff. We went up to Lake Alouette in Vancouver and we filmed right on the lake and it was just beautiful. It was a beautiful summer day and I had this scene where I basically fight off five guys and we’re all dressed in armor — of course in real life I never would have been able to win that particular fight but we choreographed it wonderfully and it was a lot of fun. You get to just dress up in this great armor and kick butt all day. So it was a lot of fun.

Q: How heavy was this armor?

Alexandra: Not that heavy. It didn’t have a lot of metal on it or anything. It was a little bit tight at times but it looked awesome.

Percy_jackson_group Q: When you think of Brandon and Logan [the actors who play Grover and Percy], what is the first thing that comes to your mind?

Alexandra: They’re funny. I actually am a very lucky girl. Working with Logan and Brandon was a lot of fun. They are great actors, very focused, very talented and they’re very lighthearted so they find humor in a lot of things. So it’s a very awesome experience to work with them.

Q: Is there an obstacle in your life that you have had to work to overcome?

Alexandra: Well there’s so many actually. I mean there’s just so many things. No matter how difficult something may seem at the time, if you stay positive and look forward and work hard, you will achieve whatever your dreams are I think. I worked very hard to be an actress and sometimes it was very hard and you get rejected a lot and you go for long periods of time without working and then all of a sudden something comes along that can really change your life that is exactly what you always wanted. It doesn’t mean that everything becomes perfect, but as long as you work hard and don’t get discouraged if there’s something you want or believe in. My nerves, I mean a million times I was so nervous I literally used to get panic attacks. Especially on screen tests. My first screen test I was seventeen and I flew out to L.A. and I went into the room to read for a TV pilot and it was like an audience of network executives and I had a panic attack and couldn’t breathe and I didn’t get the part, needless to say and I was very upset and very discouraged. Sometimes things happen that can teach you. You make a mistake and you learn from it and then you don’t make it the next time. And then my next screen test was a lot better, because you learn to think differently so that you don’t have a panic attack in the audition room.

Live Percy Jackson Cast Interview Here! Watch here!

Kyle King — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:30:04 +0000

Cast interview and an exclusive clip from the film. This is going to be awesome! Logan Lerman, Brandon T Jackson, Alexandra Daddario, and Jake Abel are scheduled to be on the live interview.

Local broadcast times and the live broadcast, brought to you by Upstream, below.

Video clips at Ustream

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Percy Jackson Cast interview with New Clips!

Rebecca King — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:00:59 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9MolypjN9E

Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario, Brandon T. Jackson, and Jack Abel were interviewed by FOX news in Philadelphia. There are new scenes shown like the fight between Percy and Luke, Annabeth fighting Percy, and Grover’s goat legs are shown. Check it out!

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Meet the Cast of Percy Jackson This Sunday!

Rebecca King — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:24:31 +0000

You can meet the cast of Percy Jackson THIS Sunday (January 17th) at the Hot Topic store in Frisco, Texas! Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario, Brandon T. Jackson, and Jack Abel will be at the store!

Just purchase the Percy Jackson Tour T-shirt for $25 at the Stonebriar Centre Hot Topic location only and receive a wristband that guarantees you the opportunity to meet the cast. BUT you have to be an HT+1 member. Find out about it HERE.

Percy Jackson Cast Interview at Avatar

Kyle King — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:00:15 +0000

About.com has released a cast interview from the LA premiere of 20th Century Fox’s ‘Avatar’. The interview is of Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, and Alexandra Daddario.

What did I get from this interview? That all three are obsessed with the a** word, apparently thinking that it makes the movie sound cooler or something.

What do you think about this interview? Does this make you excited for the movie? Leave a comment below.

LINK TO INTERVIEW

Here is the transcript from the interview:

Rebecca Murray from About.com Hollywood Movies at the LA Premiere of 20th Century Fox’s Avatar

Brandon T Jackson, Logan Lerman and Alexandra Daddario from Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

A lot of people are really excited about this Percy Jackson movie. Tell me all about it.

Logan Lerman: “It’s just the most bad-ass film ever made. No, no, no. That’s hyping it up.”

Alexandra Daddario: “It’s a really fun, awesome movie.”

Brandon T Jackson: “We’re really excited because we’re bringing in Greek mythology…”

Logan Lerman: “…to the modern day.”

Brandon T Jackson: “And vampires are cool, you know, but right now it’s about Greek mythology. The son of Poseidon, he’s a demigod that lives in New York City and he’s a teenage demigod. I’m his protector. I’m a satyr.”

Logan Lerman: “It’s a modern-day Hercules story. It’s a lot of fun, you know? I’ve got to battle Medusa, the Hydra, and all those things.”

So is there a lot of green screen?

Logan Lerman: “Yeah. I mean, you know we did pretty much all of our stunts – all of us together. But most of it was green screen though, but any time you see us doing anything, we’re really there. It’s not like they’re animating us in or anything like that. We’re really doing everything. It’s really crazy. So, we just worked our asses off. See the film.”

Did you do a lot of stunts?

Alexandra Daddario: “I did a lot of stunts. I get to play this really bad-ass chick and kick ass.”

Logan Lerman: “She’s so cool in it. She really is. So is Brandon. Brandon kicks ass in it too.”

Brandon T Jackson: “I try to kick some ass.”

Logan Lerman: “They do.”

Alexandra Daddario: “We’re all pretty bad-ass. I got into great shape during this movie.”

Brandon T Jackson: “The thing about this movie is that everybody can see it, too. Yes, parents, teenagers, kids…everybody can love it. It’s not like one of those movies…”

Logan Lerman: “We made it for everyone.”

Brandon T Jackson: “It’s not like one of those movies you sit back and go, ‘Oh my god, I have to sit through this movie for kids.’ No, it’s like, ‘I can enjoy this too.’ And you get to see Uma Thurman as Medusa which is awesome.”

Alexandra Daddario: “She’s amazing and terrifying.”

New movie poster of Annabeth

Kyle King — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:59:04 +0000

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