Ant-Man and The Wasp - Quantumania on Disney+ - Our review and trailer
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Peyton Reed's action-adventure sci-fi film starring Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly and Michael Douglas, arrives on Disney+ on July 19, 2024. Released in cinemas on February 15, 2023, this film plunges viewers into a new quantum epic starring Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne. [Read more]
Quantumania is a superhero movie, but it's also and above all a movie about family, a little dysfunctional, but a family nonetheless. How did you approach this aspect of the film around the relationship between Scott and Cassie ? How did it go with Paul Rudd and the whole team ?
Kathryn Newton: It was amazing. I mean, it's an incredible experience for me to be part of the Marvel universe. It was huge, right? Like it was a dream come true. But then to work with these legends like Michelle Pfeiffer and Michael Douglas, Evangeline and Paul, it was... incredible. They were so caring. They made me better. They gave me so much confidence. Paul encouraged me to take risks, to try things and fail. And I've always loved the Ant-Man movies because they've always dealt with the subject of family. So I was very excited to join this movie as Cassie Lang, Ant-Man's daughter, because the heart of the Ant-Man movies has always been family, and this movie is definitely about a father and daughter reconnecting. It's like a family road trip. The movie is just set in the quantum realm and there's a really bad guy named Kang, and it's all Cassie Lang's fault? I was really looking forward to it.
The character of Cassie Lang appears episodically in the MCU as a child in the first two films and as a teenager in Avengers Endgame, you appear for the first time in this film. How did you manage that role with that context, the context of your character?
K. N.: You mean? Can you repeat the question?
You are appearing for the first time in this role. There were two actresses before you in the first Ant-Man movie. The second one too and Avengers, and I just wanted to know, how did you approach this role, with this background, the background of the character?
K. N.: Well, I like the Cassie Lang that I met. You know, I'm a fan of those movies, so I rewatched all the Ant-Man movies and we thought about carrying on her legacy. It's a new version of Cassie that we haven't seen before. We saw her as a little girl, we didn't see her as a woman trying to be who she's supposed to be or who she wants to be. So we really thought about keeping her magic, her hope, her spontaneity, like her joy. She has so much joy. And I loved her. I had a big challenge on my hands. And the fans. What I learned most from studying Cassie, the ones we met, was how much the fans really loved her. They already loved her. There was already a fan community for Cassie Lang, I was looking forward to being a part of that legacy by playing Cassie, and I really hope the fans love her as much as I loved playing her. Because for me, when I first read the script, with Jeff Loveless, our writer, and Peyton Reed, our director, we had a meeting and they asked me, "Do you have any comments? Do you want to change anything? How do you feel about it?". And I said, "Any comments? The role is written for me." Like she looks like me. She is like me. We're the same person. I always wanted to be a Marvel superhero. My whole life. I've always dreamed of this opportunity, I've always thought about it, I was always training like a superhero, like I knew that one day I was going to use my body to play a role and give it everything. And when I got the part of Cassie Lang, it was better than my wildest dreams. It was beyond perfect. I felt like I was born to play this character, you know? And I can't wait for everyone to meet this new Cassie. I really hope you like her because no one on earth would have had more fun playing her than I did.
How was the shoot with the rest of the cast? Do you have any funny anecdotes to tell us?
K. N.: I could talk about funny anecdotes for hours. This movie was so much fun to shoot! Every day was better than the last, from start to finish, there was this one day... I think it's pretty funny. It's not the funniest thing that's ever happened, but that's the one that came to my mind, was with Jonathan. He's not a funny guy, okay? He's not supposed to be funny, but he uses the "Method" and I didn't know that. I met him in the morning and he was so nice to me that I thought, "Oh my God. And we were hugging, it was so sweet. And then I walked onto the set and he was in his bad guy role and he was so serious. But I didn't know he was in character. I went up to him and we started talking and he was staring at me. And he laughed. He was like... And I was like, "Paul, what? What was that?" And then Paul Rudd says to me, "He's playing via Method, Kathryn" I think it's really funny. I had no idea he was using the "Method" and I was trying to talk about stuff like lunch or something and he was like, "This little girl, she has no idea who she's talking to." And I was like, "Oh my God. But he was in character the whole time!" I talked to him later, I asked him, "Do you know what you did?" And he was like, "No, I have no idea. I was Kang." I was like, "Wow." But Paul Rudd made me laugh every day. There's not even one story to tell you because I missed every scene because I was laughing too hard.
Ant-Man and The Wasp - Quantumania on Disney+ - Our review and trailer
