Joss Whedon Talks When James Spader was in a Motion Capture Suit as ULTRON in AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON


Ultron. He's a villain who would take over humanity, and the planet, and then create a Matrix-like reality to sustain himself and his rule over the planet. That's some fan fiction of what could happen if the Avengers do not prevail in Age of Ultron but obviously the heroes will beat the villain otherwise there wouldn't be a Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Writer and director Joss Whedon has been hard at work on Avengers: Age of Ultron since The Avengers released in theaters. Whedon has fully committed himself to Age of Ultron, which is one of the reasons he implied to Nerdist.com that he was done with Marvel Studios films after the Avengers sequel releases on May 1, 2015. (Although the potential of Age of Ultron becoming the No. 1 box office hit of all-time could always change Whedon's mind a few months from now.)

Whedon teased how it was working with Ultron villain actor James Spader, when he was in his motion capture suit on set.

"Ultron feels a certain distance from humanity. The day Spader got [on set] we put on the mocap pajamas, a giant thing with red dots on it for his eye line, and... giant pack, and a helmet with two cameras in his face with lights to record his performance. He then did a scene with Scarlett [Johansson], but she couldn’t look him in the eye, she was looking up in his eye line... nor could he see her because he had two lights shining in his face, and he had his glasses on. Therefore [Spader] has a certain distance from humanity, too.
“He and I share a genuine love of this version of Ultron, and he has an innate eccentricity in his delivery that is everything that I had hoped Ultron would be."

Sounds like there were no strings on Spader, except those attached to the electrical devices he was wearing, while he was delivering his performance as Ultron. (I'm no comedian but that pun was intentional.)



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