“SHE STUDIES HOW PREDATORS EVOLVE AND CHANGE”

HOW WOULD YOU SUM UP CASEY BRACKET?

She loves her job, she loves her dogs and those are her passions in life. She’s the top of her field and she studies how Predators evolve and change – she’s brought in by the government to figure out why this Predator is so much more advanced than the Predators they’ve seen in the past.

Would you say the characters are More nuanced than in the original Movie?

Instead of being these badass military guys, they are like a dirtier dirty dozen. They’re a bunch of misfits who are not the first people you’d call to save the world. We band together and become a unit, really for survival.

YOU DID X-MEN: APOCALYPSE A COUPLE OF YEARS BACK. ARE YOU NOW SEEKING OUT ACTION-HEAVY ROLES? X-MEN

On I did all the fight scenes myself, and after that I got that bug, I wanted to do a full-on action movie. But a lot of times in movies, when a woman is doing lots of badass action stuff, she does it in service to be the image of what we keep putting out with women: you either have to be a damsel in distress, or a hardcore badass – but not everyone has to be so tough to be respected. For her, as a scientist, I wanted her not to be proficient in weapons, but I wanted her to know how to pick up a gun and know how to use it. I said to Shane that we don’t see men picking up a gun and saying, “Show me how to use it.” Nobody asks why, they just go, “Of course, he’s a guy. He knows how to use it.” So I said, “Can we have the same assumption that we’ve had with men for years and years?” He was like, “Yeah, I’m going to do that.” The action that my character takes on is simply for survival, so she’s not a superhuman, and she’s not a trained soldier. But she has willpower and adrenaline that kicks in, raising a very normal person to a level of activity that they didn’t realise they would be doing.