Yahoo News Exclusive: Invisible Man star can't reveal how they created invisible effects
The Invisible Man star Oliver Jackson-Cohen won't be revealing the magic behind the horror movie's effects anytime soon.
Talking to Digital Spy, Jackson-Cohen explained that he "wasn't necessarily allowed to say how it all happened" on set. However, he did add that for a character that was invisible, he was around on set more than you'd expect.
"I was on set an awful lot, more than I probably ever should have been considering I'm playing the invisible man," he explained.
"[There was] some stuff where Lizzie and I went through the script and we discussed which parts would be really important for me to be there performance-wise for her, so yeah, I was there an abnormal amount."
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When it came to realising the invisible man on screen, it turned out to be an unexpected challenge for director Leigh Whannell.
"There's a couple of fight scenes in the film where I wanted Elizabeth to be struggling with someone who wasn't there, and I found out it's very difficult to take someone away from the frame," he told Digital Spy.
"It's probably easier to add someone in and have them fighting a dragon or something than it is to totally remove somebody. So yeah, that proved [to be] a headache."
The Invisible Man brings the classic monster into the modern world by reimagining it as an abusive ex-boyfriend, making it very different to previous on-screen versions.
When it came to preparing for the role, Jackson-Cohen didn't "feel the need" to revisit former versions, given that it was such a different take.
"It's such a departure from anything we've ever seen with this before. What was really interesting when I was telling people, 'I'm doing The Invisible Man', they were like, 'Oh, like Hollow Man'. I was like, 'No, really not'," he recalled.
Elisabeth Moss ended up taking inspiration from something other than the previous version of The Invisible Man.
"What I took inspiration from was actually a film called Gaslight. An old black and white film that I felt was more [like] what we were doing than any previous iterations of the Invisible Man," she said.
Moss also spoke to Digital Spy about why she's drawn to so many dark roles like The Invisible Man.
The Invisible Man is released in cinemas on February 28.
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