You mentioned there’s a love triangle. Can you describe the nature of that?
Bryce Dallas Howard: “I really can’t say anything about any of that. I really and truly can’t. What I will say about this film in particular, I mean, I’m sure audiences and you guys notice the second film was twice as big as the first film. The third film is like three times as big as the entire franchise put together, and that’s a testament to how much integrity and passion that everyone who’s working on this truly has. It could just sit back and say like, ‘You know, we got it. We’ve got the people that are going to be in the seats opening weekend. We’ve got it.’ And they don’t do that.
They work so incredibly hard and they push themselves artistically. They push themselves on how to make this the most entertaining film. And then what Sam really brings into this is how do we make this above all moral for the kids who are going to be seeing this? And bringing this back to Gwen Stacy, he’s very reverent to everything that the people would expect and yet it’s surprising. And so, you know, I don’t want to give anything away - none of us do because we don’t want to betray the audience, because they had that opportunity with the first and second film. They really didn’t know what they were going to expect and it made it that much more entertaining.”
How does it feel to be made into action figures?
Topher Grace: “I saw a kind of version of mine…”
Thomas Haden Church: “I saw mine, too. Yeah, it’s weird. It’s like a little plastic me. I can do whatever I want with me. Bathe me…with a toothbrush. What is your action figure going to do, Bryce?”
Bryce Dallas Howard: “It’s going to have huge bazoombas.”
Topher Grace: “I’ll buy one.”
Thomas Haden Church: “Every eight year old in China is going to really look forward to that.”
Thomas and Bryce, have you shared Paul Giamatti stories?
Thomas Haden Church: “You know, we only met once - in the make-up trailer. But Bryce just mentioned to me how much she adores Paul and he’s very dear to me. He’s a very good friend of mine.”
Bryce Dallas Howard: “Paul keeps telling me how much I totally missed out on not being able to [hang out with Thomas].”
Can you say anything about your scene with Cliff Robertson?
Thomas Haden Church: “No. Once again, I may or may not be in this movie. No, I really can’t comment on any specifics.”
Bryce, are you involved in the action scenes?
Topher Grace: “You get in there.”
Bryce Dallas Howard: “Yeah.”
Topher Grace: “She’s a trooper.”
How did it feel to have to train for months and Bryce just had to dye her hair?
Thomas Haden Church: “You know, it was physically daunting to show up last year with the physique of a fishwife and weirdly, they said, ‘This won’t work for us. You’ve got to be more built.’ But actually Topher and I both trained.”
Topher Grace: “You got slightly better results…”
Thomas Haden Church: “You just try to tow the line and do what’s asked of you. But it’s definitely been a great discipline. I worked out for probably 16 months and it was a good, just a good discipline to have in my life. It was very invigorating to reincorporate that.”
