SciFiWire.com recently interviewed Anton Yelchin about what it’s like playing Kyle Reese, a character created by another actor 25 years ago.
For me, it’s exciting to hear about all the thought a talented actor is putting into his role. For example, on the “Come with me if you want to live” line:
I might be overanalyzing it, because I watched it so much. You need to really watch it a lot to get the little [nuances], and I’m sure it wasn’t deliberate. It was just the take that they used, but that’s part of the hero of Kyle Reese. There’s an objective that he needs to achieve, and there’s an intensity to it, but there’s also a masculinity and a strength to it. So having watched all that and kind of getting to set and trying to kind of use those things and incorporate them into the performance, it’s a lot of work for one line, but it’s a hell of a line.