It’s been six years since we last saw Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg together onscreen in 2009’s Adventureland and their reunion was definitely worth the wait.
They star as a stoner couple, who go from slackers to stoned cold assassins after learning of a government plan to kill them, in American Ultra – but they are sorry about all the casualties they cause.
“It’s like if Canadians were in an action movie,”; says Eisenberg. “Exactly!”; Stewart laughs, adding, “it’s like ‘don’t make me kill you. I don’t want to kill you’ and then they die and you’re like, ‘I’m so sorry.'”;
Stewart definitely has no regrets when it comes to taking on this role. She tells us it was a no-brainer. “As soon as I heard that Jesse was attached to this, before I read it I was like ‘I’m positive. I know if he wants to do it I’m sure it’s great and if they want me to do it then I’m there.'”;
The two underwent some serious training to pull off their fight sequences, but they admit they wouldn’t be able to hold their own in any real-life battle!
“I wouldn’t want to go out on the street,”; Eisenberg admits. “The fighting we did in the movie was kind of this acrobatic style fighting… like you have to be very strong and fast and uh…”; he trails off as Kristen chimes in, “we’re not.”;
Well, what they may lack in brute force they make up for in humour! They recently posted a Funny or Die video where they interviewed each other spoofing the types of questions males are asked versus females.
The co-stars say the video has helped during this press tour in terms of limiting the amount of awkward questions they’re getting – and they actually have Eisenberg’s sister to thank for the idea! “She just finished college gender studies class so I think she was attuned to the kind of horrible,”; he says. “Distinction, “; Stewart adds, “between the way a man and a woman are interviewed.”; Eisenberg continues, “she really helped us out.”;
American Ultra hits theatres August 21.
~ By Kim Gonsalves
