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  • For me,

  • the most important thing is the story that I'm telling.

  • Whether it's a scary set piece or a dramatic moment

  • it all comes down to the characters

  • and if you care about them.

  • Aquaman is very powerful,

  • but what drives him comes from a very human place.

  • His story resonated with me instantly.

  • He's not accepted here, not really accepted here.

  • I definitely can identify with that.

  • I fell in love with the project and fell in love with Mera.

  • She's no damsel in distress.

  • She's the strong, badass, empowered superhero.

  • With Aquaman, the trick and also part of the fun,

  • is designing a whole different world that we've never seen before.

  • You're pretty much just limited by your own imagination.

  • It's just a whole lot of magic on this project.

  • Once they put all these things together behind James' vision,

  • it blows my mind still.

  • The appeal of it was to step into something else.

  • You really are invigorated because of it.

  • You get to experience all these amazing worlds.

  • We haven't been under the ocean yet, this is our outer space.

  • I keep going back to that inherent fascination

  • that we have with the ocean.

  • And if it turned on you.

  • Just the sheer vastness and the mystery of it.

  • There's still a lot we don't know.

  • I've always known that I wanted to do an action movie.

  • I get to be a big kid on the playground, and

  • cause trouble, blow things up.

  • Your body is constantly working.

  • You're doing Judo, Jiu Jitsu, fight coreography.

  • After four and a half months of stunt trainging,

  • six days a week...

  • you feel pretty superhuman.

  • I get to present Aquaman to the world in this really

  • badass and cool way.

  • We have never seen this on screen.

  • And that's the truth.

  • We get to fall in love with the idea of what it's like

  • to have these powers and be a kid.

  • And that's fun for the family, it's fun for everyone.

  • We want to create something interesting,

  • we don't want the standard.

  • James Wan can't do the standard.

  • Any great superhero story should make you feel that you've

  • learned something from these characters.

  • And you yourself have the ability to do good.

  • And you don't need a cape to be able to do that.

For me,

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