Lana Condor was "freaking out" when she saw Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before star Lana Condor has admitted she was "freaking out" when she first sat down to watch her latest film Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken.
The animated action-comedy stars Condor as Ruby Gillman, an awkward teenage girl who soon discovers that she is a direct descendant of the warrior Kraken Queens - who are sworn to protect the oceans from power-hungry mermaids - and heir to her grandmother's (Jane Fonda) throne.
In an exclusive interview with Digital Spy, Condor discussed the making of the film and revealed her reaction when she got to see it for the first time.
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She explained: "What we did on this film, when I was in the booth, there was always a camera capturing my facial reactions.
"The animators would take that into account when they were designing her, so in many ways, a lot of her expressions were my expressions in real life which is so cool."
"As a kid, I was like, 'It'd be really cool to be in an animation where I'm a dragon, or a monster or something that's not human', so that's just so much fun to see in real life.
Condor added: "I was freaking out. When I screened the movie, I started crying during the DreamWorks opening sequence."
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Condor also discussed the challenges she found with voice-acting compared to her live-action roles. She shared: "I think the biggest challenge is that I think I'm a pretty expressive entertainer with my face.
"So I think that you often don't really have questions like, 'What is she thinking?' because you see it clearly on my face, for better or worse, that's me as Lana anyway and oftentimes I'm like, 'Lana, your face, calm down'.
"In animation, you don't have your facial expressions as a tool, so you're solely dependent on your inflection, your tone, your diction to emote. For me, I can't rely on expression, I have to rely on doing that through my voice."
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is released in cinemas on June 30.
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