We caught up with Jim Sturgess & Doona Bae to talk about Cloud Atlas.

QUESTION: This film is a wonderful trip through the history of the world. Do you feel the same way?

JIM STURGESS: Definitely. It’s such an exciting and ambitious project that does travel through all these vast amounts of time and to get to play a character in each one of those periods of time was a big challenge, but more than exciting.

QUESTION: What did you like about the story besides working with great directors?

JIM STURGESS: I liked that it’s so vast. There’s just so much going on in one story. Although it is six different stories, it does sort of weave together to tell one bigger story. So that whole idea of all these different genres actually coming together to make a whole new genre of filmmaking was amazing.

QUESTION: How enriching was it for you to jump from one character to another and from one era to another? I guess that’s what every actor would love to do, no? 

JIM STURGESS: It was just an opportunity like no other. You knew that there’s never going to really be a film like that again. When you get to do that and get to play more than one character in one film. That’s a rare opportunity.

QUESTION: Would you say the film explores the human condition in general regardless of ethnic origin, sexual orientation, historical period?

JIM STURGESS: I think it was really an ingenious idea to have all the actors play different characters because it does bring out that whole idea. It does transcend race and gender and age and all the things you were just talking about. To do that visually by using the same actors to bring that idea to the forefront, obviously that’s not a concept that’s in the book. I mean it’s a concept in the book but it’s not done by using the same characters, obviously, because you can’t do that in a novel. For Lana [Wachowski], Andy [Wachowski] and Tom [Tykwer] to use the visual medium of film and actors to highlight the ideas in the book was really clever.

QUESTION: Doona, I think you did a wonderful job. How did you like being part of the movie?

DOONA BAE: It was such an honor being part of it and my character is great. She is so pure and innocent, but at the same time she’s got a strong strength inside herself. It was fun to do. Working with them, working with all the cast and the crews and directors. I really enjoyed it. I love it.

QUESTION: Would you like to do more movies in Hollywood or outside of Korea?

DOONA BAE: Outside of Korea, yes, I would like to. I’ve been working for Japanese films. There is no border in filmmaking.

QUESTION: Do you think that film is an international language? In this case it’s amazing; you get to go all over the world, different periods. You sit there and it’s a great trip. Did you feel that way doing the film?

JIM STURGESS: What’s always so great about making a film is that you get transported to whatever period of time that film is set. You get to learn about the historical background or the political background of that particular time. It’s one of the great things about telling stories and being involved in filmmaking.

QUESTION: So are we going to see you in more Hollywood films?

JIM STURGESS: I don’t know. I don’t really see it on those terms. I just try and find interesting stories with interesting characters and wherever that sits is where it sits. I’m not really interested in whether it’s a Hollywood film. I mean, this is actually a very big independent film. A lot of the money came from Asia more so than it did from Hollywood, I think. So it’s kind of its own beast. I consider it to be a giant independent film.

 

Thanks to Juliana.

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