Here’s a funny Q&A done earlier this month where Hailee and Asa talk about a scene with Harrison Ford, the battle school lingo, and their off time on set.
They’re all amazing actors. Are there any stories you can share about working with them? Anything that happened on the set?
Butterfield: There’s one story with Harrison. It was on the shuttle, from when we first got into Battle School. We were all strapped into our chairs. We were in Zero-G, so our hands were floating. And then we look over our shoulder and Harrison comes in on a harness, just floating through the shuttle, and then he does his speech. And on his way back he started to flip. It wasn’t deliberate; he just started to roll over in the shuttle. I don’t think he found it as funny as the rest of us.
We all know the battle school slang the kids take up (bicho, kuso, farteater), if you’re wondering if the slang made it to the movie, it did.
The book is known for some pretty colorful curse words. Did they make their way into the movie?
Butterfield: They did. What were some of them? Bernard had… What was it? There were. All of the “Ender’s Game” lingo from the book is still in the movie. And all the cursing and stuff.
Like all friends, the cast played around during their off time and be sure there were pranks done. Read how director Gavin Hood pranked Hailee during their last days of filming.
Steinfeld: At the end of the film, one of the cast members, Moises Arias, who plays Bonzo Madrid, had to shave his hair for the ending scene. You know, it’s one of those things where you’re OK with it because you have to do it, but it’s also like, you know…
Butterfield: You’re shaving your hair.
Steinfeld: Yeah, it’s a big thing, right? So Moises handled it very well, but you could see he was a little, you know, taken aback by looking at himself in the mirror and this drastic change. And Asa and I walked on set and Gavin turns around and has a black eye. My heart dropped. I was like, “What just happened?” And he goes, “I told him. I told him that he could take it out on me because I made him shave his head. And I was literally, like, crying. I was like, “Moises would never do that. What’s happening?” And then they were like, “Just kidding! It’s makeup!” I was like, “I’m done. I’m getting out of here.” That was the biggest prank.
You can read the full Q&A HERE.
Source: Moviefone
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