MCM Birmingham Comic Con Saturday March 2018: Brianna Hildebrand

on a teenage warhead you may have also seen her Sasha in first girl I loved and then I and also in the exes TV series please give it up for the brilliant brianna hildebrand so hello Rihanna welcome welcome to permeate thank you very much for taking time to join us oh we're all good a very sedate here in Birmingham today I noticed now in the intro that I mentioned some of the stuff you've done now I mean prior to Deadpool I mean you'd only done like her kind of webseries a short film how did the kind of opportunity to do Depp what come along and how did you react when he got that my manager got me the audition for Deadpool and at the time I didn't know what it was I didn't know I was auditioning for Deadpool it was you know it had a codename my character had a codename her name was Cathy and I was just told that I was auditioning for a moody teenager and so I just I just went in there and auditioned with some oxides they gave me fake sides and yeah and then I got I got a callback after a couple weeks and and then that's when I figured out because I went back into the room to read again and like just Tim Miller and Ryan were in there and I was I figured out what it was and at that point did you I mean were you aware of kind of like how immense the fan loved this film before I even go released was ye yes and no like I knew because I had talked to Ryan he had let me know how long he'd been trying to make this film I knew it probably would have a huge following and there probably are a lot of people interested in it as much as he was but yeah I didn't really like before Deadpool I had never I didn't know anything about superheroes like I still don't really know much about superheroes so II quiz me but yeah so now I gotta ask you this question now a little birdie tells me that when you were younger you had a crush on a certain actor and then you took some pictures and use Photoshop and inserted yourself into pictures of Ryan Reynolds now then you is this true and then did you kind of bring this up when you once said yeah I showed up with the photos when I was in ninth grade i photoshopped myself I don't know why I wasn't even hanging out with him in the Photoshop photo like he's in the Photoshop photo I'm still in the back just freaking out that he's there but I thought it was a super cool like full circle moment so I printed out probably fifty of them and I brought them to set with me my first day and I just gave them to everyone and I was like look at this isn't this funny that's me today was like if he props for ninth grade level being able to do that that's pretty impressive thank you you wouldn't be impressed if you saw them I have it still was good but how did he react how did the cast react to that because there's not the kind of thing you'd expect to do on them on the first day working when that's how I said but Ryan thought it was kind of I thought it was kind of weird I gave him the photo and he was like oh thank you am I supposed to like keep this but you're kind of right though because it is a nice break and especially in a situation like that I can imagine when you're really nervous having to be on the set with I got this entire people lying and there's big crew and everything I'll and you've done previously kind of shorter films than that did you think that kind of kind of help get rid of some of that nose from your point of view yeah definitely it's kind of just like you know making fun of yourself usually gets a laugh from from people it makes you feel more relatable so I was like guys make fun of me and I was I was actually really nervous to work with everyone they just were all so much more experienced and I was I kind of felt like I didn't know what I was doing but yeah that was a good icebreaker and then you know everyone ended up being super nice and helping me figure out what I was doing which is kind of cool I mean for you as well because it may not just the Deadpool a good dude good fun job but I'd imagine kind of a learning experience for you before that I never shot a feature film it's I mean I had only spent a couple weeks working on anything so it was definitely an experience and it must be kind of as well daunting because when you work and I feel like Deadpool you can't say nothing to anyone can you really you're tied down because you don't they don't you'd give stuff away yeah how do you find that because obviously for a young actress who's trying to make her mark how tough was that to do especially if you've not had that before it was a little difficult it was cool I shared you know with my family I shared with my mom and my dad and I think having that just really helped me I could talk to them every day about how excited I was and also not be annoying because they're my parents so they have to deal with me being annoying yeah it was difficult though but you know you get used to it and then it becomes kind of fun it's like oh I know something that you so you could be like looking on the gossip like on the like fan sites again yeah you can dream about that one I was really going up do you find as well because for you I mean before you did their pool and then all of a sudden you're thrust into this limelight and everybody wants to know about this is probably during the filming I'd imagine as well they're trying to find out what's going on who's doing war how did you adjust to the kind of almost paparazzi feel that getting into a big movie can have on your life okay the only thing about my life was just the job opportunities after that which I was super you know excited and grateful for but yeah no one really knows who I am if I walk down the street I can like go get my mail and pick my wedgie in peace you know like no one cares and before you did temple and you were living in Texas am i right so how did you then kind of find moving from one place to the next and settling in especially in kind of I could really daunting Hollywood yeah my dad hated me I somehow convinced him to let me move when I was 17 I finished school and he gave me a year basically he said you have a year to get something going and if you don't and you're coming back home and so yeah I think that specifically lit a bit of a fire under my butt I was like I really have to be doing this if I want to stay here which I did yeah a really small town in Texas and I was really comfortable there so yeah I think that really helped me you know and when what was the thing like for you then because obviously they lit the fire under you you get to go and give him the call and tell him I'm gonna be in this really big movie Deadpool how much how do you feel when he got to tell them that it was cool to like hear my dad I didn't obviously get to see him but it was cool to hear my dad on the other side of the phone like be excited and secretly in his head he's like I didn't waste my money for nothing you know and what was it like when did you get to see the film with them yeah it's not that I watch a film with him yet my grandmother saw the movie okay she she's her husband is a pastor okay they're from a very religious town and so that was interesting yeah could we ask what her response and his response was my grandmother was like that was my favorite thing about that whole movie was that you did not curse one time I don't know might have been a memory thing their grandmother seal of approval you know you're all right and has it been lookin for you when are you saying about your father been quite a big figure in your life and things like that is there kind of a thing for you that you feel worried about accepting project then based on what people are going to react to it or do you just say now look this is my career I'm going to take control of this I mean I don't know being an actor is kind of weird because my job is literally just that you know I'm not a casting director I know a lot of people get really upset and sensitive about actors accepting certain roles and I know a lot of people who really sink into that for me I always just auditioned and no matter what and then you know if it works out then I have that conversation with my management and stuff but you know I think that I think that is part of the job is tackling characters and people that maybe you don't agree with or maybe are the exact opposite of you yes and one of the films you've done at the Deadpool and is actually is it really cool it's tragedy girls yeah and it debuted a fright fest here in the UK last year how much that's completely very dark comedy with a conovan undertone of a social media message how fun was that for you to film it was an indie movie we were super low budget we were like filming in the middle of nowhere Kentucky the United States some bugs but it was it was so much fun we had huge prosthetics the prosthetics guys made a giant Craig Robinson and then filled him with like blood and his insides and it was just super cold that I really loved the prosthetics like when the prosthetics came around I was like let me squish em and for those of you if for those are the people out on the way of the film just giving a brief synopsis of energy what tragedy yes it is so tragedy girls is a bit of a horror comedy horror AMA D it's about two girls named Mikayla and Sadie they're best friends in high school and they run a blog about the mysterious terrors that go down in their town and all the murders that are happening and yeah it's really fun it's really fun you get to like follow the girls around and secretly you hate them but you don't know why you love them it's it's a fun watch and you got to work with another actor/actress that's actually another x-man you've got Alexandria shipping the movie and you were kind of like playing off each other with us the whole friends that were serial killers kind of thing how much fun was it to work up and do something which was really quirky really really funny it was Alex and I lived together for the majority of that which was super cool and I had already known her from just photo shoots and conventions and stuff so yeah it was really fun and I love her she's the best and one of the things you do start writing you're also a musician as well you're extremely talented cuz you also write and do your own songs how does how would you know if looking back on your career and you could and all the stuff that you've had happen to you and you were writing an album based on that what would you call the album you can think about it we can come right back to you it's not no pressure we'll come back to later I'll ask you yeah and in terms of you writing and things and getting the music and making your songs where do you draw inspiration from your life or what parts of your life do you draw inspiration from I think it's just like poetry I think you can draw inspiration from really any kind of art really anything usually though I do use my own personal just because it's easiest I feel like I know most about those you know well we can throw open the floor to some questions so if you would like to ask beyond our question sticky hand up and I'll come around to you and then we will go from there I can't actually see anything so I'm going to assume that I can see some people get a start with this gentleman at the front ask a question they're your men hello I wanted to talk to you about tragedy kills cool because your character sadie is trying to build up a large social media following and you yourself have a large social media following on Twitter Facebook and Instagram did working on tragedy girls change the way you perceive or use social media you know it actually kind of did which you know you can take what you want from the film I'm not saying that Tyler intended to spread a message about social media you know you can take whatever you want from it but what I got from it was that social media has as much power as you allow it to have and yeah recently I've been posting less because I realized that maybe there are other things I could be doing that would make me more happy and I think that's like totally fine and you don't have to be proving to everyone that you're having a great time all the time you know yeah and we have a question from gentleman here hi just curious you were saying about how you got your first film or for your management how did you actually get your manager before you've done any professional work because that's obviously the hardest thing getting started yeah so how did you sort of go about getting representation so the reason I moved to LA was because while I was in Texas I had joined to be part of this competition it was for like acting and modeling and talent or something and I spent a couple months you know preparing stuff for that I performed at that and then my manager now just so happened to be in the audience I guess he was like just talent scouting in general so after that he he was like hey you should move to LA you know I think you have potential and I was like no and then I moved to LA like three weeks later and yeah that's how it happened it's a weird story and the question here in the front what's your favorite part about being an actor my favorite part about being an actor I mean crafty is cool crafty is always around which is great but I don't know I think you know what's really cool about acting is that you can work with all of the other actors you really get to know everybody and you kind of make a little family with the people that you're making art with and it's cool you know I'd never really understood that side of it until I gotten into Deadpool and then the relationships that you form are really nice and we stood on the front him did you enjoy filming the first one or the second one more definitely the first one not because the first one is any better or anything but when I was filming the second one I was also working on the Exorcist so there were a couple of weeks where I was doing days with Deadpool and I was working nights with The Exorcist and it was the worst the worst and how did you get through that because that must have been really as you say no it's really tough okay we have a question we steal right here yeah if now now the Marvel Oh Disney owns every character of x-men are you or were you asked to be in the new x-men movie that they're shooting or would you be up where if they have asked you it if they had asked me I wouldn't be able to tell you but I would definitely be up for that oh okay we're going back to that keeping a sequin thing she's very good so we've got a question here on the far side hello being like a teenager myself I know in-depth for you like portray quite a young person so it's wondering if you have any advice for young people today thank you Wow advice for young people today you know I would say just to like do you you know I feel like the earlier you find out that like everyone else up in everyone else's opinion literally doesn't matter the easier it is to live your life so you know get to know yourself do your think yeah question here to the middle hey hey would you ever consider if you had the opportunity to create to be a Bond girl is that something that would float you vote absolutely it's only gonna tweet this and make this after the next Bond so far your day's going well you've been offered a Bond girl role already learn okay we good question for me young person here when you're filming Deadpool was your favorite funniest backstage or on stage my favorite scene to film was at the mansion when I opened the door for Deadpool because we had a lot of improv and I had a really hard time keeping a straight face through that scene and also when we were filming all of the taxi scenes on the inside of the taxi we weren't really and I mean we were in a taxi but we were side of a studio with green screens and somebody really decided to let it rip I don't know who it was to this day but it was horrific and we just had to keep pushing through so I mean it's funny now it was terrible then and we have a question here I'm just wondering with the way that some of the recent events in Hollywood you're seeing women moving more towards the production side I'm thinking pletely Margot Robbie's sort of taken a very big stand on going producing their own projects develop her own project work because she's not happy with some of them the kind of roles that she's some of the roles she's been offered and some of the opportunity some of the opportunities that are the words giving is that a direction you can see yourself going in in future I I actually produced a short before I had done Deadpool it was just it was just a short but and it was really fun I had a really great time doing that and I had a lot of fun like giving my creative input and all of that kind of stuff so I think that would be awesome I'd be totally and grating him hi when you got told your character name negasonic teenage warhead how did you react and how did you go about explaining that to other people as well yeah it was a bit taken aback by that I didn't really know what that meant I was like why why would she have three names though but it was it was it was okay I had a long explaining of it to my dad he was like Tina Sonic nee head I was like no dude it's negasonic teenage it's always like a thing it's also why when I get asked to like write my character name I always I'm like what about an ntw like how does that make you feel because it's long yeah it's a strange okay I think Peggy Carter has a question obviously playing a moody teenager everyone in this room male and female can easily relate to that role but how much of your own personality did you get to throw into negasonic so much as I said I moved to LA when I was 17 and the reason I did that was because I was a very bad kid I did not do well in school I did a lot of things that I should not have been doing so when I got the role and I read besides I got really excited because I was like ooh like I I feel like I know exactly who this girl is because I was her like six or seven years ago so yeah it was really fun and also cool to get to like make up kind of her own backstory for myself since I couldn't really draw a lot from the comics yeah she's a lot of fun she's my favorite character and a question please gentlemen here hi Depp so like with the recent Fox Disney merger there is talks of like incorporating Deadpool and the x-men into the MCU so I'm just wondering how would you feel about like being part of that wider universe just working alongside like stuff like Chris Evans and Robert Downey jr. okay we got a question here in the middle which I'll have to pass the microphone down hi what can you tease for us about your role in Deadpool 2 [Music] it's a sad question because I don't really think anything you know she's she's still cool I never know what to say because yeah I mean at this point they haven't even given me a list of points to talk about and not to talk about so I probably should just like not talk about it I'm saying the only thing she can say is that she's in it that's it and what was it when did you first realize how commercially successful Deborah Binks is alike the highest-grossing r-rated movie ever when did you kind of realize and it also did it make it more daunting when you went to start work on the second one to bring in a bunch of people showing the movie they're like what did you like about that what did you not like about that and then they do reshoots and tweak it so I think when we had our first test audience viewing everyone got really excited like I remember talking to Ryan and Tim about it and then just being like oh like everyone's loving it like I think we think we're doing a great job I think we're really on to something and that was really refreshing because I mean the entire time we were making the movie we were going through budget cuts and running out of time and nobody was really necessarily believing in the project so probably the test audience screening helped with that and also yeah making the second one there's a lot of pressure on everybody I think Ryan in particular has been extremely stressed but you know it's all it's all in good fun and I think we're all excited to be back you know to film the second one so never let it get too much into our heads especially because you know everyone was doubting us the first time around and it ended up well so and the set it seems from what you've been saying he's very fun there's a very family-like feel to it after there was a time away he came back to film the second one how quickly did it take everybody to kind of snap back into that groove again it's weird because the entire crew for the second movie is different except for hair and makeup and you know a lot of the characters as well so it was kind of a bit like like a new family I think we had to establish new you know relationships and stuff but it was still fun I know it was everyone on the set of the second one is just excited to be on the set of Deadpool too so that energy I think really helps and for you what did you what was a what's been the highlight of your involvement with being in Deadpool do you think honestly just like this sounds really cheesy and probably stupid probably just like getting to hang out with everyone outside of work you know like that's the coolest part is when you get to see the people you've been acting with like as themselves and not improving us someone else and I don't know I had a lot of fun getting to know everyone and I do on all of my jobs and improving there's something you mentioned there and you've mentioned it earlier as well when you want Deadpool that there's a bit of improv there going on how much more freeing does that make your experience knowing that you can kind of just throw things into your performance that aren't there slow written on the page yeah it is a lot more free also was a lot more nerve-wracking because you can decide to say something that isn't funny and you've wasted to take worth however much money people are not afraid to remind you but you know it's it's fun especially when you get into the groove of it and you start to feed off of other people it's a good time and is there something in the first film that you improv that you there's still in the movie that you're particularly proud of you're old and amazingly your grandmother never picked up on it I know amazing it took one day she writes in a Christmas card in the bottom F you're old like damn she remembered it so if you've done a lot of genres as well now you've done horror you've done horror comedy yeah you've done comedy with that pool are there any genre that you love to do that you haven't had the opportunity yet to do actually that would be cool I think they're I think they're starting to think of making like a West Side Story live-action well this ends up on YouTube you never know yeah never know yeah that can happen so we've got a time for a couple more questions in the audience if you'd like to ask a question feel free to keep your hand up and I will come around to you and I start with this gentleman again here really wanting to do the musical could you give us a sample of your vocals Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved up it like me [Music] [Applause] amazing especially with jet lag as well that was awesome however you have a question from gentleman here how do you follow that basically so your character Verity in The Exorcist is are you looking to return in the future or is her story now over I don't know seeing as like the seasons went maybe they're planning on you know doing a whole new thing but I know they brought back like Casey brilliantly you know some crazy stuff went down so I don't know I would be down to come back though I had a fun time shooting that maybe not all the night shoots but yeah it was fun and I really loved my character that's it and have you found the challenge of kind of like switching to a more episodic format though because television is filmed in a lot different away than film I did not understand before how much hard work television actors put in but it is insane I mean I how Ben Daniels does that I have no idea she's amazing he's like one of the best people but I mean it's just like the difference it's just it's the more so the pace like on a film especially a film as big as Deadpool I mean we will spend two to four hours on one scene getting everything set up rehearsing everything two to four hours on one scene so we maybe do two three scenes a day on TV you spend 15 to 20 minutes rehearsing and getting everything set up and you try to smash through as many scenes as you can so it'll be more like six to eight scenes a day and it's yeah it's a lot more stressful than film I have so much respect for television actors it's a question is generally yeah thank you very much for the amazing rendition of Amazing Grace don't get to him that much that good so long I know you're jet-lagged but with the online news that there's been a lot of reshoots for Deadpool to have you been involved any or is it something that gone wrong during the test audience or that you guys had to redo or was it something different I think it's a common misconception to is that people think that reshoots are usually just to fix things that people didn't like a lot of the time reshoots are to add more of the things that people loved and just you know because people wash their film again and they're like oh I don't I could fix that you know but yeah I mean I I don't know how much I can say that usually films hate it when you talk about their reshoots solely because people think that it's because the film was bad for the test audience just means we're getting even better dead ball - yeah hi - the subject of TV shows over here we get a lot of American ones but I'm not too sure how many British ones you get over there so my question is do you have any British shows that you've seen and enjoyed I'm gonna be honest I've watched the British version of The Office so the original and I've watched skins a long time ago I really loved skins I I can't even think of another show off the top of my head that is pretty I don't know that we get a lot of them so weird you should write me a list or like tweet me a list of them because I'm so down to watch them but only the good ones obviously okay well we have time for at least a couple more questions and I can see a couple of hands so I'm going to start with these gentleman in the middle how was it working with Josh Brolin did you have any stories from working with him yeah it was really great josh is super sweet and just like really cute the first time I met him the first time I met him he was making a bitmoji of himself in the makeup trailer I was like what are you doing bro like it's you're a little old for that but he was he's really funny and great and I kind of wish I got to get to know him a little more I didn't really see him too often but when I did it was fun he's a great guy and so talented I just stared at him sometimes yeah we got one final question from this person here hi um so we all know that you're amazing as teenage negasonic teenage warhead yeah but my question is if you could act with any other Marvel character like who would you want to act with and why see this might this is probably biased because I've already worked with her but probably Alex because we have a good friendship and I think it would be fun to like be a superhero with her and her little like glue on hairs this is a hard question though because there are so many people like I feel stumped all right I was gonna ask you this question but it may stump you again but I'll try anyway if you could bring any project I've touched on the earlier question that the gentleman had about producing your own content is there a dream project that you would just love to do a while ago it's about a woman named Tanya a.b a.b a.b I she was the first American woman to sail around the world at the age of 18 and I think that would be a cool story to tell and I would like to tell that story I think that would be cool there's a very cool sounding film and it kind of I can unkind of get why there resonates with you as well because you know she challenged the world at such a young age and you did as well well ladies and gentlemen please join me in giving a brilliant run of Lois to the bernam brianna hildebrand and she will be signing a Hasani table and do photos with this weekend if you

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Keywords: Brianna Hildebrand, Deadpool, Deadpool 2, Tragedy Girls, Negasonic Teenage Warhead, X-Men, MCM Comic Con, MCM Birmingham Comic Con, Birmingham, ReedPop, Comic Con, The Exorcist, Amazing Grace, Live performance

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Length: 36min 32sec (2192 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 08 2018