When Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Releases in theaters on March 31st, D&D fans and non-players alike are in for a wild ride. On this exciting adventure Chris PineEdgin Bard is assisted by a group of experienced cohorts, and among these fellow adventurers are Rare Jean Page (Bridgerton) like Zenk, a well-mannered paladin who may well be honored among thieves. During an interview with Collider’s Steve Weintraub, Page describes him as a “brilliant, noble hero” and tells us that the role was like “enjoying being Inigo Montoya”. He also discusses how important the overwhelmingly positive reaction to the SXSW world premiere was for the cast and crew, and reveals a few D&D inside jokes.
From writers and directors John Francis Daley And Jonathan Goldstein, Honor among thieves brings the world of D&D to life. Like so many other campaigns, the film centers on a particularly strange team of petty thieves who, after minor mistake that Maybe bear the destruction of the world, must go on a hero’s journey to correct their mistake. Honor among thieves also features Chris Pine like Bard Ejin, Michelle Rodriguez as Holga Barbara, Justice Smith like Simon Koldun, Sophia Lillis as Doric the Druid, and Hugh grant like Rogue’s Forge. To hear more from Page, check out the interview in the player above, or you can read the full conversation below.
COLLIDER: I want to start with a sincere “you’re good at this”.
REJEAN PAGE: Hey! I’ll take a sincere one of those.
I really enjoyed your work on this, but seriously, you’ve traveled the planet promoting this at various Comic-Cons. How happy are you that the movie is so great?
PAGE: [Laughs] I’m always as happy as the audience, Steven. This rule is. You can be as happy as the audience and the audience I was in [while] watch these films in awe. So I can be thrilled and I enjoy it.
Seriously, you never know what the movie will actually turn out to be.
PAGE: No, not at all.
So I’m sure you are very happy.
PAGE: We talked at Comic-Con and said it was like taking the movie home to meet his relatives. It’s like taking a movie home to meet your parents, because it’s the audience that cares about it. So when you get a reaction like that, it confirms everything. Since you spoke with John and Jonathan, they are very passionate about this film, they are players, and that’s why they bit their nails, and it’s so moving for me to see them so happy with how people perceive it, and so sincerely. I will answer you sincerely sincerely it actually makes us all incredibly happy that people love this movie because we worked so hard on it and we were scared because it’s hard to pull off and it’s great to see people get it.
I watched this trailer reaction video from these [Dungeon Masters] who watched it and took it apart and there were so many things they pointed out that I didn’t really realize because they are hardcore players. So there’s a lot in this movie that players will love, but even if you haven’t played the game, was there anything in the movie that you can’t wait for true Dungeons and Dragons fans to actually see?
PAGE: It’s hard to pinpoint specifics. I think we’re very, very proud of the two layers you’re talking about. It’s a bit like watching Rugrats same day as it is. There will always be cartoon jokes and then [there are] jokes you hear when you’re 20 years older and go, “Oh wow, that adult joke slipped through.” I think it’s very similar to D&D. I think [there are] D&D jokes are like baseball jokes.
Perhaps the best example is that scene in the bridge, which is an absolute inside joke for D&D players about your gremlin, the Dungeon Master, sitting at their little board and saying, “Ha ha ha. You set a trap, fools! But other than that, it’s just a visual joke for every audience in the theater, and I think these two-layer jokes do it for me. It’s the corpse scene, you know? This is another gremlin D&D moment.
You can kick a lot of ass in this movie and I’m curious what was your reaction when you read the script or when John and Jonathan told you what you were going to do? ‘Cause you’ll be that ass kicker.
PAGE: I think it takes a little reveling that you’re Inigo Montoya, you know? It’s like, I so much brilliant, chivalrous hero. Someone earlier in an interview pointed out that the first thing I do in a film is save a cat. I think they are perfectly aware that they wink at what kind of hero it is, and then immediately subvert it and play with this trope.
I think that’s what attracted me to this character. Because being a straight hero is one thing, but I think acting and interrogating who the characters really are is what’s really the heart of the movie, so I sort of let go of Agin and flew on my own two feet. feet, because if I did all the heroic work for him, there would be no heroic path for Ajin. There would be no development.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves will be released in theaters on March 31st. Watch our interview with Daly, Goldstein and producer Jeremy Latcham below.
Source: Collider
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