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COLLIDER: You were at San Diego for Comic-Con, and now you’re here in Brazil for CCXP.
REGE-JEAN PAGE: Only the bit that I wrote in lipstick afterwards, hoping that no one would notice.
It’s [like a] crayon-punch in after-print, and no one noticed.
We still got to go here.
JUSTICE SMITH: I mean, I come from theater.
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Have you done theater before?
So it’s pretty commonplace in this field to be in front of large groups of people.
So I don’t necessarily get nervous.
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PAGE: Oh, I’ve got the complete opposite.
[There are] rules to the game.
When it’s being me, and particularly like us being us, it’s just a chaos field.
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And the chaos field makes me very nervous.
SMITH: I love them so much.Game Nightis incredible.
Because when I read the script, I didn’t really know much about Dungeons & Dragons.
They were like, “The movie’s not cynical.
It actually is earnest.”
Well, what’s super rare about them is that they are super smart.
They are incredibly funny.
And I think that we’re all super lucky to be in those hands in that respect.
I’ve heard there [are] multiple dragons in the movie.
I’m assuming that you do fight a dragon.
What is it like filming fighting a dragon?
Because to me, that’s like the five-year-old dream come true.
SMITH: What is it like fighting a dragon?
Well, okay, I’m trying not to give anything away.
PAGE: Flappy things, lizardy, but in the air.
SMITH: No, I know what a dragon is.
PAGE: So you’re not giving it away.
PAGE: Well, I mean, I think we got at least one in the trailer.
If I’m right.
Is that our large red friend?
PAGE: Better be, otherwise, that was awful.
So subtle, Rege.
Fighting dragons is fun, is the bottom line of that one.
PAGE: Half the time the creatures in front of you are giving scary good performances.
That’s not happening."
But it’s a lot easier than you’d think, and at least twice as much fun.
PAGE: You tried to teach me some of your spells.
I found that super hard.
SMITH: Oh, yes.
And I know a bit of sign language, so I attempt to incorporate that [into] it.
Not for every gesture.
PAGE: Take that, Dr.
He’s actually spelling words.
I was like, “I want everything to be unique and creative.”
So, remembering which spoken word of the spell goes with which gesture, and at what time.
I guess it wasn’t difficult.
That was just fun, but I think Rege found it difficult to learn that.
PAGE: No, I mean, I was impressed with the choreography of it.
And you did get that one.
PAGE: This was the Actors Studio with Justice Smith, by the way.
SMITH: Hell yeah.
PAGE: Like fantasy Actors Studio.
Everything needs to be something, and there’s a depth to all the magical spells.
It was very funny and was distractingly funny on set.
We have to cut away."
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thievespremieres March 31, 2023.
For more exclusives from the movie, check out Collider’s interview with the cast from San Diego Comic-Con.
