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Alice Eve Interview: Warning

Warning star Alice Eve talks about technology, how the movie is eerily close to our current reality, and the terrifying loneliness of her character.

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Warning is a sci-fi film set in the not-too-distant future and Alice Eve stars as Claire in one of the film’s many vignette-like stories. Claire is obsessed with an Alexa-esque machine called God who connects her to religion. God keeps an eye on Claire by counting how many times she sins a day, making sure she prays, and holding her accountable for her wrongdoings.

Screen Rant spoke to Alice Eve about how Warning is eerily close to our current reality, all of the other scary situations in the movie, and the star chart of her character, Claire.

Screen Rant: What intrigued you the most about the script and prompted you to sign on for Warning?

Alice Eve: I liked the idea of this woman, Claire, who lives in her own little world, and doesn’t interact with another human. You know, it’s not often in a movie that a character doesn’t have another person to do scenes with – if they’re maybe on a road trip on their own – but there are not many opportunities for it. So, I really enjoyed that aspect of it. Agata [Alexander, director of Warning] also added to this enthusiasm. And her vision is quite out there and quite bold for a first-time filmmaker, and I just respected her tenacity and her boldness to get that movie made.

There was so much going on – there were horror elements, sci-fi elements. And I feel like much of it riffs on what’s currently going on in society. So I can’t imagine that it was super difficult to get into the necessary mindset to play the character of Claire. How did you prepare for the role?

Alice Eve: I imagined her life, I imagined her story. We like to call these things sci-fi or dystopian futures. But to me, I did a Black Mirror [episode] where we rated people and then you had a better life, depending on your rating. I don’t feel like that’s too, too far. I think that’s pretty much found us in many ways as a way of keeping each other in check.

And I found this one, again, to be very close to what is potentially true. I mean, today, for example, I have spent most of the day talking to people on a computer. And, you know, it’s a life that is ultimately isolated. And so the idea of loneliness and isolation, is is something I wanted to explore. And I imagined what this girl was struggling with internally.

I think what was so interesting about Claire’s specific plot in this movie was the marriage of technology and spirituality. And I thought that was really sort of prescient in terms of where we’re going as a society. Did your own perspective on spirituality play a part in how you approached Claire?

Alice Eve: Yes, I mean, my spirituality, my journey with spirituality, was a huge part of my life. I was born into a Catholic family, and I’ve had many relationships with that. I believe everyone is a spiritual being. And I believe it’s the most important part of us.

So I found it to be disturbing that this girl had given her power over to this Alexa 2.0 thing that was going to be her spiritual guide. And, to me, that was the great “warning” in the piece, which is to maintain your autonomy or spiritual autonomy. With the kind of demise of religion in the West, the great boon has been that we can follow our own guide and we learn our own intuition and our own moral compass. And I thought that, you know, lose that at your peril. But beware, don’t do that. You keep working on yourself, even though it’s hard.

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I think Claire’s isolation, as you mentioned, is one of the most interesting parts of her character. You did say that you came up with a backstory for her, can you kind of tease that?

Alice Eve: I imagined that she had her heart broken. And as we all do, when we have our hearts really broken, we want to retreat and curl up, and not see any more people because it’s like a tender wound is being like touched. Usually, back in the 90s or before you know, you have your heart broken, you may retreat and then the world kind of reels you back in and you heal because the heart heals.

But this is like something was able to hook on to [Claire] and trap her in a moment in time is this AI, this tech where she didn’t have to continue to personally develop and she became reliant on something else. To me, it’s not too different [from] substance abuse really because it sort of halts progression and development. It’s like you outsource it and so she kind of got stuck in a moment. And I imagine that that was from heartbreak.

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Claire’s story could happen – it definitely feels real. Did that make it more terrifying to you?

Alice Eve: Good because I find it crazy after the Black Mirror [episode] that people were like, “Can you imagine this ever happening?” And I was like, “What do you mean? Can you imagine this ever happening? It’s happened, you’re late to the party.”

It’s terrifying the amount that I check my phone. It’s terrifying that every morning I have to be like, “Don’t check your phone.” And I have to spend the time remembering my dreams, checking in with myself and, the level of self-policing you have to do to continually separate from technology is – it’s exhausting. It’s much easier to give up coffee – one day you miss it and then after that, you forget about coffee, you know, it’s gone. So yeah, I’m terrified.

I actually really loved that episode of Black Mirror that you’re in, “Nosedive,” and I was wondering if that role or any of your other roles kind of influenced how you played Claire and if you can talk about that process a little bit.

Alice Eve: I spend a lot of time on my phone reading about astrology and I’m an Aquarius and Aquarius are very out there – eccentric and kooky and I don’t feel like I’ve ever played an Aquarius. I feel like certainly, the girl in Black Mirror is definitely like a Taurus or maybe a Scorpio but mostly earth sign, like into material stuff. And this girl I really enjoyed because she’s kind of completely out there and has pink hair and doesn’t care what other people think and maybe isn’t accepted by everyone.

So no, I didn’t really reference anyone I played. It was more like a Helena Bonham Carter type character for me and I admire her so much and she’s so eccentric, and it was that kind of person that I held inside when I played her.

Claire seems kind of hesitant to accept this God AI figure into her life. Why do you think that she became so entrenched in this sort of major Apple-esque, Amazon company? How do you think she sort of latched on it?

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Alice Eve: A combination of laziness and loneliness. I think she’s lonely. And to become un-lonely is sometimes really hard. You have to go and sit in a coffee shop and be like, “Hi,” and take a risk and talk to a stranger on the street. So then she became lazy around interaction and relied on this thing that was easier even though it was irritating to her. It was easier to rely on that because it was there.

I think that’s why Warning is so relevant because we’re all becoming so reliant on our phones – we’re doing this through the computer. But the last thing we see Claire do is she throws God out of the window essentially, which was one of the funnier moments of the movie honestly. And it was, for the most part, not a funny movie. If the world hadn’t ended, what do you think would have been next for Claire?

Alice Eve: She would have reintegrated she was really the spiritual journey. She’s like, “I’m going to try praying,” and then someone on the phone doesn’t help her. Then she would have begun to like heal. I mean, I would love to throw my phone out of the window. I hate my iPhone and I can’t wait for the day when we all stop as a culture to simplify our relationship. I hope we do. Maybe we won’t. But she’s bold and she’s brave in that moment and she’s a hero in that moment actually.

I wanted to ask about more of the movie itself. There are some terrifying situations. Not even just Claire’s, but there’s Thomas Jane’s character floating through space the entire time. You have Annabel Wallis and Alex Pettyfer’s plot where her boyfriend’s memory is erased. You have the VR stalker, which was also terrifying. Which one was like the scariest to you specifically besides Claire’s?

Alice Eve: I definitely think watching the world explode and being the last man alive. Even though Will Smith made it look totally fine in I Am Legend I definitely think being the last woman alive would be a very overwhelming experience.

The VR stalker as well is very scary. AI turning on you and using its power and its knowledge against you. I had an Alexa for six months when I was living in New York, it was in the place I was renting. And I told it to shut up talking to me, and then at 2 am one night it woke up and it said, “If you don’t learn emotional device language, you will never find happiness.” And I’m like, “Oh my God, this is like an aggressive manipulative monster.” And I would never have it again, although I’m sure the iPhone listens to what you’re saying. Because the advertisements you get after you say the word futon – it’s ridiculous.

Did you guys all film separately? Was it a solitary experience?

Alice Eve: Yeah. I was in my hotel room and then I had jet lag. So I was walking around Poland. Very on my own. I didn’t interact with anyone except the crew.

I bet that helped you get more into the mindset of Claire.

Alice Eve: Yeah, totally. I mean, I was very much in the mindset of Claire. It wasn’t a hard place to get. It’s definitely not a reach for us.

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