Ivanna Sakhno stars in Blumhouse’s ‘M3GAN 2.0’.
Opening in theaters on June 27th is ‘M3GAN 2.0’, the sequel to Blumhouse horror flick ‘M3GAN’, which explores the darker side of AI and technology. Gerard Johnstone directs both films.
The movie stars Violet McGraw (‘The Life iof Chuck’) as Cady, Allison Williams (‘Get Out’) as Aunt Gemma, Amie Donald (‘Sweet Tooth’) as the body of M3GAN, Jenna Davis (‘Lisa Frankenstein’) as the voice of M3GAN, and Ivanna Sakhno (‘Ahsoka’) joins the cast as robot rival, AMELIA.
Moviefone recently had the pleasure of speaking with Ivanna Sakhno about joining the cast of ‘M3GAN 2.0’. She discusses learning the fight choreography, playing a robot, her reaction to the script, collaborating with Blumhouse, and discovering that she would be setting the tone for the movie in the opening sequence.
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(from left) M3gan and Amelia (Ivanna Sakhno) in ‘M3GAN 2.0’, directed by Gerard Johnstone. Photo: Universal Pictures.
Moviefone: To begin with, what was your reaction to discovering your scene was going to open the film?
Ivanna Sakhno: I’ll be honest. I found out when I first read the script and it was exciting. It was most exciting when I landed in New Zealand. The first week and a half, we had the chance to play around with physicality and start learning the stunts. And when I saw what the fight was, and when we were on the ground filming it, I just could tell that it was going to be quite a fun opening sequence. I was excited for it.
MF: Was it difficult learning all the fight choreography?
IS: It was really, really fun and also moving. You get to learn so much about your body and create a physicality of a being. You do so with some of the best professionals in the field. So I got to work with our amazing movement coach, Luke, who is so clocked in. He’s so on top of it and so open to different ideas and seeing how your brain works and how you’re connected to the body. He was immediately, he made me just walk a straight line and immediately was like, okay, so this, this, this, this, he just like read me. It was just really awesome to work with him.
Ivanna Sakhno as Amelia in ‘M3GAN 2.0’, directed by Gerard Johnstone. Photo: Universal Pictures.
MF: How would you describe AMELIA for those who know nothing about her?
IS: Amelia is seen as a threat to humanity, which she may be, I’m not gonna lie, but I have to stand up for her a little bit and say that she’s very much somebody who’s trying to understand her own upbringing and trying to deal with the world that is not necessarily open to having her existence be a part of their daily life, obviously for good reasons, but it’s not her fault at all. I think there’s quite a bit of amplitude to her being. In that darkness exists, I think, an immense amount of light and desire to belong and find compassion from others.
MF: Finally, without spoilers, can you talk about your reaction to the reading AMELIA’s story and the end of the movie?
IS: I think I will be honest, the reaction itself was just to the script. I didn’t expect to be so emotionally moved by it. There were moments when I found myself tearing up reading it. Discovering Amelia on the page just made me understand that I really immediately wanted to become part of it. I wanted to tell her story and obviously work with people like Allison and Gerard and Blumhouse, Atomic Monster. I was psyched when I finished reading the script. I just knew that it was going to be a special one. I do genuinely think it is a really fun film. And I hope the audience gets to enjoy it and see it, hopefully in theaters.
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After the underlying tech for M3GAN is stolen and misused by a powerful defense contractor to create a military-grade weapon known as Amelia, M3GAN’s creator Gemma… Read the Plot
What is the plot of ‘M3GAN 2.0’?
Two years after the robot M3GAN (Amie Donald) embarked on a murderous rampage before being destroyed, her tech has been stolen and misused by a powerful defense contractor to create a military-grade robot named AMELIA (Ivanna Sakhno), which becomes a threat to human existence. M3GAN’s creator Gemma (Allison Williams) is convinced by her niece Cady (Violet McGraw) that the only option is to resurrect M3GAN and give her a few upgrades so she can defeat AMELIA — or can she?
Who is in the cast of ‘M3GAN 2.0’?
- Allison Williams as Gemma
- Violet McGraw as Cady
- Amie Donald as M3GAN
- Jenna Davis as the voice of M3GAN
- Brian Jordan Alvarez as Cole
- Jen Van Epps as Tess
- Aristotle Athari as Christian
- Ivanna Sakhno as AMELIA
- Jemaine Clement as Alton Appleton
M3GAN in ‘M3GAN 2.0’, directed by Gerard Johnstone. Photo: Universal Pictures.