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Dane DeHaan: Yeah, I agree.
Does that help to set it up for audiences, especially if they havent read these comics?
To say like, Hey, this could happen.
Its just a matter of how much.
Theres no reason that Alpha couldnt exist, you know.
What was your take on it when you were approached about it by Luc?
Had you heard of comics at all?
No, I didnt know them at all.
I just kind of met with Luc and he talked to me about it.
I was just overwhelmed by the entire thing.
I mean, yeah, totally.
Peter Pan, whatever kind of the flavor of the week was.
Thats how I spent my time as a kid.
Well, I feel like its just always what Ive liked to spend my time doing.
I always wanted to go to school for it.
That was always really important to me.
Always a good incentive.
You know what I mean?
Cara spoke in a press conference today about your work ethic.
Is that something that you developed in school?
Yeah, for sure.
That in a lot of ways, thats my favorite part.
Thats why I do it, because I love the work so much.
Prepare for it physically.
Its kind of like what I like to call space bro mentality.
Did Luc send you a big box ofValeriancomics to read?
I got them myself.
I just bought them off Amazon and read them.
I think the script itself, in terms of plot and stuff, was already there.
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Its not every day that a guy gets a private dance from Rihanna.
I was really just kind of like sitting in a chair watching it happen.
It was fairly incredible.
It was definitely a pinch-me moment.
I think both Rihanna and Cara are two of the hardest working people I have ever come across.
Rihanna was on our set all day long doing her thing.
She was there, she was present.
She was really working around the clock.
She was just finishing up her album.
It hadnt come out yet.
Its like they work so hard.
Their dreams come true because they fight for them, and I think thats amazing.
Im a very singularly focused person.
I would love to.
Yeah, I really would.
But I would only do it because I want to do it.
I have no contractual obligation to do more.
This is the most fun Ive had making a movie.
If the world wants us to make another one, Id love to do that.
You were involved with another franchise a couple years ago, Spider-Man, and now theyve rebooted that again.
Any regrets or thought on the way thatThe Amazing Spider-Maniteration turned out?
I dont think I would be inValerianif I had to keep makingSpider-Manmovies.
I think it can be weird the way those things are handled professionally.
How impersonal it was towards the end was weird.
I really just look at it as a huge gift.
Do you think Harry Osborn would have gone full villain, or would he have been redeemed?
Did you get any inkling of where they might have taken that character?
I have no idea.
I think they wanted to do that Sinister Six thing or whatever, but yeah.
I never really talked to anybody about where they were going with it.
What do you have going on next?
I just had a daughter, so thats been my focus.
Ill go back to work when the time is right, but right now Im in full-time dad mode.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planetsopens this Friday (June 21).
