Greenland 2 Migration, Morena Baccarin Interview

The Character of Allison
"Allison is... I guess much like myself, a no-BS-er. She really doesn't, you know, beat around the bush. She's somebody that's fiercely protective of her family and really very driven to be a good person and a good member of the community. And you know, she’s... we never really deal with what she does for a living in the first film. I always assumed that she was, you know, either a stay-at-home mom or a teacher or something that where she had a lot of time to be with her son, because I think that that was very much important to her, her family."

Character Relationship and Continuity
"What happens with Clark hitting and them having to go and fight for their family and their survival brings them closer together and they realize what's important in life. And where the film ends is they've survived, they're in this bunker. And where we pick up in Greenland 2, it's obviously been very difficult. It's five years of living underground and their relationship has grown, and you know, they're doing their best under the circumstances, but you can tell that there's a lot of love there."

Nathan as a Teenager
"So in this film, in Greenland 2, we have Roman who plays Nathan, and he's... it's really funny to just go from, like, you know, what we imagined the first one to be and then to suddenly have a teenager. So it's been like really fun to adjust the relationship and like sort of imagine and fill in the blanks of what's been happening the last five years with the family."

Growing up in a Bunker
"But I think we're dealing more actually with the reality of what it would have been like to be underground for five years, what it is to be a kid growing up where most of the memories and things that you remember from childhood is actually in a bunker underground, and the problems that come with that. And, you know, we had... have had this pandemic, right, to draw on. And I know that what's happened... what happened with my kids during that time and this... you know, the way that people emotionally develop differently under those circumstances. So we were trying to borrow from that for this film."

The Strength of Allison
"And I really loved how strong Allison was, how she wasn't a damsel in distress, that she was fighting for her family and her survival and her kids."

Universal Themes and Current Issues
"I think very interesting to see a very sort of quote-unquote normal family going through extraordinary circumstances in a way that a lot of people in the world go through and don't necessarily get highlighted. I think this film really illuminates the issues with what we're going... we are facing with global warming and immigration and starting over. And, you know, there's a lot of really interesting themes that I think are... are important and that audiences will connect with."

Working with Gerard Butler

"Gerry's really fun to work with. He's... he's putting in a lot of effort in this, man. I look at him and I'm like, I don't know how you keep this going. He's a really kind person and we had a great time in the first film. And it's funny how the relationship just kind of carried over after I saw him. I hadn't seen him in, I don't know, five years probably, four or five years, and he gave me this big bear hug, which is what he's really good at, and we just jumped right in and I felt like I'd been married to him during that whole time, which is a little scary, but mostly good."

Family Dynamics on Set
"And I think when you create characters together, you... you kind of get back into the routine of it. You know, it's sort of muscle memory a lot of times. We know who they are really well and who they are together and who they are as a family, and it just kind of flows from there."

Working with Director Ric Roman Waugh
"He's got to really keep track of the emotional arc of the story and be able to do these small intimate moments and adjust to that, and then also these big ginormous explosions and cars flipping and comets, you know, crashing across the sky. So it's really... it's great, and he's very open to... he trusts me, I feel like, with the emotional, you know, maintaining the emotional truth and... and what I think is authentic to the character. So it's a very... we have a very complementary relationship, I feel like."

The Intensity of the Journey
"I think after all the craziness and the running and the emotional roller coaster ride, like to... to play a scene where all of that is inside you but you're just speaking very simple words to each other, and all of the journey that you've been on together from the first film and the second film is with you, it was like one of my favorite moments to play."

The English Channel Scene
"We're in the English Channel that's been dried up and we've been traversing it and trying to get to France. But it's... there [are] these crevices that have opened up in the ground that are thousands of feet deep and we have to get across somehow. So people have created rope ladders and then a... there's like a little jutting... a jut island, and then metal ladders that have been strung together with rope that then takes us the rest of the journey. It's harrowing."

Action and Emotional Drama
"This film is very unique in the sense that it... it combines action with emotional drama. That's definitely something I haven't done a lot of. I did just shoot a very active and action-driven film last year that did have a very strong emotional connection as well to the story, so I... I do love these types of films because I think it gives you a little bit of everything, right? It gives you... you care about the characters, you care about the story, but then you're also really entertained by this massive... these massive happenings around them. But I've been lucky to be able to do all kinds of films and just, just before this film I shot a very small indie that was just all people sitting in a room talking to each other and that was really nice. But then coming to this, I was like, 'Okay, I'm gearing up, we're ready, let's do it.'"