Lynn Collins stars as Princess Dejah Thoris in John Carter, an epic adventure based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs story A Princess of Mars.  This year is the 100th anniversary of the John Carter character, who’s played in the film by Taylor Kitsch.

Collins, whose previous films include X-Men Origins: Wolverine (which also starred Kitsch) and The Merchant of Venice, talked about the challenges of creating her character amidst an epic production.

“There’s always that feeling of how can I make this as big as possible for the people who are going to see it,” said Collins.  “And I would lift it up to the universe, to God, the higher self, whatever you want to call it, and I would say, ‘let me channel this archetypal force’ and then I’d do a take.  And then I just kept doing that because honestly I didn’t know how to do this.  This was so big.  So I just kept letting the universe do it.”

Collins explains why Dejah Thoris is more than just a pretty face:

John Carter, directed by Wall-E filmmaker Andrew Stanton, opens nationwide March 9th.

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