The cast of "The Martian" had no clue how the movie would be tied together by Ridley Scott since they shot separately and in different locations, but when the actors finally saw the finished product, they cannot help but feel awed by the genius of what they helped create.
Chiwetel Ejiofor, who stars in the sci-fi film as Venkat Kapoor said that they shot the film in three sections, so he had no real connection to lead star Matt Damon (Mark Watney), who was doing "the spacecraft stuff."
"I was there for a bit...with Benedict (Cumberbatch) - so, we had an interesting time with the NASA stuff, but how to kind of fit that into everything there's no way I could," he said in an interview with Collider. "So I went away after filming in Budapest and they shot for another four months or something and went to Jordan and did a whole heap of stuff."
So when he got the chance to watch the movie in its entirety during a small screening in London, Ejiofor was simply blown away. "I was watching the movie, watching away, and suddenly it hits you about a little bit into the movie and you're like, 'This is a great movie!'" he laughingly shared, "and I was just taken with it."
Ejiofor said that director Scott is a creative genius and that is why the movie turned out the way it did.
"Well Ridley creates a very immersive world, so when you walk up to a Ridley Scott film set you're in Ridley Scott's imagination, and it's a really comfortable, cool place to be," he gushed. "It's a very dynamic place to be and an interesting place to be and a very thoughtful place to be, so I think all of the sets, everything around you when you're working on a movie with Ridley Scott is just incredibly well thought through."
Because of his working aesthetic, Ejiofor said that actors feel free to play, run free, and experiment with their craft without fearing failure. The actor added that Scott is very supportive of their ideas and creative urges as well, and it's something that he really appreciates.
With superb acting coupled with even better filmmaking, Ejiofor hopes that audiences will be taken with "The Martian" and other films they have in the works.
"I think the movies themselves have become so sophisticated, so good, that it's really carried this audience with it, it just has a much larger reach than before and I think that that's testament to some of the great work that's been done in that genre," he said.
