Alison Lohman At ‘Beowulf’ Premiere

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By Kevin | November 6, 2007

The story’s been around for nearly 1,300 years and is familiar to almost anyone who had to read it in high school or college English class, but put “Beowulf” into the hands of Robert Zemeckis and it suddenly becomes “all kinds of strange,” Alison Lohman chuckled. “I didn’t know what I was getting into!”

“It’s kind of a foreign idea to most actors to put dots on your face and wear a bodysuit and pretend that you have a beautiful gown on,” she said of the motion-capture process, which uses the dots as reference points for animation. “I have many scenes with Robin Wright Penn. We’re in a black-box studio kind of sound stage, acting with real actors and real horses. But they all have dots on them! It’s kind of strange.”

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Here’s Alison Lohman at the Los Angeles premiere of Beowulf.