Anna Walton Talks Hellboy II

04 December 2008

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Anna Walton is a rising British actress who has found major success this year with her role as Princess Nualla in Hellboy: The Golden Army, the second outing for superhero Hellboy.

She is currently filming NBC's Crusoe and I caught up with her to talk to her about her blockbuster role and what lies ahead.

In Hellboy II: The Golden Army you star in the role as Princess Nualla can you tell me a bit about your character?

Well she is a princess and her main purpose in the film is her father has created a truce with mankind and it becomes her job to maintain that truce, where her brother is determined to break it as he believes that mankind has abused it and he wants to take revenge.

He wants to use the crown to wake up the Golden Army and use that as his weapon and she has to stop him from doing that, but it’s difficult for her as he is her brother and they love each other and they are almost really the same person, but she absolutely knows what her purpose is and she won’t let anything get in the way of that and, unfortunately not even her brother.

What was it about the character and the script that drew you to the project?

I think that I really connected with the fact that she believed very strongly, it’s a difficult one as she is a much better person than I could ever hope to be (laughs), but I believed in what she was trying to do which was to honour her father and honour the truce and her feeling was what we are given, the beauty of this planet, what we are given is well actually that’s interesting because that is more what her brother thinks and his outlook that human kind were abusing the country. So it was kind of like a mixture of the two of them that I related too, Prince Nuada as well strangely enough.

You are a new character in the film what was it like stepping onto a set with a group of actors who all know each other?

Yeah it was obviously a little bit daunting at first but everyone was very friendly and Guillermo was very friendly and it was a fun process. My make up took quite a long time to get right, which was a bit daunting, Guillermo has to have everything absolutely, and quite rightly so, 100% perfect and so I had seven or eight make up tests and that was I suppose a little bit disappointing because every time you wanted it to work and you wanted him to be happy with it so it took quite a while but in the end it worked and he was definitely happy. But a part from that it was a really fun experience.

Well that sort of leads me into my next question Princess Nualla is thousands of years old what was the make- up process like for you?

The process took about four hours and it was using spray paint and painting on the lines and I had contact lenses and a wig it was a fun process in the end, when we had it all right, because it was a real transformation and it allowed you to make that change in your character at the beginning of everyday.