Now You See Me cast is back with new magic tricks and this time with a hint of Harry Potter charm to it.
Now You See Me 2 is back with new magic tricks and a hint of Harry Potter charm in its sequel.
The film released in the US on June 6, 2016, three years after the first film. Now You See Me 2 shows Four Horsemen magicians who use their illusions to stop a sinister tech tycoon and his unethical practices. The role of this villain is played by none other than Daniel Radcliffe.
The cast of the film includes Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Mark Ruffalo and Lizzy Caplan, who were put through a magic camp to learn the sleight of a hand and other tricks to perform on screen.
Here's what Mark Ruffalo had to say about doing Now You See Me 2 : ''I don't think any of us were planning to do a sequel. There was no talk of it. But when we reached the end of the first movie, we thought maybe it could spin off! None of us actually knew what it was going to be all about until we got the scripts in our hand. We were constantly working on the scripts even while the shoot was on."
He also speaks about how complex the art of magic really is: ''Magic is indeed a craft. Keith Barry was our head magician. You get to see how they do stuff, how much time goes into it and the kind of preparation and the tricks that look simple are actually quite difficult.''
Lizzy Caplan talks about being Lula and how magic impressed her : ''Lula is the new girl on the block. She enters the story being a huge fan of the Horsemen. And now she has the opportunity of joining these guys that she's fully obsessed with. She has to prove herself at first and is then accepted by them.''
On illusionists, she said: ''It is an interesting thing to fake being a magician as being a real magician of this calibre would take several years. I learnt a fair amount about the illusionists.''
Dave Franco talks about his character Jake and the world of illusionists: ''At the end of the first movie, my character has faked his own death. So as far as the world knows, Jake is dead. We pick up in the second movie where we are all in hiding and it's a year later and we are supposed to do our comeback performance, but I am not going to be on stage with everyone else because they think am dead. I am going to be used in a way where I can sneak around behind the scenes and manipulate people that way and during our comeback performance things go terribly wrong and we find out that someone is playing a big trick on us and throughout the movie we are trying to figure out who it is and how to regain control''.
Franco also says he has a lot of respect for magicians. ''Magicians have extremely great work ethics. Sometimes they take years to perfect one trick."
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