The Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves cast and Directors discuss playing a D&D Campaign together before starting to film the movie.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Cast Reveals They Played D&D Together
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is a love letter to the game. It is very much meant to represent the good times that are had by friends when they get together to play Dungeons & Dragons together. To prepare for this vibe, Directors John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein set up a D&D Campaign for the cast before they started filming.
Wizards of the Coast a Dungeon Master with a custom campaign where the actors would all play as their characters. Regé-Jean Page, who plays Xenk, reveals this in our exclusive interview with him, so of course we were sure to ask everyone from the movie that we spoke with about it.
Regé-Jean Page says they were in the hands of the best with the DM. The directors, since they don’t have characters in the film, chose to play as a two-headed cobra.
“You think of a wild idea and then Chris Pine sitting next to you, he picks it up, blows it up, takes it even further. Across the table, you got Michelle Rodriguez, she does something absolutely bonkers with it. And then Sofia Lillis turns into an eagle and tries to carry you across cabins. This is the energy of the movie. We learned how much of that we could do. How far we could push it, took that on set, and then we filmed it, and then we shared it with the world.”
Michelle Rodriguez, who plays Holga, explains that it was a great icebreaker for the cast to actually play the game. She says that Dungeons & Dragons is like a workout for the imagination. Chris Pine, who portrays Edgin, adds that it was a lot of fun to play with the rest of the cast. “I don’t really remember anything about the game itself. Other than the fun we had, we laughed a lot.” He goes on to say that really is the spirit of the film, and role playing games in general.
Justice Smith, who takes on the role of Simon, jokes that he doesn’t think they played it correctly, because they just shouted over each other for about an hour. “We all kept disagreeing about what our group should do in order to defeat the villains. And I think we killed an innocent person at one point.” Sophia Lillis, who is Doric in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, recalls that they absolutely did kill an innocent person. She laughs as she remembers not actually doing anything for a good long time. When the rest of the cast was battling a wizard, she was trapped in a room fighting little plant things.
When asked about the idea of setting the campaign up for the cast, Director John Francis Daley claims it was so they could become acclimated to the game of Dungeons & Dragons. “We also saw it as a great chance for them to explore each other’s relationships, in chemistry through gameplay.” He goes on to say that he would do it for any movie at this point because it’s such a great way to break the barriers in a really expedited fashion and get people talking to each other in ways they normally wouldn’t.
Full Interview with Regé-Jean Page
Be sure to check out the full interview with Regé-Jean Page, as well as our interviews with the rest of the cast, to learn more about Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. It hits theaters on March 31st.
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About Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves brings the rich world and playful spirit of the legendary roleplaying game to the big screen in a hilarious and action-packed adventure.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves hits theaters March 31st!
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