Actors often say that playing a villain is more fun than playing the hero, but it's not often that they get to test that theory out in the same movie. In Predator: Badlands, Elle Fanning gets the rare opportunity, as she brings both chatty, optimistic synth Thia and colder, company-loyal droid Tessa to life.
"I played Thia day-to-day on set. I was her most of the time, so then Tessa would dip in and out. It'd be like, 'Ooh, it's a Tessa day,' but I was more nervous to play Tessa," Fanning recalls to GamesRadar+. "Thia, I could fully understand; Tessa is a little more closed off with her emotions and more scientific and a little more, traditionally, robotic, just because of her history as opposed to her sister. We call them sisters but they've had a different journey, and that's why their personalities are so different."
