To complete Dren’s look, the filmmakers employed a combination of practical and visual effects, starting with Oscar®-winning special effects designer Howard Berger (“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”), of KNB EFX Group, who oversaw the creature and practical makeup. We incorporated some Hong Kong-style wire work, which is basically acrobatic, with smaller, low-profile harnesses, to give her the ability to jump, perch like a bird, rotate and flip down quickly from a height.” Being a genetically altered human spliced with animal DNA, there are going to be some elements of quick and direct confrontation and extraordinary agility. The actress’ stunt work focused on what stunt coordinator Plato Fountidakis (“The Chronicles of Riddick”) describes as “heightening the abilities of her character. She can do and feel what she wants to.”Īcknowledging the character’s athleticism, speed and uncommon strength, Chaneac adds, “It took a great deal of concentration to play because of the extra physical demands.” This included making accommodation for triple-jointed legs, four-fingered hands and a tail. She’s quite sensitive and pure, like a child, yet very aggressive at the same time. “Dren wants to love and to be loved, but is kept at a distance because she is not normal. “For me, this is a love story,” she says. Without dialogue, Chaneac devised her own language of trills and purrs to express a wide range of emotion. Not only did she have a remarkable ability to play the character from adolescent to adult, and to communicate without words, she was also deceptively strong and performed most of her own stunts.” She was spectacular but she was the first, so we continued with other candidates, and she remained the gold standard that no others could match. Hoban recalls, “There was this beautiful woman standing on the sidewalk. As Natali and producer Hoban made their way up Charles de Gaulle Boulevard to the Gaumont offices to begin auditions, they saw her waiting. No animator could do what Delphine does.”Ĭhaneac was cast in Paris prior to her formal audition. Even though we did extensive R & D on the creature development, the concept is so subtle that I felt there was no way to complete Dren without a real actor. “I wanted a creature whose humanity we fall in love with.
But it’s Delphine Chaneac who makes her real.ĭren was never intended to be a fully digital character, Natali explains. In reality, she’s an artful blend of human and visual effects.
In the story, Dren is a hybrid of human and animal.
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