REMINISCENCE : Promotion and Release (SPOILER ALERT)

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Why London for the premiere --


*Lisa Joy( English/Chinese) and husband Jonathan Nolan are currently residing in England

*Rebecca Ferguson ( English/Swedish) is also based in England

*Thandiwe Newton (English/Zimbabwean) is based in England

*Hugh Jackman ( dual citizen of Australia & UK, resident of USA) but currently filming in London.


Given the pandemic-era issues related to travel -- maybe this was the most practical way to hold a premiere?


And presumably, so as not to become a super-spreader event, it was not announced to the general public maybe to discourage the fans from rushing to where the premiere would be held?

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Jonathan Nolan is a producer ( Kilter Films) for the movie.

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http://instagram.com/p/CSePMhfHIgV

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From an interview --

Hugh Jackman was desperate to star in the “unique” ‘Reminiscence’.

The 52-year-old star plays Nick Bannister in the new sci-fi movie and was fascinated by how the movie “kept going all over the place”, even if he didn’t consider the motion picture to be “cool”.

Hugh told ComicBook.com: “I actually rang my agent 20 pages in saying, ‘I know this is not a very cool, like a poker movie to make, but I’m totally doing this movie.’

“I’d hear about, I’d seen some pictures. She’d told me through the world of the film, but not the whole story. And I thought the movie in the first 10, 15 pages was, I’d say it’s a genre film. I understand. I’m playing like a Sam Spade, Bogart-type character. Here we go.”

The ‘X-Men’ star continued: “And then I’m like, ‘Oh, hang on. Oh, oh, that’s cool. Oh no, it’s sci-fi. Oh, it’s a romance. No, it’s a thriller!’ And it kept going all over the place. And it’s just so unique and different. And I love that for audiences. And for me, it was a screaming ‘Yes’, an easy one.”

Hugh had to fight underwater in Lisa Joy’s movie and admits that he “learned a lot” from the challenging scenes.

‘The Greatest Showman’ actor shared: “There’s some really nice, long shots that she liked to do. Sort of ‘Old Boy’-style, long shots of action down the corridor. That’s hard. That took a lot of choreography and a lot of work.

“And then all the underwater stuff, the stuff I had never done before. I didn’t think, I can’t think of ever doing it before. But we were, we spent a week on the water doing long takes of being in pianos and chandeliers. It was a very sort of surreal thing. And I really learned a lot from that.”

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Would you want to use the REMINISCENCE machine yourself?

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No Hugh or Rebecca at LA premiere — but Lisa & Jonathan Nolan, Thandiwe , Jason Wu and many of the support cast!

Hugh’s presence via the huge film posters lining the walkway to entrance.

Also, since this was the famous Chinese Theatre - if the red carpet is uncovered, presumably one can find Hugh’s hand and shoe prints cast on cement ( Ava : Dad, how was it? How was the cement?!)

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I am back - courtesy of someone else's WIFI

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