Ant-Man's Kathryn Newton Couldn’t Keep Up With Paul Rudd On Quantumania: "He's An Animal!"

Elder British I love tea when I'm in

America I don't use milk but here I use

the milk because I want to fit in with

the Brits I would give it like a solid

seven out ten that's really weak almost

as weak as that taste yeah it's not

really strong

well babe Ant-Man and The Wasp that's

good Mania let's take it back to the

beginning of this whole process for you

where were you at in your life when this

roll came along that's a really good

question nobody's asked me that babes

well part-taking questions we covered it

all already it's a really good question

because it was not the perfect place I

had a show called The Society on Netflix

and we were going in a week I was

leaving my bags were being packed I had

my apartment and Netflix canceled it

because of covid and because of the

society I had lost two other films and a

series so I was like great I got no jobs

now they took the movies away because I

wasn't available because of the society

now the society's gone I've got nothing

and then the next Monday I got the offer

for this is so weird it was so strange

it was like one door closes and another

one opens and if I hadn't have had the

society cancel I probably wouldn't have

been able to do this it was a huge deal

to have a show on Netflix and you know

it did really well so that was number

one priority I wouldn't have been able

to do anything else while filming that

or you got to leave time when you're

doing a big project like that for over

like longer shoots and

I don't know it was just weird how that

went away and then Ant-Man appeared it's

the universe you got to stay positive

yeah because I didn't get sad when that

happened I was upset for the fans I was

upset for my cast you know it's all of

us young people like a lot of people

relied on that job and they were

expecting it I was expecting it so it's

just like a a shocking thing that

happens but I was like for something

this weird to happen to me and to all of

us there's got to be a reason and

everyone on that show has done

phenomenally well ever since the show

being canceled like it did a lot for us

I think it got it got us a lot of

popularity

um you know at a young age it's really

hard to get a fandom to get people

behind you who want to see your projects

and support you and I don't take that

for granted I got that on a show called

Supernatural I did one episode on the

show right and the fans loved my

character so much and wrote about her on

Twitter that the CW wanted to give me my

own show a spin-off and we shot like a

pilot episode for it and it aired with

Supernatural and it was great it um

didn't work whatever it didn't happen

but the fans have stayed with me and

then they went to society and then now I

got new fans from society all over the

world and it happened for the whole cast

like I don't know we got lucky kind of

that you know we get to try other things

but I do wish that we could tell the

Finish like finish the story do you kind

of feel like that was the moment that

made you really realize how empowering a

moment of failure can be yes absolutely

I think um

you have a choice you can get really

negative and go dark and I don't know if

Ant-Man would have showed up for me

because maybe the universe would think

oh she's not ready if this is how she's

going to handle rejection or failure how

she's going to handle success you know

what I mean but I really just like

looked up at the sky and I was like okay

I'm ready for something else now

um thank you for this I'm done with it I

guess yeah and you just have to let it

go you have to let things go nothing is

permanent anyways even Ant-Man doing

this one movie I have no expectations

you know what I mean I enjoyed the

moment of making this movie more than

anything because I knew what a big deal

it was I knew what a big opportunity it

was for someone my age to

not only do a Marvel movie but work with

Paul Rudd every day get to use my body

and my physicality for a character in a

certain way and

um you didn't want to waste any time

being stressed out or like tired or

hungry or any of these things I was just

in the moment the whole time it's funny

like watching a movie is Never As Good

as your experience making it is it my

project every project

I mean I didn't watch big little lies

I'm sure that's better than my

experience it's really good okay I can

tell you as an audience member top

drawer good you just don't have HBO I

didn't have HBO I have it now now the

moment's passed and I haven't ever

watched it but I feel like you need to

go back and watch this yeah no like

cancel whatever interview is doing for

the rest and go watch Big Little Lives

please go watch big little lies back to

back maybe I should you mention like how

physically and mentally tough filming a

movie like this is yeah watch it kind of

teach you about your own mental and

physical strength you gotta have stamina

you really got to know your body really

well

um because you got to be able to push it

when you need to push it and you got to

know when to like take a nap you know

and you got to eat all day and eat

peanut butter and apples all day so you

like keep your

um energy up but I

I've been like training for a role like

this my whole life I'm an athlete I'm a

golfer people don't think that's

athletic but you don't know you don't

know

it's athletic and then um I just wanted

to find a character to serve fully and

Cassie Lang deserves someone who was

able to run around flip people punch

people slide on the ground do stuff like

that and not get hurt that's the main

thing when you're on a six-month shoot

nobody wants you to get hurt you know

you can't help it accidents happen right

but because I have trained so much my

whole life just like some people do

ballet I do ballet some people do karate

I don't do karate but like it's just

something I love it's like a hobby I

guess so I was ready to really give it

all I got and I just was trying to keep

up with Paul Rudd that guy he's an

animal he acts like he's just this every

man no he's exceptional exceptional he

worked out in the morning then we ran

around for 10 hours and then he'd work

out again

yeah he's got the time of the day well I

don't know how he had that time like it

was a really crazy intense schedule for

him and me so I did I didn't do that so

I am an advocate for exercise I think

it's good for your mental health it's

not about it's not about looking good

and it wasn't about looking good for

this our director was very serious about

not wanting me to change my body like he

was like you need to look like you you

need to look like a kid like you don't

need to look ripped

um it was never about that it was about

learning how to fall learning how to

take a punch learning how to you know

falling not get hurt that's what we were

doing in this movie my character is not

Janet Van Dyne like have you seen the

movie yeah I've seen them so you know

Michelle Pfeiffer is incredibly badass

in this movie Her fight scenes are

ridiculous so that's not Cassie no you

saw me I was tripping like falling like

not really having my back stumbling

around right it's very hard to not have

balance okay it's really hard to act

like you don't have balance and then

actually have balance so that you can

just do it for the camera way more

difficult than looking cool I love that

has it giving you a better relationship

with your own body

oh yeah oh yeah mean nothing gives you