Gina Gershon about reunification with John Travolta, Face/Off -Plift, More

Gina Gershon had no hesitation reunification John Travolta For their new film High roles – Especially after the couple had such an incredible time to work together on the cult classic Face/out.

‘[John] was just as easy and professional and friendly and fun to work with as when I did it Face/out‘Gershon, 62, exclusively told Us weekly. ‘[But] I think in Face/out We sang a little more. We had more time during the preparation, so I really enjoyed it when we sing all the musicals … there was a lot of time to kill. “

Gershon portrayed Sasha John Woo’s 1997 SCI-Fi Flick, the ex-girlfriend of terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage). Although Gershon told us that much of her screen time was spent with Cage, 61, she still got to know Travolta behind the scenes – and their mutual love for music brought them closer together.

‘I just remember that I sang [with him]”Gershon remembered.” We were just crazy and then we started to reef and I thought: ‘Oh my God, I sing with John Travolta. This is heaven. ‘Do you know what I mean? It was really fun. “

Her role on the screen was of course just as satisfying. Gershon noted that she ‘loved’ from working with WOO because he was open to hear her ideas, which ultimately felt the experience more ‘collaborative’.

“My part was not really what it turned out to be, and I kept adding things here and there with the writer’s permission,” she explained. “I said,” Guys, can I just throw away some things? And I would go [and] work [it] A bit, and I would show it to John and he would like it, or he didn’t like a few ideas, but at least I felt comfortable enough to throw it away, and he would say yes or no. So it felt very collaborative. “

With all the good memories of the cast and crew, she would return for one Face/out follow-up? Paramount finally gained earlier Adam Wingard To direct a follow -up film in 2022. The answer is a thunderous “yes” by Gershon, even though her character is apparently killed in the last moments of the OG film.

I mean, we see her kind of killing, [but if] She did not die in a wonderful way, I would love it. I would participate, are you joking? “She told us.” John Woo, one of my favorite directors to work with, Nic and John and Joan [Allen] And again everyone? In two seconds. “

Outside the Face/out Universe, Gershon still has to reunite with Woo – but she and Cage have collaborated again for 2017 unthinkable. Now she and Travolta are back together for High Rollers, a sequel to 2024s Cash.

“My manager, who is actually John’s manager, she told me …” I talked to John about you and John loves you, “Gershon remembered how the project came about.” He would love to do this [movie with him]. … we hadn’t seen each other for a long time, and it felt like we were old friends. “

Gershon portrays Travolta’s wife, Ameila, in the film, a former FBI informant that is abducted and used as a lever in a casino robbery with high deployment. In the meantime, Travolta repeats his role as Mason Goddard, a master thief on a mission to save the love of his life. Although divorced from Mason and the rest of his crew for the most part of the film, Amelia is a key figure in the story – and a character that enabled Gershon to dive into her love for stunt work.

“I love to do as many stunts as possible as I can, just because I enjoy the physicality,” said Gershon Us. “I probably always want to do a lot more stunts than they actually leave me, and I am always like:” No, no, really, I’m really good at this. Let me. ” I have to convince them to be in the middle of the entire chaos.

Gershon’s love for life on the edge certainly translates into the characters she plays on the screen, because the actress is known for her representation of ‘Strong Women’. Although Gershon is proud of that fact, she would be interested in exploring a new facet of her typical archetype.

“I would like to play a completely fragile, gentle person trying to survive,” she said Us. “I think I like to play more survivors more than victims, just because I don’t like that. I mean, [my High Rollers] character, [Amelia]She was strong in the beginning. She has trained and that has been her job, but … it would be nice to play someone who is really not strong in the same way, but they still have to survive and they do. “

High roles Plays now in theaters, on request and digital.

With reporting by Mariel Turner