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In ‘Tron: Legacy’ Olivia Wilde stars as ‘Quorra,’ the fearless woman who helps Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) find his way through the film’s computerized world. Check out what Wilde had to say about the film below. Prepare to be dazzled December 17th!

This film is the most amount of action you’ve done in your career, how was that?

Olivia Wilde: Yeah, it’s the most action I have ever done in my life! I haven’t moved like that before, but I enjoyed it, it was great. I was honoured that the filmmakers had the faith in me that I could pull everything off to be Quorra.

I had the benefit of training with an amazing team of stunt guys from AD 7/11, who train all the best fighters for movies, that gave me confidence. I had great fun turning myself into a warrior. It was a fun transformative process…..I think I’m hooked now!

You have an incredible run of movies coming up, you must have been working like crazy? Are you excited to have  such a high profile come 2011?

Olivia Wilde: I feel very lucky. I think Tron Legacy kick started something for me. Again I’m just happy that these guys had faith in me and gave me the opportunity to play Quorra. I think it changed things for me, ever since Tron things have accelerated for me. I’m really excited to show the world what I’ve been working on and Tron signifies a change in gear for me.

How rare is it to find a character like Quorra to play in a film, she’s not overly sexualized. And how much of her changed while you were discussing her?

Olivia Wilde: Yeah, I credit Joe for collaborating with me to create Quorra in that way. I think a lot of other film makers would’ve encouraged the female character to be overly sexualized and be defined by that. In a world as sexy as Tron it certainly would have fit in. But Joe and I worked together to make Quorra something more interesting. It’s rare for an actress to find a film maker that will work with you to discover that interesting character beyond the physical. We had a lot of fun finding that for Quorra. She was inspired by Joan of Arc and lots of other interesting sources.

She did change because there was a moment when we discovered that we really liked her nerdy laugh, which is really my nerdy laugh which I usually keep hidden from camera (laugh). Then it came out and we decided it fit for Quorra, Joe encouraged me to go with that, to allow her to be the nerd that she really is. I think that’s really different from the beginning where I was focusing on her warrior instincts and wanting her to be very very intelligent and I found a lot of her playfulness as we went along. The emphasis on  set was of the characters and story, so I was really able to sit and think about that and encouraged to do so, I feel lucky it is very rare.

What was it like wearing the outfits? They looked stunning, but they couldn’t have been that cosy.

Olivia Wilde: It was challenging, but if I was playing a knight I’d expect chain mail to be challenging too. It was a part of the plan. It was quite an honour to wear these suits because nothing like them had been made before, they were latex with foam and lamps running through them and wires running down our bodies and battery packs. We were like little energizer bunnies and we could be turned on via remote control. It was amazing. No shortage of ‘turn on jokes’ (laughs). They weren’t cosy, but I didn’t expect them to be cosy. I remember when I first put on my suit and they turned me on and it was amazing!