America Ferrera thought it could get simpler every of the 3 times she has watched her new film The Lost Bus. As a substitute, she says, "it solely will get scarier."

The Paul Greengrass-directed film is the true story of college bus driver Kevin McKay (Matthew McConaughey) and Ferrera's instructor Mary Ludwig, who’re transporting 22 younger college students from one college to a different the day California's Camp Fireplace broke out on Nov. 8, 2018. However because it shortly unfold, fueled by sturdy winds, the bus and all of its occupants had been trapped, surrounded by flames — and impending doom.

"It’s a horror film. It's a monster film," the Barbie Oscar nominee says on the most recent episode of Leisure Weekly's The Awardist podcast. "We're operating from the monster of this hearth. And what Paul did that's so sensible and is really when my physique begins trembling at its core, is he provides the hearth a perspective. The fireplace is the monster, and when it begins to develop and you might be inside the hearth, — you are the hearth, rising with the hearth — it’s the most horrifying horror movie you would watch."

Ferrera says she has brazenly expressed curiosity in making an motion film with Greengrass, director of tense real-life sagas United 93, Inexperienced Zone, and Captain Phillips, "as a result of they’re so visceral and so edge-of-your-seat. However you by no means lose the characters; they really feel like actual individuals you're with."

Ferrera says it helped that she and Greengrass saved one another in test on placing a steadiness between Mary's function as " instructor and being soldier who's displaying up for obligation. None of that mattered until you noticed that there was an individual in there, an individual who was actually scared, and had loads at stake," she says, noting that Mary's additionally a mom who had no thought if her personal kids had made it to security. "Heroes don't simply present up with out concern. Significantly, not daily heroes. You present up with every thing it’s important to lose, and that's what makes you a hero."

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Take heed to Ferrera's full interview on The Awardist under, the place she reveals what made her most nervous about being in an motion film and why she "wanted mezcal to relax" on the finish of some days, what it was like working so shut to fireplace and getting behind the wheel of a bus, and extra. She additionally seems again on the Barbie phenomenon and what it was prefer to be a part of the advertising machine and press tour for that film, and she or he displays on her first film function, because the lead in Actual Ladies Have Curves.

Additionally on the podcast, EW. Sr. Author Joey Nolfi and Sr. Editor Joyce Eng focus on the Golden Globes' brief checklist of potential nominees within the new Greatest Podcast class, and we focus on what the response to Marty Supreme's shock world premiere on the New York Movie Pageant means for that film and star Timothée Chalemet's awards probabilities, and extra.

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