![]() "I've given up trying to predict the future of these movies," the actress said."But what I love is that, in the years since the last one, consistently, I've had strangers come up to me on the street or journalists ask, 'When are you going to make another one? When are you going to make another one?' She only hopes that she won't have to wait another nine years to do so. Stiles remains open to portraying Nicky Parsons in another sequel. "I mean, it was quite a feat to organise." But then you have to yell, 'Cut,' and get them all to calm down. "Fortunately we had a fantastic group of extras that were really excited to be there, and energetic," she said."So, imagine, you have 600 people that you're getting riled up to shout and throw rocks and throw tear gas, and there are riot cops in uniform. "It was really extensive," she continued."We had 600 extras, we were working nights, and for weeks they were having to shout and throw things, and they were shouting in Greek, though the extras mostly spoke Spanish." So for one scene, as we were shooting, it felt like you were in the middle of a riot. The way that Paul Greengrass shoots, he sets up his cameras so well. ![]() "But, of course, we couldn't shoot there," she said."So we were in Tenerife, in Spain. So it was modelled after the riots in Greece that have gone on very recently. "The movie starts out in Athens, Greece, because Nicky needs to find a safe place for them to meet up," Stiles said."And the safest place to do that is actually in the middle of a riot. She treasured every minute of it, she said. Thanks to her expanded role in the latest instalment, Stiles experienced more of those than ever before, including a wild motorcycle-chase scene and an elaborate riot sequence. Then there's the scope of the productions, and also the stunts. Travelling the world is part of the joy of making Bourne films. "He's incredibly hard-working," she said."I have a ton of respect for him. He has a bigger entourage and security guards, but he's still very, very helpful in scenes and doesn't seem to, at his core, have changed very much at all. "Since we started these films, Matt's career has exploded," Stiles said."His family's gotten bigger. He continues to impress her on and off the set, she said. Stiles and Damon have shared the screen four times in the past 15 years. "And so, before she goes to set off this ticking bomb, figuratively, she tracks him down because she cares about him," the actress said."She wants to tell him about his past, and hopes to help assuage his guilt." It was alluded to a little bit in Ultimatum, but, regardless of their past, she cares about him. "My role has grown," Stiles said."There's also the personal connection that she has to Jason Bourne. Returning director/co-writer Paul Greengrass who created the character of Nicky, who doesn't appear in the Robert Ludlum novels on which the film series is based ” assured her that she would, and he proved as good as his word. Stiles, an amiable interviewee speaking by telephone from Manhattan, stressed that it was important to her, if she were to sign on for Jason Bourne, that she be given more to do. ![]() "Nicky has uncovered very threatening information about Treadstone and the CIA, and she wants to expose that," Stiles added, referring to the black-ops programme that spawned Bourne, its last surviving member and greatest menace."As I said, she's gotten a lot more rebellious, which was fun and interesting to play." At the start of Jason Bourne she's been in hiding for eight years, and has become a little bit more of an anarchist and gotten involved in this white-hat-hacking world. The last time we saw her, in Ultimatum, she was put on a bus. "This time around, I was excited because it's the first time we see Nicky more rebellious and taking charge," the actress said."She's outside of Langley. This franchise has taken me to many parts of the world, and I had no idea I'd still be working 15 years later. ![]() "Oh, it's fantastic, this bonus time," said Stiles, now 35, during a recent conversation."I got really nostalgic on this last set, because I lucked out. They're back for a fourth go-round in Jason Bourne. Given a last-minute reprieve in The Bourne Identity, Stiles and Nicky returned in The Bourne Supremacy (2004) and then in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007). The actress first played Nicky Parsons in The Bourne Identity (2002), in which the character an ally of Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) and a potential romantic interest originally was supposed to die. Julia Stiles is Bourne again, and in more ways than one. ![]()
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