{"id":747724,"date":"2026-09-22T01:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T22:00:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-09-22T01:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T22:00:51","slug":"resident-evil-star-austin-abrams-breaks-down-the-risky-and-gutsy-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/resident-evil-star-austin-abrams-breaks-down-the-risky-and-gutsy-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Resident Evil\u2019 Star Austin Abrams Breaks Down the \u201cRisky and Gutsy\u201d Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>[This story contains major spoilers for Zach Cregger\u2018s <em>Resident Evil<\/em>.]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAustin Abrams and Zach Cregger keep knocking them dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn 2023, the actor stuck with the writer-director after he lost his initial <em>Weapons<\/em> cast amid strike-related scheduling chaos. Abrams had attractive opportunities he could have pursued, but he wanted to work with the filmmaker who famously cut, out of nowhere, to Justin Long singing his way down PCH to kick off the second act of <em>Barbarian<\/em> (2022), the horror film that launched Cregger\u2019s ascent toward becoming the top genre filmmaker working today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThat instinct to see <em>Weapons<\/em> through paid off handsomely. Abrams delivered a standout performance as an unhoused junkie thief in the critical and commercial hit that would go on to win an Oscar (Amy Madigan as best supporting actress). Cregger then cast him as the lead of his <em>Resident Evil <\/em>reboot, which has now scored the franchise\u2019s best reviews and highest-grossing opening weekend, taking in $60 million across its first three days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIf Cregger is the belle of the ball right now, then Abrams is the belle of the fall, with his survival thriller <em>Whalefall<\/em> \u2014 directed by Cregger collaborator and fellow genre specialist Brian Duffield \u2014 arriving Oct. 16. Between a courier caught in the middle of a zombie virus outbreak and a scuba diver swallowed whole by a sperm whale, both films put Abrams\u2019 respective lead characters, Bryan and Jay, through uniquely harrowing one-man crucibles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHaving acted since he was 13, the 30-year-old Abrams is at a loss for words when describing what it means to lead back-to-back major studio <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>. He\u2019s equally reluctant to say which role put him through the wringer more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cHonestly, in certain ways, they\u2019re one and the same. <em>Resident Evil<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly had more laughs, just based on the nature of the comedy involved, so that helped lighten the load,\u201d Abrams tells <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>. \u201cBut I feel bad singling either one out as being harder to work on. They were both really challenging.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t(<em>Spoilers ahead<\/em>.) Cregger\u2019s <em>Resident Evil<\/em> opens with Abrams\u2019 medical courier juggling an organ delivery and a serious conversation with his girlfriend, Michelle, about her newly discovered pregnancy. He insists he\u2019ll be home in 20 minutes so they can talk face to face, only to dodge the conversation by accepting a last-minute, faraway job that takes him to Raccoon City General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhile en route, Bryan and Michelle continue their phone call, but he doesn\u2019t offer the most supportive response. Instead, he argues that they should preserve their current status quo. In other words, he\u2019s afraid of the changes that come with growing up and becoming a father. Unsatisfied, Michelle tells him she\u2019s going to stay with a friend and give him some time to reflect on the error of his ways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tTheir talk is then interrupted by a bad signal and a woman in the road whom Bryan\u2019s vehicle strikes. He helps the bloodied victim into his car, but a cop quickly pulls him over and takes responsibility for her. The officer\u2019s SUV then flips over in front of Bryan, slowly confirming what viewers have likely already suspected about the sundress-wearing pedestrian. She is actually infected, and Bryan has become caught up in the franchise\u2019s inciting t-virus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAfter trying to offer aid to the now-deceased cop, Bryan uses the officer\u2019s gun to shoot the rabid sundress woman and an infected guard dog at a nearby farm. He then makes his way inside the farmhouse to refuel, reload and call Michelle from the farmer\u2019s landline now that he\u2019s in jeopardy. When a concerned Michelle returns the call, he\u2019s unable to answer because he just killed the infected farmer and blew the head clean off the reanimated pedestrian woman, who is widely believed to be the farmer\u2019s wife. In a key moment, he witnesses their bodies fuse into one monstrous form that is unrelenting in its pursuit of him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBryan continues his journey on foot, making his way into a neighboring tunnel filled with abandoned vehicles. An RV blocks his path, so he climbs inside to make his way out through the back. There, he discovers a little girl and tries to help her, unaware that she\u2019s already on the verge of transforming into a zombie. As her condition worsens, she turns on Bryan and sinks her teeth into his arm, forcing him to put her down. He soon crosses paths with two members of the Umbrella Corporation, who explain that a lab leak caused the outbreak. They also disclose that Bryan was tasked with delivering the \u201cneutralizing base\u201d to Umbrella scientists at Raccoon City General to complete an antidote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAfter going through a series of even crazier near-death experiences, Bryan eventually arrives at the hospital, where he takes a moment in the parking garage to assess his rapidly spreading infection. Sensing he\u2019s not going to make it, he tries to call Michelle once more, but is again greeted with no cell phone service. Thus, he records an audio message in which he expresses regret over his earlier response to the pregnancy <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> and that he\u2019d love nothing more than to start a family together. He caps the recording in the most heart-wrenching way possible by saying, \u201cI think you\u2019d be an amazing mom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBryan goes through even more insane scenarios before finally making it to the facility\u2019s lab on the 28th floor. He delivers the key ingredient for the cure in the nick of time, but the bumbling Umbrella scientists fumble the ball on the one-yard line. They can\u2019t finish the concoction before Bryan loses himself to the infection, and he ends up killing them one by one, becoming his own version of the amalgamation monster that has been stalking him since its inception at the farmhouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe movie closes with the realization that we\u2019ve been watching an origin story for a <em>Resident Evil<\/em> monster, one that <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>rs typically mow down without a second thought to who they were before the outbreak. Thematically, Cregger reinforces the idea that change comes for us all, whether we\u2019re ready for it or not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI thought it was crazy and shocking when I first read it. You follow this one guy the whole time, so hopefully you\u2019re enjoying watching him and rooting for him,\u201d Abrams says. \u201cThen to have him not make it is really risky and gutsy, which is what I love about all of Zach\u2019s work. So I was surprised by it, but I also loved that he would take that chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn this age of unremitting test screenings and CinemaScore, downer endings typically score lower, so Abrams <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>reciates that Cregger and Sony weren\u2019t afraid to figuratively twist the knife in the audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cWith a lot of movies nowadays, they\u2019re a little too afraid to do something like that \u2014 to kill off a character you really like. And if they do, the blow is softened in some way so it doesn\u2019t hurt too much,\u201d Abrams says. \u201cWhereas a lot of older films don\u2019t do that; they just rip your heart out. So I\u2019m just appreciative that Zach is willing to take a risk like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIf you\u2019re like me, then you might have expected the aforementioned cushion to be a final reveal in which Michelle receives Bryan\u2019s voice memo. Perhaps an unseen moment gave him a bar of service and a long enough opportunity to press send. That potential concluding beat would\u2019ve offered the viewer the comfort of knowing that this now-single mother at least knows Bryan really did love her and the idea of starting a family together. Alas, Bryan not only becomes a monster, but Michelle\u2019s last memory of him is his rather monstrous response to the prospect of having a child together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cThat\u2019s part of the tragedy of it all. It\u2019s so damn sad when you really think about it. She thinks he doesn\u2019t want to have this baby, when he actually does. He realizes, \u2018No, I love her. Having a kid isn\u2019t as scary as I thought, and I want to do it with her,\u2019\u201d Abrams says. \u201cSo the fact that she\u2019ll never know that is pretty damn tragic. He changed and got better, but no one will ever know about it. There\u2019s something really beautiful and tragic about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBelow, during a spoiler conversation with <em>THR<\/em>, Abrams also discusses the 150-pound blood bag that nearly crushed him during his sprint through snowy Raccoon City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>***<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Congrats on the fall of Austin Abrams. The season, not the collapse.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t(<em>Laughs<\/em>.) Thanks, pal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>I watched your <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/h6H3yIThujU?si=YBxyURofzbYXgujC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>A24 Podcast<\/strong><\/a><strong> episode with Skyler Gisondo, and you talked about how, growing up, he and Tye Sheridan were your boogeymen at auditions. Well, now that you have two huge studio movies coming out within a month of each other, do you feel like the new boogeyman?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tI definitely don\u2019t feel that way. As you get older, you realize that boogeymen don\u2019t really exist in that context. Maybe I\u2019ve got a little bit more of a shot now, but those guys are still such great actors. Have you seen <em>Primetime<\/em> yet?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Not yet, unfortunately.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSee fucking Skyler in <em>Primetime<\/em>, and then tell me what you think about that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Mythological framing aside, you\u2019ve been working for more than half your life, and now you\u2019re atop the call sheet. Do you consider this is a new beginning for you as a leading man?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIt\u2019s definitely different than it was before, but I don\u2019t feel differently inside. I still feel like I\u2019m trying to push myself and make new things. It\u2019s not some ego <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> or something like that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>I last talked to you toward the tail end of <em>Whalefall<\/em> photography, so did you basically fly straight to Prague after that wrapped?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIt was a really quick turnaround. We extended the <em>Whalefall<\/em> shoots a little bit, so the window for a break became non-existent. I got out to Prague earlier than I thought to do prep, so it was a very short window.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1296px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((730\/1296)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FRM_4510_f0961_sRGB-H-2026.jpg?w=1296\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"730\" width=\"1296\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Austin Abrams stars as Bryan in Zach Cregger\u2019s <em>Resident Evil<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Courtesy of Sony Pictures<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>When<\/strong> <strong>Zach Cregger and I spoke, he was very interested in the answer to this question. Between him and Brian Duffield, whose movie made you suffer the most?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t(<em>Abrams<\/em> <em>laughs and squirms in his seat.<\/em>) Oh, man. Honestly, in certain ways, they\u2019re one and the same. With <em>Whalefall<\/em>, I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve ever worn a wetsuit all day long, but the incessant tightening on your skin is somewhat uncomfortable. With <em>Resident Evil<\/em>, the amount of running, mixed with the exactness needed to get the shot right, and nightshoots \u2014 makes it a hard competition. They\u2019re both also filled with a lot of joy. <em>Resident Evil<\/em> generally had more laughs, just based on the nature of the comedy involved, so that helped lighten the load. But I feel bad singling either one out as being harder to work on. They were both really challenging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Zach and I also talked about the 150-pound blood bag that nearly crushed you during the \u201cjumper street\u201d sequence. Were you pretty rattled at the time?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tI kind of didn\u2019t notice. It just happened, and then it was done. Personally, I wanted it to be close because that\u2019s better for what we\u2019re trying to make. There were a lot of other takes where it wasn\u2019t as close, or it happened too soon and you didn\u2019t even see it. It wasn\u2019t until doing press that I was like, \u201cWhoa, was it <em>that<\/em> close? I didn\u2019t realize that.\u201d At the time, you\u2019re just in it. So I\u2019m stoked that it looks close. If anything, I\u2019m excited by it. But I didn\u2019t really feel rattled at the time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1296px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((730\/1296)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MCDREEV_SP017.jpg?w=1296\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"730\" width=\"1296\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">This is the sequence in Zach Cregger\u2019s <em>Resident Evil<\/em> where Abrams, as Bryan, narrowly avoided a falling blood bag on set.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Courtesy of Everett Collection<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>I really love your choice to give your medical courier character, Bryan, a feminine scream at times because he generally reacts the way 99 percent of us would in a zombie apocalypse. It\u2019s such a departure from the traditional action hero, who\u2019s expected to not only stay cool under pressure but also look cool while doing it. So was it liberating to not have to be concerned with vanity?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDefinitely. I wanted to look like the antithesis of the \u201ccool action hero\u201d as much as I possibly could because that feels the most interesting. I haven\u2019t seen it done as much. <em>Shaun of the Dead<\/em> lives in that realm as well. There\u2019s a joy in being able to see this guy react naturally to all this crazy shit, and it\u2019s just really interesting to watch. I always thought, <em>How would this dude actually react to this?<\/em> I just wanted it to feel really real-world. Whereas, if you have someone more experienced, it\u2019s going to be a little less interesting to watch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOne of the parts I really enjoyed is earlier on with the dog. How do you even process a moment like that? What would you think that is? There was a period of time when I was like,<em> Is this an alien?<\/em> <em>Does he think that these are aliens<\/em>? That would probably confuse or frustrate audiences if my character was thinking it was aliens [because many of them already know what it is from the games]. But thinking about what it could be was a fun rabbit hole to go down while playing it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>In the \u201990s, politicians began blaming video games like <\/strong><strong><em>Mortal Kombat<\/em><\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong><em>Doom<\/em><\/strong><strong> for real-world violence, and shooter games have remained a recurring scapegoat ever since. But I wonder if Zach is making a counterargument with this movie. Near the end, when Bryan successfully fires his last bullet, he screams, \u201cVideo games!\u201d as a way of crediting them for his survival to that point. Do you see that moment as a suggestion that generations of people have actually learned problem-solving, survival skills and vigilance from playing these games?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMaybe, yeah. Growing up, the general vibe in the air, at least from parents, is you\u2019re wasting your time playing video games. So to have the character triumphantly proclaim how much video games have helped him in that make-or-break moment is pretty funny. You\u2019d have to ask Zach if he\u2019s trying to say something deeper there, but it\u2019s a funny little thing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1296px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((730\/1296)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/DF-07602_r-H-2026.jpg?w=1296\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"730\" width=\"1296\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Austin Abrams as Bryan in Zach Cregger\u2019s <em>Resident Evil.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Du\u0161an Martin\u010dek\/Sony Pictures<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Zach told me that he cut out as many jokes as possible because test audiences deemed the movie to be \u201ctoo funny.\u201d The movie is still a riot, but were you bummed to see any of those other comedic moments go?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThere were a lot of [deleted] moments that cracked us up. There were also a lot of moments that we never filmed. We were like, \u201cThis is the <em>SNL<\/em> version of this movie. We can\u2019t film that. That\u2019s too ridiculous.\u201d I don\u2019t know if I can remember any of those scenarios off the top of my head, but there were moments. They weren\u2019t jokes that I could tell you right now and you\u2019d think they were funny. They were more situational.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>The emotional message Bryan records for Michelle is your finest work in the film, and if that monologue wasn\u2019t challenging enough, you then had to go straight into this deliberately embarrassing cry so that Cregger\u2019s voice on the intercom could sell the situational humor. Was that dynamic shift difficult to pull off?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNot really. Zach and I both understood the needle we were trying to thread there. I also knew the edit would help with the comedic shift. When Zach goes out into the wide shot, that helps with the transition into the comedic aspect. So it didn\u2019t feel too intimidating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>As far as Michelle goes, Zach\u2019s wife, Sara Paxton, voiced the characte<\/strong>r. <strong>But I heard you suggested the photo to be used for her on Bryan\u2019s iPhone. Is it safe to ask who that is?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tShe\u2019s a friend. We wanted a photo of me and her to represent Bryan and Michelle more tangibly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>The partial look at someone in a red shirt is you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tYeah, that\u2019s me and my friend in the original photo. But then, on the day, someone cropped the photo on the phone to be just her. So the original plan went out the window.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1296px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((730\/1296)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/BRN_0925_f1016_sRGB-H-2026.jpg?w=1296\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"730\" width=\"1296\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Austin Abrams stars as Bryan in Zach Cregger\u2019s <em>Resident Evil<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Courtesy of Sony Pictures<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>I was not expecting the ending to go that way.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhat were you thinking?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>I figured Bryan wouldn\u2019t make it out alive, but at the very least, I thought the lab would have some kind of cell signal booster so he could text his voice message to Michelle. If nothing else, I wanted her to know that the father of her baby was truly a good man. Anyway, what was your first reaction when you read that Bryan wouldn\u2019t be cured and would instead become his own amalgamation of bodies?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tI\u2019ve been living with it for a while now, but I thought it was crazy and shocking when I first read it. I love that Zach takes those risks. You follow this one guy the whole time, so hopefully you\u2019re enjoying watching him and rooting for him. Then to have him not make it is really risky and gutsy, which is what I love about all of Zach\u2019s work. So I was surprised by it, but I also loved that he would take that chance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWith a lot of movies nowadays, they\u2019re a little too afraid to do something like that \u2014 to kill off a character you really like. And if they do, the blow is softened in some way so it doesn\u2019t hurt too much. Whereas a lot of older films don\u2019t do that; they just rip your heart out. We\u2019re here to feel, man. We\u2019re here to go through something. So I\u2019m just appreciative that Zach is willing to take a risk like that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>You used the phrase \u201csoften the blow,\u201d and that\u2019s precisely what I was anticipating. I thought the movie would cut from Bryan\u2019s snowball of body parts to Michelle\u2019s phone, and she\u2019d receive his voice message before the credits rolled. Do you remember if you expected some kind of button involving Michelle?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tI don\u2019t remember if I did, but who knows? Maybe he sent his voice memo while going up the staircase, and it\u2019s just something we didn\u2019t get to see.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>One of my colleagues saw the ending as a kind of karmic consequence for Bryan not initially supporting his pregnant girlfriend. But along the way, he helps the sundress woman he hit with his car, rushes to aid the cop, tries to save the little girl in the RV and honors his commitment to get the package to Raccoon City General. So I see it less as Bryan deserving his fate and more as a reminder that a zombie outbreak is indiscriminate. How do you see it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tI wouldn\u2019t say he deserved his fate, especially when you see him turn it around toward the end. That\u2019s part of the tragedy of it all. It\u2019s so damn sad when you really think about it. He leaves this voice note for his girlfriend, and maybe they\u2019ll find his phone and somehow get it to her. But she thinks he doesn\u2019t want to have this baby, when he actually does. He realizes, \u201cNo, I love her. Having a kid isn\u2019t as scary as I thought, and I want to do it with her.\u201d So the fact that she\u2019ll never know that is pretty damn tragic. He changed and got better, but no one will ever know about it. There\u2019s something really beautiful and tragic about that.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1296px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((730\/1296)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/DF-09925-H-2026.jpg?w=1296\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"730\" width=\"1296\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Austin Abrams, Andrea Miltnerova and Johnno Wilson in Zach Cregger\u2019s <em>Resident Evil<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Du\u0161an Martin\u010dek\/Sony Pictures<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>In <\/strong><strong><em>Weapons<\/em><\/strong><strong>, Alden Ehrenreich\u2019s character told James to get out of town, and bad things happened when he didn\u2019t listen. In <\/strong><strong><em>Gangster Squad<\/em><\/strong><strong>, Ryan Gosling told your shoeshiner to go home, and bad things happened when he didn\u2019t listen. In <\/strong><strong><em>Resident<\/em><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong><em>Evil<\/em><\/strong><strong>, Michelle told Bryan to come home, and bad things happened when he didn\u2019t listen. Nobody in <\/strong><strong><em>The Line<\/em><\/strong><strong> listened, and bad things happened to your fraternity pledge. Your characters need to start listening, don\u2019t they?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t(<em>Laughs<\/em>.) Yeah, you\u2019re right. They\u2019ve got a little bit too much lint in their ears. But if they listened, these movies would be a lot less interesting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong><em>Touch\u00e9<\/em><\/strong><strong>. Just out of curiosity, have you read Zach\u2019s script called <\/strong><strong><em>The Flood<\/em><\/strong><strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNo, I\u2019m staying away from it because I want to be able to watch it without knowing anything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>From <\/strong><strong><em>Wolfs<\/em><\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong><em>Weapons<\/em><\/strong><strong> to <\/strong><strong><em>Whalefall<\/em><\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong><em>Resident Evil<\/em><\/strong><strong>, you\u2019ve spent the last few years running for your life on screen. Looking ahead, have you asked your agent to find you something calm, soothing and relaxing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t(<em>Laughs<\/em>.) Yeah, I need a movie that\u2019s like a lullaby \u2014 where the heart of it rocks you to sleep. Can we make a movie like that? But it all depends. A lot of it comes down to the filmmaker and what ends up coming my way. So I don\u2019t want to talk too much about what might be next, but we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t***<br \/>Resident Evil <em>is now playing in movie theaters nationwide<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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