That’s down to what you are offered too, you can’t be too picky, but if I read a script that was very similar to what I’d already been a part of, I wouldn’t be able to do it.” “I always say I never really want to do the same thing. Wanda is very similar to roles I might’ve done in the past, a bit more ethereal Melanie is very mouthy, hasn’t got a lot of patience.
There’s a definite separation in their attitudes towards things. I just thought that this was something different - that I was playing two characters. Does she feel pressured by that? “There is always a pressure when you are the lead and carrying the film but I don’t think about that kind of thing. So Ronan, who’s about to turn 19, is playing not one lead role in this film, but two. The script really gets into the head of this alien creature who is very inexperienced with human emotions and interactions with people.” “It is her story, but what was the really exciting thing was that I was going to be playing two different characters, playing Wanda and Melanie. “When I read the script I was definitely drawn to Melanie, because I knew I’d be playing her,” says Ronan. That sounds pretty complicated, until you realise that Ronan plays both Melanie and Wanderer, and that she’s a character for whom having inner conflict is literally true: an internal struggle between the host’s suppressed personality and that of the Soul. Wanderer extracts information about other human holdouts from Melanie’s memory, but instead of luring Souls to find the humans, Melanie fights back, and, because of her strong will, Wanderer begins to identify with Melanie’s family and her boyfriend, played by Max Irons.
She survives, and a Soul named Wanderer (or Wanda) is implanted in her body. Ronan’s character Melanie is taken prisoner by a Seeker, whose job it is to provide human bodies to serve as hosts for new arrivals, Melanie is gravely injured trying to escape. On the face of it at least, The Host is essentially a love story. He’s smart, you knew he could handle something like this.” I’m a big fan of his stuff, like The Truman Show. “I was also intrigued to see who would be directing it, they hadn’t a director when I signed up. “What I found interesting was the concept: the idea that aliens could inhabit our planet to perfect it, to rid it of negativity, to make it nice to live in again,” she says.
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