Summary

• Twisters follows Kate Carter, Javi, and Tyler Owens in a high-stakes storm-chasing adventure in Oklahoma.
• Director Lee Isaac Chung aims to make tornadoes even more terrifying with a powerful cast in Twisters.
• Cast underwent intense training for authenticity, drawing from personal experiences with severe weather.

Twisters follows Kate Carter, a former storm chaser who now studies them from the safety of New York City after surviving a devastating tornado in college. Her friend Javi has a groundbreaking new technology, and he draws her back to the life of storm chasing to test it. While in Oklahoma, they cross paths with a storm-chasing social media superstar, Tyler Owens, who seeks out the most dangerous tornadoes he can find. The trio and their teams find themselves in the middle of multiple converging storm systems over central Oklahoma fighting for their lives.

rising star Glen Powell, Normal People's Daisy Edgar-Jones, and In The Heights' Anthony Ramos leading a powerhouse cast.

Screen Rant interviewed Powell, Edgar-Jones, and Ramos about their characters and relationships in Twisters. Edgar-Jones broke down the preparation process the cast went through to learn the science of storm chasing while Powell and Ramos shared how their own experiences with tornados and severe weather impacted their performances.

Daisy Edgar-Jones Went Through "Weather Bootcamp" To Understand The Science Behind Storm Chasing

Edgar-Jones broke down the training process the cast went through to prepare to play storm chasers. This included working with Kevin Keller and storm chaser consultants to understand the science as well as a "weather boot camp" at the National Weather Center.

Daisy Edgar-Jones: I think Kevin worked in the original as well. Kevin was so useful and actually we had a lot of storm chasers there to consult too. Being like, is this how you do it? Is this how you would describe these things? We went to a weather bootcamp. We met a bunch of meteorologists.

Glen Powell: National Weather Center.

Daisy Edgar-Jones: That was it. It was so important because as well as the stunts and the special effects, the actual hardest thing was just to look like you knew what you were talking about when it came to science jargon. But yeah, it's important that it felt authentic, and I think having them there really helped.

Glen Powell's Childhood Tornado Experience Impacted Scenes In Twisters

Powell has his own experience with a major tornado when he was growing up in Texas. He explained how they pulled from his memories of that event when filming certain scenes in Twisters including how he felt as a child in that moment and how the community came together in the aftermath.

Glen Powell: We talked about that in rehearsal early on. As a kid, things are sort of just impressionistic. You , I was with my Aunt Taffy and we had a car full of cousins, and I we were on the road to the family ranch, and you're aware that this thing is, you understand what's happening in the sky and you understand that there's danger. But the big thing that I took away, and one of the things I talked about was that as a kid, you sort of trust that adults protect you.

But when you look at an adult and they look scared and helpless, which is what happens when you're in the face of something where you're absolutely powerless, but you have a car full of kids. I just ed that feeling. So we just kind of took that idea in of the rodeo sequence, that story. But it's not like I was in any real danger. It's not like I was driving through an F5 tornado by any means.

The other thing that I really took away from that experience was that we cleaned up afterwards. The whole family went through that community and you just saw the devastation, but you also saw the humanity about how the community picks up after each other. I think that's something that at least is really just so infused with this movie, is how people rally in times of need. It is the greatest. These things are absolutely tragic, but you really see the best of humanity sometimes.

Anthony, you guys shot this in Oklahoma in tornado season. I read that you had your own experience. Can you talk about that a little bit?

Anthony Ramos: There was a tornado, I think, not too far from OKC that I think touched down, but there was some weather even before that. Then specifically in Oklahoma City, and I'm at dinner, I had just flown in that day. I was staying just for one night, and all of a sudden I'm at dinner with Isaac and the windows are rattling like this and making a noise.

I'm looking at the waiter like, "Yo, are we good?" I genuinely was like, "Yo, we fine or should we get up from here and go to our rooms and hide in the bathroom? Do y'all have a place for us to be?" The waiter's like, "Yeah, I mean, it happens all the time." And I'm like, "Alright, bet I'll get sparkling water then." I guess we chillin, whatever. You know what I'm saying?

But it was crazy. The double doors of the hotel were moving. It was raining super hard. And I was like, Alright, I mean, cool. I mean, the whole time we were shooting, it was just that. It wasn't like that every day, but we definitely had days where it is sunny and then all of a sudden you're like, How is the wind blowing so hard right now? We have to stop. We have to go take shelter. So yeah, super unpredictable. It was wild. It was a wild experience.

About Twisters

Kate Carter, a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi to test a groundbreaking new tracking system. There, she crosses paths with Tyler Owens, the charming and reckless social-media superstar who thrives on posting his storm-chasing adventures with his raucous crew, the more dangerous the better.

As storm season intensifies, terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed, and Kate, Tyler, Javi and their crews find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.

Check back for our other Twisters interviews:

• Brandon Perea & Sasha Lane
• Lee Isaac Chung

Twisters hits theaters July 19.

Source: Screen Rant Plus