Allan gives her insight into Kingdom's core human and how Mae changed in small, but key ways during the film's ediitng process.
Each Planet of the Apes reboot has featured a central human in the conflict between the hyperintelligent apes and what remains of the human race. For the newly released Kingdom, our human proxy is Mae , played by The Witcher ’s Freya Allan . Though she initially seems like a regular feral human—who can’t speak, as previously seen in War for the Planet of the Apes—it turns out Mae ’s not what she seems: she’s intelligent and can talk like a modern person would, something Noa has never seen before.
“You think, ‘Oh my God, is she about to shoot him?’ And Mae is crying as she’s doing it, like, ‘Am I about to shoot him?’” Allan recalled. “And then she doesn’t. The minute he mentions Raka’s name, she puts the gun down.” It was changed in the editing to feel “more subtle,” a choice she advocated for since it makes for a murkier dynamic in future films. “Mae was going there to kill because he scares her,” she continued. “His intelligence scares her.
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