Ever since Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, zombies have become synonymous with lifeless, dead-eyed beings, a void – existential nothingness in its simplest form. Zombies, as characterized, exhibit no human emotion, feeling, remembrance – and it’s been that way through Dawn of the Dead (1978) to Dawn of the Dead (2004) to The Walking Dead (2013). This Friday’s release Warm Bodies attempts to redefine the zombie not as death incarnate but merely as a lost and lonely soul… Sure the zombies still want to eat human brains but it has less to do with hunger than a need to connect. It should come as no surprise that the cure for all that brain munching, lethargic walking and indecipherable growling – as posed in Warm Bodies – is quite simple: love.Nick Hoult stars in the picture as R, a zombie who slowly comes back to life after he falls in love with the beautiful ex-girlfriend (Teresa Palmer) of the guy he’s just eaten. Complications obviously then ensue. In the following interview with Hoult, he discusses imbuing the living dead with personality, transitioning from being a child actor (he was the titular boy in About A Boy), and his bevy of future film projects (Jack The Giant Slayer, Mad Max: Fury Road and X Men: Days of Future Past). For the full interview, hit the jump.For more on Warm Bodies, here are three clips and thirteen minutes of behind-the-scenes-footage.Nicholas Hoult:

  • What is it like trying to give emotion to a zombie
  • Was it more liberating or challenging acting without dialogue
  • Talks about acting with the voice over
  • Did he create a back story for his character
  • Has he seen a rough cut of Jack the Giant Slayer yet
  • Any added pressure headlining a big budget film
  • What was it like working for George Miller on Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Talks about the X-Men: First Class sequel
  • How has it been transitioning from being a child actor

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