Zooey Deschanel Talks Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Zooey Deschanel, who plays Trillian in the film adaptation of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, has recently wrapped filming. “It was great,” Deschanel said. “It was so much fun to make that movie. We had these seven foot tall alien Vogon puppets. They built four different alien planets, the Heart of Gold set, like the most amazing sets and all the actors were great. I’m making up my own system to control the ship and everything. It was really fun.”

Perhaps she’s already told us too much, as even her wardrobe from the film was kept secret. “I’m not sure if I’m supposed to be talking about it because they were very protective. We had to wear robes if we were ever out in public. We shot in the Freemason’s Hall at one point and we had to like cover up. But I have like a one piece suit. I have a couple different costumes but the main one is this sort of aqua one piece suit, sort of like a karate one piece. It’s really cool.”

Where most film adaptations condense the books, this one will actually expand it. “Pretty much everything from the book is included. There’s an added character. Most everything that was changed was Douglas Adams’ idea to begin with. It was in his hard drive. With each incarnation of that story, there were changes made. Between the radio series and the book and the TV series, there were a lot of different things.”

No future installments of the six part “trilogy” are planned, but the cast is signed to return. “I think they’re going to see how the first one does to see if they want to actually do the rest. But yeah, we all [signed] sequel parts of the contract.”

A veteran of smaller budget character based movies, Deschanel appreciated the perks of big budget studio filmmaking. “It was different. We had a lot more time and it was a different type of comedy for sure from Eulogy. And the character [in Eulogy] is very different from Trillian, who’s like a genius. It was fun to play that.”