Sophia Lillis IS DORIC

† BY ALANA JOLI ABBOTT

Q:You play Doric, a tiefling druid. What can you tell us about her?

SOPHIA LILLIS: Out of the group, she’s kind of a straight man. Everyone else is a thief or an outlaw. She’s more lawful good. She’s the one keeping everything together instead of going out of control and spiraling and failing. She helps things move along if things get too crazy. It was actually a relief for me because all of the comedy aspects were left to the experts like Chris Pine, Regé-Jean Page, and Hugh Grant. My humor was very deadpan.

How did the party wrangle her in if she does not want to be involved with the chaos?

They had similar objectives. In order for her to do what she wants, she felt, “I suppose it’s necessary for me to help you guys on your journey because I want you to succeed and it doesn’t seem like you would without me.”

What kind of makeup process did you have to go through?

It did make my day start a little bit earlier. I wore a wig; underneath it was this contraption that went around my head that had two magnets toward the end. [There were] two holes in the wig that they’d plop little magnetic horns right on top. For the ears, it was just simple prosthetics. The only problem is, when I do stunt work, the horns do plop right off.

Doric turns into an owlbear—what was your part of that FX work?

Basically, I crouched down, I turned into an animal, and I was done for the day. I was happy with how it turned out. There was always that [question] in my mind: how would [the effects crew] do that realistically? Would my face elongate into something? They did a very, very, very good job.