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Jodie Comer has given insight into the struggles of her ‘confined’ 28 Years Later character in a new mini trailer with gruesome flashes of the film’s Infected.
The 32-year-old actress plays Isla, a mother who is trying to cope with an undiagnosed and debilitating illness during the unforgiving landscape of the highly anticipated sequel to classic 2002 British horror 28 Days Later.
In a clip shared exclusively with Metro, Comer teases a little more about how Isla fits into the narrative, which is also set in the same post-apocalyptic world as 2007 sequel 28 Weeks Later, but is not a direct follow-up.
‘Twenty-eight years ago, this infection infiltrated its way into these people’s lives,’ Comer explains on set, as we see graves and a wooden barricade on the beach while some Infected storm a house, attacking in a violent frenzy while their victims scream, with blood pouring from their eyes.
‘My character Isla lives in a small community, but she’s been confined to the walls of her home.
‘Her son Spike makes the choice to take her off the island onto the mainland, which is the most dangerous place, to find help,’ she adds.
Isla is shown lying in bed, disoriented and knocking over a glass as Spike, played by newcomer Alfie Williams, asks: ‘What’s really wrong with her?’
Throughout the promo clip there is also a terrifying glimpse at the pockmarked back of a stalking Infected – who now appear to crawl along the ground alongside their creepy, stilted run from the previous films.
Glowing eyes lurk in the dark of a red, night-vision shot, while Ralph Fiennes as another survivor, Dr Kelson, is seen in a graveyard of bones with Spike and Isla, who in another flash is briefly seen holding a baby.
However, Free Guy and The Bikeriders star Comer also insists that there’s ‘a real thread through it of humanity and emotion’ as she and her onscreen son fiercely embrace in a fiery inferno.
The latest clip still has more horrors in store though for fans thanks to a decomposing hand reaching out and the blistered and scarred yowling face of an Infected.
28 Years Later also stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Alfie’s father Jamie, as well as Jack O’Connell.
The movie, directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland, was shot back to back with its sequel, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, which has been helmed by Nia DaCosta and is scheduled for release early next year.
28 Years Later is out in UK cinemas on Thursday June 19.
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