Sharlto Copley Talks ’Chappie’, Making His Motion Capture Suit Gangster and More

We’ve already seen him play a bureaucrat-turned-Prawn in District 9 and a vicious mercenary in Elysium, but Sharlto Copley’s third collaboration with Neill Blomkamp marks his most drastic transformation yet. Copley leads Chappie as the title character, the world’s very first robot who can think and feel for himself. His maker, Deon (Dev Patel), has the best intentions, but when Chappie winds up in the hands of a group of thugs, they corrupt his impressionable mind and childlike wonder by teaching him to “ke