Cara Delevigne mimicked animals over lunch to land role in Luc Besson's sci-fi

Suicide Squad star Cara Delevingne had to impress French moviemaker Luc Besson with animal impressions to land her role in Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets.

The model-turned-actress had no idea she would be auditioning for a movie role when Besson invited her to a lunch meeting, and it quickly turned into one of the strangest screen tests.

"I didn’t know we were meeting about this movie," she tells V magazine. "Even my agents didn’t know it was for this, and it was clear this was a top-secret project. I was just told, 'Luc wants to have brunch',’ and I said, ‘Great, let’s do it!’

"But when we met, he explained it (the film) all with such enthusiasm that it was clear he’d been trying to do this for so long and it was a passion project."

And then things started to get weird: "I had to prove myself, but not in a typical audition setting," she recalls with a smile. "Luc would say stuff like, 'Make up a story in your head and describe it to me using no real words, just physicality and random sounds you make up', or, 'Think of an animal and act it out and I have to guess what animal it is'."

Whatever she did, it worked - because she landed the role of Laureline, opposite Dane DeHaan, in the futuristic movie, which hits cinemas this summer (17).

And she admits she had a lot of fun working with the maverick moviemaker, especially when it came to doing her own stunts.

"When I hear that there’s an option that I can do it instead of a stunt person, I’m always like, 'Please let me do it! Throw me off the building, I like that!'"