![]() ![]() There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. There's the argument that characters that are in big dumb films don't have to be big dumb characters. But it feels like you're finding a middle ground, doing work that's worthwhile. Being nominated twice was a good indication they liked my work.Ī lot of people look at comic book movies or giant monster movies and write that off as mindless entertainment. I was nominated the year before, and I didn't think I was going to win this time. ![]() Is it hard to get used to that competition element? It's always good to see Dominic, and the fact that we were in the same category was quite bizarre actually. When you and Dominic West saw each other at the Golden Globes the Internet went nuts. Once you win a Golden Globe, you can do whatever you want. Not romantic comedy, but I'd love to do that. I've played a really big drug dealer, a really big cop. When you look at my career and the roles I've played, there aren't a lot of repeats. But it does seem like you have more of that control now. When we write about actors, we talk about the directions actors take their careers. When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted- "I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!" I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. Is that acting opposite nothing a muscle you hadn't stretched before these giant productions? It's like being asked to act with a robot and say "OK, this is your robot"- if you're not there, why would I be there. There isn't that touch stonework for me in it, but there is a lot of action.Īround the time of Thor you talked about how hard it is to work with a green screen. The adrenaline feeling of jumping out of cliffs and bikes and all of that is very specific to the film. When you're doing Thor and this and Pacific Rim, all these big movies, does that adrenaline reaction change? A good example is Daniel Craig in James Bond, and I can tell he's fucking shitting himself, and so should he be, because he's jumping off a fucking cliff. But a skilled actor can use that to make the audience feel like that actor's going through it, that character's going through it. You cannot pretend that you don't have adrenaline going through you, because it feels like what it feels like. It's just an adrenaline fueled performance, and adrenaline fueled performances you never know where they'll end up. In that section, they did the stuntman with the real thing from the back, and I did it from the front and I jumped off some kind of catapult in the studio.ĭo you like the stunts? What does that get out of you as an actor that you don't get to do elsewhere? What's going through your mind is, "This is stupid, what if the harness snaps, you'll die, what would they say about you, but it will be cool if it hits the news and everyone says "Oh my god actor dies while doing a stunt," maybe you should pull a cooler face because it's your last moment." I didn't do the actual jump-īut there's a shot of you in midair, you must be on a harness somewhere. When you're flying off the back of a cliff shooting a gun, as you do in the beginning of this movie, what goes through your mind? When I say "Why?" and everyone goes "Because its' a superhero movie," I say, "Nah, I need more than that." In order to make this stuff make sense for you as an actor, it's better to delve in and create things. Are you looking into the comics, or just your character's end of things? It sounds like you dug deep into the Marvel Universe. I didn't want to do acting like this so the eyes became the solution. And the other thing is that Moreau in the script is described as someone who can see into someone's soul. ![]() So I said, how about this, we'll just make them related. Yeah, it was my idea, because it didn't make sense that I would play in another Marvel film as a different character completely. ![]()
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