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. Not exactly a masterpiece, but its very few up points did keep me interested enough to hold out for the sequel, Spirit of Vengeance, which supposedly comes out on the 17th of February 2012, starring another favourite of mine, Cirian Hines.Yeah, it was my idea, because it didn't make sense that I would play in another Marvel film as a different character completely. And Wes Bentley (P2, Jonah Hex) as Blackheart was, at the very least a "cool" character to bring to the film. Though much of the film was quite weak, watching the demons (trenchcoat wearin' mo-fo's above) getting taken out one by one, somewhat akin to, oh, as for example a comic book, was entertaining enough to hold my attention. What's supposed to be The Devil's Bounty Hunter, riding the world to bring the guilty to justice, ends up being more of a Mad Max wannabe riding a badass motorbike notching up his cliche-meter and pouring the CG-budget down the drain, while bringing as many motifs up as he can. Too dark and long to be considered a silly, fun, little guilty pleasure, but too self-concious and non-sensical to be realistic. I think another major problem is that it aims for 'quirk" and ends up with "cheese". Don't get me wrong, I know I bitch about "effects-driven" a lot, but sometimes it works fine, it's just that Ghost Rider has absolutely no staying power, there's really nothing to it that would make me recommend it to a friend. Ghost Rider strikes me as the sort of comic that didn't need a whole lot of chopping to translate well to the big screen, unfortunately, director Mark Steven Johnson neglected all that, and went for a full on self-made, effects-drive flop. Choc full of wannabe Western-isms and expected cheese, Ghost Rider is a foray into not-a-whole-lot.
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