He’s not some superhero, I think joking aside, he is very sensitive. Saying, “Yes, I wish I could do that.”ĭo you think that’s why your character in Taken, and in Taken 2 to a certain extent, is shown as almost invulnerable? I mean, he towers physically over everyone else in the film? I think that gave people a real guilty pleasure. He’s going to do something about it himself. And everyone felt vulnerable and scared and nervous.Īnd when you feel that, you seek entertainment, and I think when you see films like The Expendables – which didn’t come out then, but there was Taken and I’m sure a couple of others – it’s about someone who’s not going to call on a figure of authority when he’s in trouble. Our elected leaders, the so-called pillars of society, the bankers and managers, were fucking shafting us. I have a theory, too, certainly with the first Taken, when it came out in 2009, the world was turned upside down financially – we were in a crisis. Merciless good guy, righteousness, that kind of thing. Nostalgia, isn’t it, partially? Because I think Taken harks back to those 80s proper action movies. You explain to me – what is the success of The Expendables, for example? What is it?
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Now you’re getting a bit older, and films like The Expendables have been a success, and Taken was really successful, do you think men are peaking at an older age now? Is 60 the new 20? He’s a guy who could walk down the street and you wouldn’t pick him out in the crowd, you know? The stuff he gets up to is breathtaking. He’s bandaged here or he’s bandaged there, but he can’t talk about what he’s done, other than give you a broad, broad outline.
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And he can never talk about what he does, but he goes in, and comes out four days later, and he’ll call me and say, “Hi, fancy a drink?” There was a guy who was my mentor, who trained me on a film a few years ago, in weapons, and he’s a special operatives soldier actively going into Afghanistan at various times. He’s a very sensitive, caring and intelligent guy. Do you think, if you met him, would you go for a drink with him down the pub?Ībsolutely. They really hyped it.īryan, your character in the film, he’s quite a brutal guy. It’s finished, you know? But Fox Studios in America took it in January 2009 and did this phenomenal PR job, where they showed little 30-second teaser trailers at these big sporting events – Super Bowl and big basketball events, and baseball events – and it came out, and it had this extraordinary success. It’s not super stuff, it’s ugly and tiring and violent.Īnd I thought, that’s the end of that.
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You have to show two people getting tired.
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The knees creak a little more, you know? But it’s good to use that – particularly in the last encounter we have in the film. We worked on these fights.ĭo you bounce off a fist like you used to? So every day after we wrapped, we had this hotel room we trained in. You have to these days, right? But sure, there are a few more push-ups and sit-ups you have to do in the morning, and there’s a considerable amount of fight choreography training, and rehearsing. There’s always extra work in a movie like this. Does a movie like this require extra work? Speaking of getting hurt, you’re very active in this movie. They’re all normal people going about their daily lives. But it added an exoticism to the film, you know? The extras weren’t from central casting.