While doing the press junket for his new film, Two
Faces of January, actor Jason Isaac spoke with The Huffington Post about it,
his December release, A Most Violent Year, and his other upcoming film, Star
Wars: Episode VII.
Has you can imagine the actor didn't reveal a ton of
information about the film nor his character, but he did speak more freely about
his feelings towards George Lucas' "improvements" on the Original Trilogy.
"What
is it like working within the secrecy surrounding "Star Wars"?
You
can’t say anything. You can’t say shit. But it’s fine! I don’t know why people
are so obsessed with finding out stuff before the movie comes out. It’s so much
more fun to just go. I mean, I don’t do that. I don’t go looking for stuff that
I’m interested in, you know, to try and find out pictures and what the movie’s
about. It’s so much more fun to be surprised.
Is
there anything you are excited about that won't reveal anything about your
mysterious, yet-to-be-announced character?
There’s
not anything that I can say about the character, but I can say that I’m most
excited and, I know this seems nerdy, but I love the fact that J.J. Abrams is
shooting it on film. And that’s not just from an aesthetic standpoint -- it
really does matter -- but it’s about how a movie is filmed and the set, it
changes it. It changes so many things. I mean, I’ve had to do things over again
because there was a hair in the gate, which is so old school, but it just feels
better, and movies are all about feeling, so I think that’s something that I’m
so very excited about apart from the fact that it looks amazing, so textured
and alive.
Okay,
here's a nostalgia-based question that you'll be allowed to answer: How do you
feel about the "updates" George Lucas has made to the films?
Well,
it’s a funny thing. I mean there’s two things. As an artist, like, he made the
shit, so why can’t he do whatever the heck he wants with it. There’s a part of
me that appreciates that he doesn’t really care if people are upset about it.
He decided to share it with all of it and he wants to go back and do stuff,
whatever. But as a fan, I’d much rather go back and watch the old thing,
because it’s a product of the time. It’s what did you do at the time with the
things that you had. And that’s what made that movie so amazing. At that time
with that technology he made this thing and it was fucking awesome. So, you
know, to go back and kind of tweak it with new stuff, it doesn’t make it more
interesting for me as a watcher. It makes it less interesting, but I can’t
fault him for doing that."
Star Wars: Episode
VII opens on December 18, 2015 and stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie
Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Kenny Baker, Lupita Nyong'o, John
Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Gwendoline
Christie, Domhnall Gleeson, Max von Sydow, Crystal Clarke, Pip
Anderson, Miltos Yerolemou, and Greg Grunberg.
Source - Huffington Post
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