In preparation
for this Friday the 19th release, actors Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds sat
down with collider for an interview.
“Question:
Ryan, you’ve done a number of comic book films. Is there something more
appealing about the genre to you? And Jeff, we don’t usually see you in films
like this, so what struck you about this one?
JEFF BRIDGES: I like bizarre movies, and this one
fit the bill. You know, ones that are surprising. I love to see movies where
the filmmakers are ahead of you and you don’t know what’s gonna happen, and the
premise of this one was so
bizarre that I thought, “Oh, yeah. This could be interesting.”
RYAN REYNOLDS: Comic books, I don’t read a lot of
them. It’s such a huge part of the industry these days. It’s a legit genre unto
itself. It’s the same as most actors will end up in a drama at some point; at
some point you’re gonna end up in a comic book movie it seems like these days.
I’ve been lucky to be a part of a few of them. But this isn’t really a comic
book. It’s a graphic novel, which I read after I read the script. I just thought
that the world was really cool, seeing these two lawmen who were of completely
different eras and modalities, and how they do things, kind of come together
and clash, that’s what I thought was kind of cool.
…
There’s
a lot of running around and action in the film. How’d you prepare physically? I
also imagine it takes a toll on your body.
BRIDGES: Most of the difficult stuff, physically,
for me, was being spun around in that car. That was the biggest challenge.
REYNOLDS: I think with movies like this, you have to
have some degree of toughness. You’re gonna get beat up a little bit, but it’s
not as bad as you’d think. I did a film a year and a half, two years ago called Safe House and my neck was killing me after the
movie and I went six or seven months and I finally went and got an x-ray. The
doctor laughed and said, ‘You broke your neck!’ I was like, ‘What?’ My C5 and 6
were broken! You think you’re an actor and you think the stunt guys do it all,
but you get beaten up so now I’m a little bit more, ‘Let’s let the stunt guy do
it. I’m good. I’m fine.’
BRIDGES: You get carried away when you’re in a movie
because you think it’s all pretend.
REYNOLDS: Yeah, and you get knocked around a little
bit. I think Jeff was doing even more than I was. He was doing a lot.
BRIDGES: Well, you had that chair thing that was
pretty wild.
…
Ryan,
you’re great in The Croods and Jeff, you’re working on The Little Prince, so how does
doing an animated movie compare to a live-action one?
REYNOLDS: Well, a live action movie is work and an
animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in
my case, just a splash of baby powder. It’s not any kind of heavy lifting.
Doing an animated movie is just a ton of fun. The most work I did onCroods, or Turbo for that matter, was just showing
up at the premiere. When they ask you to do movies like that, you just say,
‘Absolutely. When and where?’
BRIDGES: One of the fun things about doing an
animated film, it’s all about honing. You just keep perfecting and they never
commit to the final product because it’s so expensive until down the line so
you work on it for three years. Woody Allen kind of can do that. He can shoot
his whole movie over again. But I love that. You can really experiment with
different things and you’re always encouraged to improvise. They have video
cameras on you capturing the actual live action. I really enjoy it.
REYNOLDS: But you’re right. They don’t know the
story even until they’re sort of halfway through. They start shaping it.
BRIDGES: It’s a long process. And The Little Prince, being
involved with that, I’m really excited about it.
…”
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