![]() ![]() For me, what I learned, I started acting kind of out of nowhere, started in theater and actually my biggest thing when I started acting was people were always saying, “Great, but bring it down. Maybe that’s- that’s what I like to do though. I’ve had to play characters where there’s a difficulty of expression. Is it harder to create a character behind a mask like Phantom? You’re surrounded by probably a few tons of muscle and when you pool that together and pull all that spirit together and have nothing but focus and belief and pure intention, the power of that, you become 1000 times stronger, that it actually makes sense that you could hold off an invading army that don’t have that belief, that are in disarray, that you could hold them off quite easily. That started to become, a couple days after putting it on, one of my biggest allies, wearing that costume and feeling so strong, excited, you know, that your body was also an intimidating factor and inspiring factor for your army, as they all were. I kind of became a bit addicted to it or perhaps addicted to the advantages that it was giving me because after a certain point, I never once felt silly or strange standing in my cape. There was always a part of me going, “Okay, am I going to stop doing this?” But I was really kind of happy and surprised that I kept it up. I mean, that was seven months of training. I tried to borrow someone else’s but they wouldn’t give me them. And then to do it all in front of green screen, so there’s a way of doing it and a way of talking about it, and as you can see I’m really not good at talking about it. To try and get all those in with a man who really doesn’t talk that much was a challenge. ![]() He’s crazy and there’s a fearlessness that borders on insane. There’s an arrogance there, there’s a confidence, there’s a humor, there’s a dryness, there’s a compassion and there’s a certain amount of humanity and Then the guy is a nut job. It was that feeling, just that feeling of real inner confidence and yet then you can have fun with the other things because it was actually difficult to suck all that in and let out- he has a lot of things going on. Montreal with my shoulders back, my chest up. And also, that fire is burning inside you and then, you can completely go the opposite way and play it as a guy. Every time I trained, it made me feel more like a Spartan, more like a king, more like I was impressing my men and more like they would be willing to follow me. And even doing a lot of working out just before the takes and constantly doing that. It involves, like for me, I really focused a lot on becoming as big and as strong and as confident in those things as I could possibly be. But at the same time, to only do that and never give him a heart and soul, then the whole thing means nothing. And yet, you know that you have to rise to that element that it goes past even epic and becomes comic book. ![]() I think that it’s really trying to strike a balance between many things without getting too caught up in the different technical elements because I’ve never come across a character quite as powerful and intense and charismatic as this guy, and as badass. And if you are one of the five people who has yet to see any footage from the film – click here to watch a trailer. If you want to listen to the interview instead of reading it click here. If you are a man it’s not something you can talk about without cringing. Gerald covers a lot on the making of the film with the highlight being when he describes the chafing he had to endure in the groin area. ![]() It was done in roundtable form and conducted a few weeks ago. Below is the interview with Gerard Butler who plays King Leonidas. And to help you get ready for this FridayI’m posting a few interviews I did recently. You can flame me if you didn’t think it was worth it. But enough of me praising the film, just go see it. While we are watching an ancient battle with long dead soldiers, there is no way to not draw comparisons to what is going on in our world today. But reading those words just doesn’t capture what the film is all about. But if I had to write something, I would say it’s like you are watching a painting come to life.īy now most know the basic premise – King Leonidas and his 300 Spartan soldiers fight against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. The film is like nothing you’ve ever seen before on the movie screen and I really don’t have the proper vocabulary to accurately describe what you are going to see. Worth paying full price this weekend when it finally opens nationwide. ![]()
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