Vin! Hello
The last Witch Hunter is such a fun film, it's so much fun!
How would you describe it though because I heard you say it was the perfect date movie
and I can kind of see where you're coming from.
Except for the fact that no one goes on dates any more. It was actually Jimmy Fallon that
said it 'perfect date night movie' and I was like, it just occurred to me that I don't
think that people go on dates as much and so most people probably make it a group event,
or a girls night out or you know one for the boys. I think it's the kind of movie that
you're going to want to share with other people.
I went with a friend actually and we both thought it could easily be a TV series a bit like Buffy.
Sure, it could turn into a TV series.
Is that something you would be interested in doing maybe?
I'd be keen on exploring more chapters but it definitely makes you feel as though there
are many stories to be told. Especially because, think of the span of time, you're being introduced
to a character in the 13th century and simultaneously seeing how those events in the 13th century
are effecting the same character that happens to be immortal in present day New York City.
Our imagination just, we cant help but to think about all the other stories.
There's definitely something I'd like to see!
Just last night I was on the phone with the director Brack and he was sharing with me
the story line for the next one and I was just so intrigued by it.
So there is a sequel in the works?
Lions gate from the very beginning wanted to create multiple stories. I think it's also
because there's so much to be said on the topic of magic. Again, you can't help but
to imagine where he was in this 16th century, where he was in the civil war or in these
pivotal moments in history. What Cauldors take was.
There's lots to explore. Do you like, you're so much the action man in this film, do you
like being the action man? Do you like being the funny guy or do you like being the villain
in movies.
That's a good question. I guess I'm most comfortable in the anti hero zone and whether it employs
action or not is usually secondary to what the character is about or what the story is
about or what the message of the story is or the theme of the story.
Yeah, for sure. And you've come so far from the day when you first started out with multi
facial, like producing writing and directing. Are we going to see you maybe move in the
direction again. I mean there was talk that you could direct Fast and Furious 8.
Yes there was, if you ask my parents they're dying for me to go back to directing they
feel like I'm, that there's a sensitivity I have that plays to story telling as a director.
But I'm also really fortunate that the films that I'm in and the characters I've played,
people are excited about their evolution. So, that kind of stacks up a lot of time and
to direct a movie you'd have to essentially be off the market for a year and a half.
I kind of have been waiting, I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing or if I'm
being too big headed about it but, I've kind of been waiting for Hannibal. My heart has
been set on directing a trilogy with Hannibal as the center. There's a great possibility
the first big film I tackle as a director again.
That would be exciting to see. It would be very exciting.
And just very quickly before I go, because you visit memories in here so much, if you
go back to visit one memory in your life, what would it be?
I would love to see myself as a kid, I would love to see the time when, what it was like
and I recently visited the theater that I broke into when I was 7 years old, it was
very interesting, it was a place called theater for the new city. And it was at the ground
level of the change street hotel in the west village and just a month ago I went by there
and I saw the stoops and I imagined taking my banana seat bike with my gang of 6 and
7 year olds and throwing my banana seat bike up onto the stoop. Leaving it there, because
you didn't have to worry about it being stolen. and I remember seeing a door that you walk
down a few steps on the right and I remembered it being open and I remember being the type
of kid that New York kind of dirty city kid that would see an open door as an opportunity.
Not always an opportunity to do something good but, an opportunity and we were scavengers
in a way as kids. I remember being a kid and looking at that open door and us kids sneaking
in that open door to see what we could find or what trouble we could get into. And if
I, at this moment, if I could think of a time that I would've loved to have seen I would've
loved to of watched me as a kid kind of suss out and scope this open door.
That's a very vivid memory! So, thank you for your time Vin.
Any time. Such a find film.