So Kellan, Tarzan is a great film for the kids. I was wondering what you think adults
are going to love about it.
Well, what I love about these sort of movies. You know, much like Up for example, the subject
matter is very important, and it's coming across with a point to get across about serious
issues, but in a light way that even kids can understand. They can walk out of there
with questions for their parents and also to see the change throughout the film that
they can do in their own lives, and our Tarzan is more contemporary, more modernised Tarzan.
Basically the skeleton structure of the original story, just placed in nowaday moments. So
it deals with deforestation. It deals with poaching, and kind of just what's going on,
you know? And being relative. It's very relative to the world that we're living in now.
It's obviously got all the aspects of Tarzan that we are familiar with as well, especially
the chest beating. I wonder if you could give me any tips on how to do that. I've been practising.
I'm really bad.
Don't do it too hard. Last time, when we were up there, because I'd be... It's an action
movie, so you're in your motion capture suit, which I love motion capture because there's
no hair, there's no make-up. You don't have to look pretty, just throw on your wet suit-ish
sort of superhero suit, but as I'm doing the action scene, climbing up the mountain. I
remember the first time I was really excited to do it. I hit my chest so hard that I knocked
the wind out of me.
I fell down. I was like... They weren't sure what I was doing. Obviously, all the cameras
are picking it up, so I had to do another take with that.
You think you can do it spur of the moment now?
I can't move in this jacket. You can though.
I was going to have a contest with you. No, I look awful. I'd look awful.
Prove it.
No. You've obviously got the gorilla impression down very well. What are your other jungle
animal impressions like? Can you do a tiger?
Um... I haven't really worked on anything else.
No? How about a snake? A snake's really easy.
-Do it. -I can do it.
What's your impression of a snake?
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I'm not supposed to be doing it. You're supposed to be doing them. Um, also Tarzan does a very
good job wooing Jane. I don't know if wooing is a really old fashioned term.
I like it. He does. He's old-fashioned. That's a great thing.
How would you go about wooing a woman?
The same way Tarzan does. He's just a hopeless romantic, you know. He's all in, and I'm all in.
No tips then for the guys then? How to get a girl like Jane.
Read Cosmo Magazine guys. You'll learn all you need to know.
I want to know what you are doing next. That's what I wanted to know.
Expendables 3. I did that with all my favourite heroes. So that comes out August 15th.
And is there anything you can tell us about that?
Uh yeah, it's going to be the best out of all three. I mean, we have amazing actors
in it. It's really... It's a badass cast. It really is. Larger than life. Patrick Hughes,
our director, is one of a kind. Really fresh, really new, but able to drive that massive
ship with all those names like Sylvestor Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson, Harrison
Ford, Wesley Snipes, Antonio Banderas, Kelsey Grammer and you know with the young guns.
It's pretty much the old guns with the young guns, and they team up. Tons of explosions
and battles and firing guns. It's an intense, high-octave ride adventure with our audience.
And what is it switching between doing films like Tarzan and doing action films like that,
where it's just so crazy and you know, this is a kids' film and that is one for the boys.
I just love action, so if it's swinging from trees or blowing buildings to shreds, sign
me up. And the great thing is, every action movie that I do, and I've done a lot now,
you learn something new. And it only adds to your repertoire, your resume of your talents
that you have because you're being taught by the best of the best. For Tarzan, working
with Peter Elliott, who is an expert with apes and movements. He really made me move
and motion like an ape and with Expendables, shooting all those guns, being taught by professional
gun handlers and my character rides a motorcycle, so I had this awesome stunt guy named Frog,
who is a genius on the bike. He helps get me to ride a motorcycle as fast as I could.
Do you think you could take on that guy?
No, they are incredibly strong.
Well, thank you very much anyway Kellan. Thank you for your time. Good luck with Tarzan and
Expendables and everything else that you do.
-Thank you. -Thank you.
Cheers. Take care.
Oh now you do them!