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must x-men movie an automatic yes
for each reviewer was there any no was a
me up but desperate for the word
I what was on your mind with that hatcher
I was already experiencing the downside
of having played for seven years on television and for feature films
um a very iconic figure
I one director had quite recently said to me I had been campaigning
to get a role in the film I read the script love this and finally I got in
the room with the director who was very pleasant
until he said to me but tell me honestly why would I want captain picard in my
movie
mmm car my interest in the film
diminish in Islam a I'm and
and so when I met with bryan said took me to lunch from
I said look I've got one wonderful
and much loved albatross around my neck I don't want a second
and he promise me rather like Rana who was that man who directed
winter style he said this will not be an albatross
I promise you and it will be a totally different experience from being
captain picard and course it has been because
the material is so different right
right I i have not heard affects men I didn't know about the comic something
about the TV
I'm version of it up
and so when the script arrive in bra not I just another from them
are I looked up the comics well I'd
a if you see Mike nature in the comics you a retirement
it unusual but I'm
he is usually a shot from underneath South America but
on I so i cant wait to slip into that gear
run so to speak
here I I
rather as explode with I would much rather
there so the crossing box he said he said
surely orange axe man because this is about mutants this is about
people who society has decided are different and therefore
inferior yes
and he said and the demographic for the readers
up the comics and it's proved also to be the demographic up the huge fans of
this year's are young blacks young jews
and young gays to identify with mutants because
they have felt in there are large that the other society wants to discard them
in some mild
disregard so recently out as a gay man the
that I some on a gay director who appreciated the the
I would respond to that it seemed to me a
an added bonus but the Sri Austria was to be in a
a big Hollywood movie and under and that's when they became real
chum sitting in the trailer waiting for Hugh Jackman to finish
but up
but all but that they are the
love that we have that got home and we keep going public with just been up to
Montreal and
to the month a ring and the other I'm you get to talk to
Halle Berry not perfect but up
what you eating this is that
how's your love life and you know should tell your predecessor
their underestimate I mean where where all
famines actors are all from when you get to work with people you've admired
a or lusted after a I
its a we're overlooking
there were mornings firm eiffel forget
going to make a trail in finding every chair for
because invariably actresses are always called before the actors because they
they take longer and what would be compelled to go from chat
check giving a kiss on the cheek to Halle Berry family and some
Rebecca Samos a and a pack when
Kelly you I mean it when I hear Jackman and nutrition
I've
I'm I i must tell his story about here because I told him his present recently
I'm we had started filming the first x-men film
and we didn't have a Wolverine not so we did have a will really was cost
but he was on another movie and it was running over and they would not release
it
so they quickly needed a
worry and one day this sweet charming rather boyish
Australian turned up on the set in Toronto
until the city was he got this call is coming up to
to do it screen tess father a World room
and the and we'd like to meet that satin had coffee scene
charming job of you into the screen test and he came back about an hour later
and he said well I gotta say goodbye cuz you never gonna see me again
I and I died since you are
and his arm british Prime
I as before and Oklahoma
Oklahoma on a beautiful morning and German arms production
Island singing about to job boo
drew or bauza sure Hemsley who
right a now getting to work member in the
in the trailer on the first date someone
what it was that you guys were talking about when you realized okay this wasn't
just
to colleagues who've been in the business together for a long time that
it was going
deeper than that toward friendship I I think it was when we began
for me when I began to find out that
this actor that I had admired for a far for so long
have so many things in common with me
background interest passion about Shakespeare
passion about being on stage in front of live audience
that's what be a cement idea I was very impressed with what
perhaps you could die I have the distinction of being the the only friend
who advised him not
Tudors star trek: and but
through yeah what i said im
but why we how we happen to be in and at the same time
and the you said you this possibility was on offer
city could be second yes away from
mom took away from you theater career
must've thought about that the Sun there were other reasons
more positive a and the and he took it but
that he was not arriving around
trailing the glory of that success I'm not just as an actor but as a
directors and Sherrod's
Sarah going a movie star and international
name up but absolutely I was not and
so I was some sitting at C Street Birmingham
how to ask for a better trailer thing I
haha I
are a no on 1 watching you work and and
in a it's a you you get a chance to %uh
more so than this is Ryan and film a
watching the other actors do their work you you're behind the camera your
you're not required to give a follow-up performance but they are and you're very
close to the man you see them do it
and a in a thats you get to see the Masters
work close up through I have that recently with them
Martin Freeman on and playing
up bilbao and and and and The Hobbit movies she's
thrilling in when you started that
that year-long epic shoot on
on the Lord of the Rings movies and 1999 demanded you
have a sense of what those movies could be calm
or did it all seem like while this is a very
busy very big production but I'm not sure what it's going to
to lead to work bob is difficult to remember that but
in 2000 the internet was a very new saying
on somehow I II it intrigued me and I got onto it
a the was a and Wroxham
a blog I call it something else I call it a %uh
e post not but I i kept a diary
i think i vented blocking but
not not unfortunately the actual words are
right but the other personal a the who was
equally keen on on communicating with people beyond the production about the
the film's was Peter Jackson the director and
I daily he would come and say there waiting for this movie
on our roads are we going to Zen at that worried about this movie
them though they want to be certain that Tom bills going to be in it
what are you going to do when the the discovery is now and so we were
communicating with fans and
and so we had a sense which is rad when you're making a from
the there was an orange ready for it
would they like it respects the tension when they liked the first film and we
were back in New Zealand
getting the second and third ready renew we were making a film for fam solve the
film
so there was a relaxed atmosphere we just got to do it is
well as we possibly can because they going to they are going to enjoy it
and you know people forget with their knees reactors as
is for you you a play
without an audience it doesn't exist
is just a rehearsal as preparation for the moment when
the audience arrives and adds it's the same with the film
disadvantages was acting for the camera is that you never in the presence of the
audience
March but we knew there was an audience and that's
what time what made
a lotteries and the whole bit too special the
we were parts for a big big international family
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