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brick layer, lays bricks...I'm an Actor, that's what I do.
They thought it was really cool, and they can't wait to see the movie! They were really happy for me. We really support each other tremendously you know. We have great fun on the show together and we want for each other to do well. And, we are all psyched that we have a good half of the year to walk away from The Shield and do other projects, and this was a great one to be involved with.
There’s so many moments where I’m reading it going, “Oh, that’s awesome!” It’s really well-written, I have to say.
I was actually a little nervous when the female horse got shot.
I hoped that academy voters weren't swayed by the dogma that was being thrown around. Fortunately, they weren't.
I'll tell you exactly what I admire most about Ben Grimm, his strength of character, and that he's a reluctant hero, a guy that is much more concerned with doing the right thing and not the rewards of it. I just think that those are admirable qualities in anybody; to do something heroic and then, not want the spotlight for it, not expect a pat on the back for it. The fact that he's the character that is trapped in a body that he doesn't want to be in and that he's willing to give up such great strength to be himself is sort of an incredible, admirable quality. I don't want to give away anything, so let's just put it this way, I admire his selflessness.
He oversaw the production from a distance. He had casting approval, and script approval. So he acted as the big man on the mountain.
As an actor, the hardest thing in the world is when you read a script and you go, “Oh boy,” at all, on any level. And even if it’s just okay, then there’s this feeling that you have to lift it. You have to bring something more to it. When it’s good on the page, all of a sudden now it raises your confidence level because you go into it feeling armed. The best example I have of that is I did a one-man show on Broadway once. It was really successful, and it was successful because it was a great script. And I used to go out there on Friday nights, which is the worst night in the world on Broadway because it’s all the New Yorkers who are sitting there like this, “Alright
asshole. I paid $65 a head, make me laugh.” But I felt confident because I knew I was armed with the material. So I could go out there and go, “Okay, you’re copping an attitude now but I know by the time to get to ‘Alright I’m an
asshole’ I’m going to get the laugh.” It really feels good to be armed.
I'm hearing a little bit of both, but the wonderful news is that the people who have seen the movie have pretty much, uniformly been very positive, and if you read the bloggers this morning there are people who have actually gotten into some screenings and they're actually speaking very positively about the movie.
He didn't want to travel like the others. He had a career as a working actor in Los Angeles.
I’m training like a freak, personally. I need to trim down at the waist and bulk up at the chest I’m hitting it big time.
Are there any other kind?
Not hardly! You know, the expression on their faces when they saw me in the suit for the first time reminded me of when I got my shoulder dislocated in high school football. I knew I was badly injured when the lineman who hit me knocked my shoulder so that it hit the top of my head--try to do that. You can't, trust me.
Curly was very introverted and he drank a lot, and that's when he would come out -- either that, or in a performance, ... But he would hang with his stray dogs. And he was a big womanizer. I think it was overcompensation for being bald and heavy, and acting like a buffoon. He wanted to feel attractive.
Most of it was shot practically. The biggest CGI obviously was the other three. You know, with Ioan's stretching, obviously that was an incredibly tedious, arduous challenge for him I know. And Johnny Storm probably had it the easiest in terms of he'd do the scenes and then they'd disappear to post-production and he'd come back completely on fire.
I've learned not to do that type of thing. I let them do their own due diligence, which they did. I just let them do their thing and I did my "Thing" as it were.
The phone is ringing off the hook, and my poor 9-year-old is like 'What do I do?' This is surreal.-
Soon after he called his family.
Honestly, I thought I was a comic book fan until I went to ComicCon last year. Then, I realized I am but a novice. I pale in comparison.
You know, I was just a kid who liked comics. At 12, 13, 14 years old I really loved the Fantastic Four and there were several others that I really dug as well.
I was really into SpiderMan and Thor was great, one of my favorites, I loved Iron Man. So yeah, there were several that I really, really enjoyed but then when I hit about 14 or 15 and discovered girls--they sort of became the priority.
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