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 I think to let it go over your head. If someone says something ridiculous, you let it go over your head and don't react and just from that reaction it makes people laugh.
I
bunked off school for eight days in a row to sit and watch Grease over
and over.
With Wolverine mainly. It was incredible, Brett wanted most of the actors to do as much as they can. I mean, Halle Berry does this amazing stunt where she spins down about 40 feet and goes through this garden through the wall and she does it all herself. It’s awesome. And we’ve done some frightening stuff. It’s so great with that because me and Halle and Hugh worked on Swordfish together so it was a little reunion. We had good fun.
I’ve signed for three, four and five. That was in the
deal. And Vinnie Jones is game for more. Hopefully, yeah. I want a bigger
house.
Puffy
faces, beer bellies - I can't afford to go that way. For the parts I
play I've got to look respectable, lean and mean.
Brett gave me some great lines in it. Juggernaut’s a cool dude. I’ve got some funny lines.
Braveheart, I also really like Westerns, so I would say The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. I also like mafia movies; so anything with
De Niro and
Pacino. I liked the original Get Carter.
That was one of the main things, really. The films I've been doing have been short and sweet lines and I haven't been able to express myself as much as I've wanted to. So, this is my first lead role and there's about 110 pages of dialogue which has been brilliant.
Well, I think the comedy is the same comedy as in Lock, Stock and Snatch. Guy Ritchie was executive producer. Matthew Vaughn was producer, so it's black comedy, sort of the characters having a laugh at themselves.
Because if you know and understand your character, it is pretty easy to get into it. But if you suck, any viewer will see through it. In football, you have a supporting cast and the end result is the work of everyone.
I won the FA Cup which is like the Superbowl for you in '88.
We gave them to other actors. I didn't want to do all the parts because the English people would have known it was from my playing days.
I got involved in a lot of controversy over the Paul Gascoigne
incident.
Believe it or not, mostly the fame aspect and how to handle it. Also, you gotta be lucky, both in sports and showbiz.
Just encouragement a lot of times. They would get a bit nervous. I would just encourage them and say, "Nothing to worry about. Let's go again."
After everything that was said and written about my clash with Paul, I was really worried about going to St James' Park
on February 20 to face the Newcastle fans.
I enjoy it a lot, I like to entertain, it's fun.
Well, we had one girl who plays Massive, who's my pal. He just couldn't get it so we gave him a non-football role. We made him the manager, played by Vas Blackwood who was in Lock, Stock.
On the movie side, I really like making them; so going to the premieres is always a highlight, there is so much energy.
Robert De
Niro a class guy. Always great.
Because
the actors that we got in, the first part of the casting was to see if
they could play football. They had to look natural with a football as
well as with their lines, so once we got the actors that we wanted who
could play football, then we trained them for about three weeks.
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