Mark Strong over Kick-Ass

Mark Strong is gecast als Frank D’Amico in Kick-Ass. Frank is een maffiabaas. Jep, Mark Strong is alweer gecast als bad guy. Na Body of Lies, Sherlock Holmes en de komende Robin Hood film lijkt het erop dat meneer Strong graag de bad guy speelt, of dat ie getypecast wordt. Laten we het van de positieve kant bekijken en voor optie één gaan. Cinema Blend had een interview met hem.

Er was niet bijzonder veel Sherlock Holmes nieuws, los van korte filmpjes her en der die ik maar heb overgeslagen, omdat ze meestal niet langer dan 30 seconden waren. Niet interessant. Dit interview ging ook grotendeels over Holmes, dus ik laat hier alleen even zien wat relevant is voor Kick-Ass.

It's so violent all the studios turned it down. People who love graphic novels tend to be disappointed by the films that are made of them, and Matthew I think felt a real responsibility to make this as close in tone as he possibly could to the graphic novels, which he has done. Consequently it's extremely violent. What he's done to make it accessible and great fun is to inject a very humorous note using the soundtrack. The scenes play very wryly humorous, and there's just enough wit and humor in there to allow this world to exist in another place. Even though it's violent, it's not the real violence that you encounter every day. It's on another plane. I can play with [Frank, my character] a little more, because the tone of the film is very witty, very funny and very dark. I can allow Frank to be that as well.

Of hij vechten met kids leuk vond..

Yeah, I did. Which is an extremely strange way to go to work, to spend two weeks beating up a 10-year-old girl. It really twisted my head.

Awesome.