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10-22-2007, 05:49 PM
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| Joshtopian   |  Quote:
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10-22-2007, 07:44 PM
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| 30 Days of Josh  | I always LOVE LOVE LOVE the Conan Interviews. No one else makes so funny interviews than he does. Gosh, i had to laugh the whole video, cause about what they were talking. So damn funny. Especially the beard thing. But he did Bungee? OMG! I would never do that. Somybe the thing with these 142 parachute jumps is true anyways. thanks a lot for the video Kate andhoot for the article |
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10-23-2007, 05:53 PM
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| Joshtopian | No I didn't, PM him if you want. And another interview; JOSH HARTNETT as Sherriff Eben Oleson. Was it brutal to shoot for 33 nights? We worked really for the entire time at night. We shot a lot of studio stuff, so we shot during the day as well. But there were sections of it that we were shooting at night. I am semi-nocturnal, anyway, so it was fine. So what are your hours if you could pick them? It would be about noon to four. People could get very depressed because of the lack of vitamin D and from just lacking the comfort that comes from seeing the sun. Did that affect you at all? Well, I had one of those visors with the UV lamps on them, so it was good. They actually have those in Barrow, Alaska. It is pretty amazing… they are like little visors that they have underneath their hoods [with] little UV lamps. You go into some very dark territory in this film. How was that for you? It was fun for me. I guess, as an actor, it is kind of fun to move into the darker realms or the more obscure realms. Did you turn down the roles of Spider-Man or Batman? It just wasn't right for me. I knew Sam [Raimi] from that process. But I never wanted to play a superhero like that, because I feel like that once you have really become that sort of iconic character, people will always look at you that way. I wanted to play different kinds of roles and have them be believable. So I wasn't really looking to play [them]. But were you ever seduced by the whole idea and the kind of money and fame it would bring? Or is that something you don't really care about? Well, that is not why I am doing this. It is always nice to make money. I am not an idiot… I understand that you can only survive this business if you have a certain amount of cache that comes from the movies making money, but if I could circumnavigate the whole superhero character catapulting me into that realm, that is what I would want to do. So it is a little bit different. Was there a time in your life when you realized that maybe you would no longer need to return to McDonalds? For me it would seem like when I did Cracker, the first time I got a paycheck that was more than $150 in my life. I felt like I had made it at that point. I guess the trick for me is not to fear becoming obsolete and having to go back to McDonalds — not letting that run my life, trying to just choose things that you like, and not really worry about the consequences too much. In the film your character is very noble and makes a great sacrifice. Would you? If I were in this situation, I would probably lose my mind. I don't know. I wonder. That is how you are tested. You don't really know until you are there, I guess. But in situations where scary things, bad things are happening, I haven't run away screaming. So that is good. Hopefully I won't have to test myself in that way. What was it like shooting in New Zealand? I had a good time shooting in New Zealand. I almost bought a home there while I was there, because I loved it so much. The fact that so much topography is jammed into such a small area — it is like everything in the United States, basically, in a country the size of southern California. And there are so few people. It feels like open landscape. Natural. [But] it is still an 18-hour flight from here. That was kind of the biggest deterrent. When you were a child growing up, did you ever believe in vampires and ghosts? Of course. I had a friend, and his Mom would allow him to watch scary movies, and I wasn't allowed, so I would go up to his house. He lived two doors away, and we would watch like Poltergeist or The Exorcist, all those terrifying movies. They would stick with me for a few days. There was a hedge between my house and his house, and then there was like another 20-yard sprint to my door; and so I would take off from his house and literally get back to my house literally before that last door closed. I would jump the hedge and run through — that is what gave me my athleticism, I think. It came from being terrified of what might come out from behind the Winston's house as I ran across the yard. But, yeah, I believed that stuff completely. Do you get along with your ex-girlfriends as your character does with Stella? I try to remain friendly with my exes. Absolutely. If it is possible, and they are not completely psychotic. Can you talk about shooting I Come With the Rain? Shooting in Hong Kong was nice. But it wasn't all that different from shooting in the U.S. or shooting in Europe. But shooting in the Philippines was. We shot for a bit in a place called Diwalwal, outside Davao in Mindanao. And it was about a five-hour car ride from the nearest airport to the foot of the mountain where this town was. We went up to the mountain, and they had never seen white people in person before. It was a really interesting dynamic. They would follow us around. There were 43,000 people in the town, and there would be a couple of thousand following us around everywhere. People were very nice, very sweet. But there were some rebels around the area who kidnap for money, so we had to have the Philippine army with us. What do you play in the film? It is hard to explain. I am playing an ex-private eye who is asked to go to the Philippines to find the son of a pharmaceutical CEO who has disappeared, and then I follow that trail up to Hong Kong… The character that I am chasing has the power to heal. I am kind of this character who is really strung out and having a terrible time of himself. You start the film with him trying to kill himself. And he is overly empathetic. He finds the people that he finds by becoming like them … and the world is just too much for him. You are turning 30 next year. Do you see a change? I think I am calming down, yeah — which is good. I am starting to care less about what people think of me and care more about just what I want to do from day to day. http://www.premiere.com |
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10-24-2007, 04:54 AM
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| Joshtopian | From the same premiere.com interviews, here's why I love David Slade! Did you have anybody else in mind apart from Josh as your hero? It was funny. He was the first one we talked about. And it seemed like: "Oh, let's get this out of the way because he is not going to take the part." He'd turned down Spider-Man and Batman and various [others]. So here we are with this graphic novel tha |