The whole element of transformation, being an actor, is what I’m interested in. Giving them characteristics, independent to the way he looks, I think that’s what comes through. I don’t know any aliens, so I can’t do research into what they’re like. How am I going to carry that on? I imbued him with human characteristics. My second thought was, what am I talking about? I’m going to be bright red with pointy ears and a huge forehead. My first thought was, how do we achieve that in the flesh, and if we could do that, it would be really cool. Martin told me to have a look at it and see if I was interested. The first contact with the Green Lantern was the look of Sinestro. Sinestro looks like a Vulcan Clark Gable, yet you still manage to maintain your dignity. The hero has a prearranged set of things. They’re the ones that you can do something with. I’ve struck this rich vein of dark characters. You always play interesting characters, even though they’re often creeps. There were certain things that had to be achieved, like an understanding about what a Green Lantern was, where they came from, how you became a lantern, what the ring’s power was. Establishing the mythology for people who don’t know. In Green Lantern, he felt he had to do a lot of pipe-laying. The climate at the moment is for going back and working where things have come from. I think Star Wars kicked it all off with the idea of prequels. X-Men has just had its First Class, the origin story. That’s just a feature of the movies at the moment. You’ve been in so many action hero origin films lately: Sherlock Holmes, Robin Hood and now Green Lantern. Guy (Ritchie) is doing Sherlock Holmes 2. I think what’s happened though is that everybody’s lives have been taken over by other projects. There’s a big hint at the end of the first one. Isn’t there supposed to be a sequel to RocknRolla? You might get to do your “Archy slap” in two films. He’s the kind of guy who can tell a joke, punch the bad guy and kiss the girl.”īut Strong is doing the talking right now, because Reynolds can’t wrap his promotional plans to include Toronto: His new pal Reynolds was similarly rhapsodic at TIFF last September when talking about Hal Jordan, the human test pilot who becomes a high-flying Green Lantern: “He’s a very classic kind of superhero, which is what I like. Spock ears, Clark Gable mustache and Day-glo Spandex duds, Strong is excited about discovering Sinestro. The genial Strong has had plenty of experience playing hard-asses of every stripe, in films like Sherlock Holmes, Robin Hood, Kick-Ass, The Young Victoria and now Green Lantern, which is directed by Martin Campbell and designed to be a franchise.Įven with his character’s Mr. I always tell them, ‘You have to use the back of the right hand.’” I’m sure I could dovetail those two characters. “That’s a great idea, actually!” the British actor enthuses during a Toronto visit this week to promote the film, opening this weekend. It was the head-smack heard around the world, and Strong, 47, wouldn’t mind if it extends to Green Lantern’s galaxy, maybe in the next film. As Sinestro, Green Lantern’s senior emerald illuminator, Mark Strong gets to boss around Ryan Reynold’s rookie hero.īut not slap him around - which is a pity, if you’ve ever seen Strong’s now-classic “how to slap” demo as the mob enforcer Archy in RocknRolla, Guy Ritchie’s British gangster goof.
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