You shared the screen, and some rather steamy scenes, with Miss Jolie. Can you describe for us laymen what it was like working with (and kissing) Angelina?
JM: It’s great. She’s cool. I was quite nervous when I got told that she was in the film because I was cast before anybody else. Then I was told Morgan was going to be in it and I was quite shocked and stunned. Then I was told Angelina was going to be in it and I thought, “F*ck, man, I really didn’t think it was going to be that big.” So I was quite nervous but within five, 10 minutes, you quickly realize that she’s cool and chilled out and fairly willing to have a laugh at her own expense as wherever else there’s a joke. And she was the one, more so than anybody else probably showed me the way to do these films. I was coming in and I don’t know, there’s probably a part of me that was worried because I was in a new environment. It was a new genre and slightly on the lookout for being fucked if you’ll excuse my French. But she was the one that kind of just reminded me, “You know, you don’t have to take it too seriously. We’re not changing people’s lives with a film like this. If you can’t have fun when you make a film like this, what’s the point in doing it?” It was a really good point and that kind of kept me chilled out for the rest of the time after that. And, she’s got a great stunt double called Eunice Huthart who could rip my head off really. She’s smaller than me but she could kick seven colors of shit out of me easily, and she’s one of the funniest ladies in the planet. She’s just so nice. So we had a good time, really, really good time.
In spite of the action, did you find it rewarding to put such intense character emotions into this film? Like the panic attack scene?
JM: I love doing that. It was also, I felt that the character arc and his journey provided a lot of drama in this as well. I didn’t feel like it was just a genre movie. I didn’t feel it was just a comic book movie. I felt there was a sufficiently interesting character and someone in a very truthful and actually quite sad place to begin with in the film. So it was scenes like that that made me think, well, I think the actor in me is not going to be unemployed for four and a half months while I do action, do you know what I mean? I did feel that there was enough to do there to satisfy my acting urge as well. And all the panic attack stuff I loved. I love really physicalizing, I don’t just mean by doing action scenes, but playing Mr. Tumnus in Narnia. It was such a physical role even though I wasn’t doing stunts, it’s still incredibly physical. And doing all the panic attack stuff, doing anything that’s emotionally instigated but physically manifested is just really, really interesting I think. It’s a complete emotional response, isn’t it? A panic attack. I loved all of that.
You shared the screen, and some rather steamy scenes, with Miss Jolie. Can you describe for us laymen what it was like working with (and kissing) Angelina?
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