We want to make Rick Yune - Kang - a well-rounded character. That’s a danger, a trap that I don’t think you fall into here.īutler: It is a danger, but because what happens here is so brutal and appalling, we had to make out that even though they have causes that are real to them, what they’re doing is so ridiculous that you don’t really spend time getting to know them. THR: When you look back on American movies in wartime, the enemies are stereotypes. VIDEO: Gerard Butler Protects the President in ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ Trailer I don’t really feel a threat from Spain right now.” But it’s a good point because it’s all about making the story, this geopolitical climate, as plausible as possible and making the attack - the meticulous calculation, the genius behind that - as plausible as possible. If you made it about the Spanish, people would go: “I don’t get that.
Twenty or 30 years ago, it would have been about the Russians, 50 years ago it would have been the Germans. So as the villain of American foreign policy changes, so do the villains of the movie.īutler: Otherwise nobody would go see the movie.
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THR: Ten years ago, this movie would have been about al Qaeda trying to get the president. On top of that, it seems it’s a very engaging job, there’s so much to learn, there’s so much knowledge required and talents and training that the guys that I spoke to that do it, they loved it. But there’s something heroic in that as well. I think it would be a pretty fascinating job, but I think that it is interesting to have to live with that concept every day, that it’s your job to die for another individual or another group of individuals. The Hollywood Reporter: Do you think you could be a Secret Service agent and put your life on the line for someone like the president in real life?īutler: I think I could do it. The following interview has been slightly edited and condensed. 300 was my most special moment … it was my bar mitzvah.” “I think that’s going to be a great movie, and I love that team of people. It was hard to work out the dates,” Butler says. STORY: Antoine Fuqua on Dennis Rodman’s North Korea Trip, Violence in Movies and His Eminem Film The actor announced last summer that he wouldn’t return to feature in the film’s anticipated sequel, but as he tells The Hollywood Reporter, it was simply a matter of scheduling. The role of powerful and desperately outnumbered underdog helped catapult Butler to fame six years ago, when he starred as the Spartan King Leonidis in 300.
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