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one of the great things tom of course about
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writing about Theatre in London as I do is seeing the sorta
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beginnings the people's careers and their careers developing all sorts of
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ways
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as jurors obviously has but it seems like most British actors begin
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you're pretty much most that the major ones I'm
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and then they do it don't go on to cinema when you work in the theater
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early on what did you think about a film career to date seem totally remote
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or you always buying your teacher had some a/c
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gosh I'm it's so hard to
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retroactively go back
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I went to drama school ready to train to be a theater actor
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because I knew that that drama school really gave you tools
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four states Croft that you needed I thought
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am and it gave you a kind of physical
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rigor and professionalism in the way of attacking
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different texts and characters in and methodologies and I wanted seven mas
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myself n
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learning accents and states fighting
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and see everything from 6 p-8 a Miller to Tennessee Williams
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ways wonderful am kinda the weather theater in
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when I started in the theater seem very remote this movie world seem like you
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have to get
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is like being picked to play for Manchester United or Real Madrid
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possible you know like am it and it seemed very
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you know I would I would be in productions
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like the ones you saw I'm at the Donmar or whatever and
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and I don't listen for films and he was a great audition
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not this time my god okay and
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and i actually I had a I started making a list I wanted to say to make a list of
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Directors I'm excited to get them from it man
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and I had stopped making the list and because I
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would never pick an effect have and
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people would always call my agent and say you know tom's
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terrific a whose is like became same in the play
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I'm there was always this question to finance and funding needed
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you know it just seems I was like well forget it am it's never gonna happen
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and then I kind of am Spurs I kinda broke my own rules a bit
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and I became fascinated by I was very lucky in the theater to work with them
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very established film names I suppose
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I worked with them Ewan McGregor and two Italian
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as your foreign a feller and then I at on television thing with that dainty
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dance
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and them obviously with kenneth browner and and
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I found their stories are quite interesting
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and based they kinda demystified the whole thing for me
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they they serve said I don't listen to what they tell you know it's nonsense
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you know
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am and there was a received wisdom said in my generation
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that to go to America and try and stop
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the film career was you had to go off the back at some enormous home-grown
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success like
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I'm ice like UN in Trainspotting
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for example so where so that's the I was signed by
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am an agent in Los Angeles who came to see a fellow
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and that never happens and LA agent comes to see
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shakespeare and goes that like it looks good okay
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and I
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and I said it took upon and when I was a LAN
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and and just when with an open mind and an open heart and
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them I got lucky I and distressed me of course
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low-key does have a theatrical thread because Thor was directed
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by somebody with who YouTube peered on-screen many times
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and actually on stage yeah kinda brenna
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and your wonderful performance in circle serve on a from the west and
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when you were doing play with with can
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was he sort of taking backstage going actually the school blockbuster public
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up
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shut quite like you to do when you finish this China staff truly truly
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truly
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when when it was announced that he was directing the film
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in the interval I run up to his dressing room
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with an enormous empty water cooler
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I'm pretending it was for
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the hammer of Thor he in costume
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aunts hair and you got the job right yeah I brought it because it was so in
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my own mind it was so
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outrageously I'm on available
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you know it was just not gonna there was no way I was going to be considered
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and then so happened I was talking to my
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LA agent to see me a fellow it off to them
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and I was in Los Angeles kinda nearly around just seducing
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was there and he was that to any guy said he asked me to come in addition
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for the role offshore because at that time
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i misses an amazing character anyway because
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it's like on one level Chris Hemsworth you end up getting and who is
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monumental in the rock have to say and his dear friend
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so this absolutely no bad blood between the two he p.m.
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requires such physical stature but also requires a great actor
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who can go from arrogance to phone ability to
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am but you can also sell the action a big blockbuster in
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you know and so they were really didn't know
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what they wanted so they were looking at everybody and damn
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I was over six for and blonde so I passed muster there
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and I'll addition and eventually said got down to the wire in the produces
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said night skies kinda so right
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like should put him in the film somewhere in and you I said say
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publicly I'm pleased to be able to say I'm
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that I II kenneth browner an enormous
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desecrated just sigh I'm so much because
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because the businesses so often
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but thats I did it that the big movie business not the art
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not the peeps at the creative people but that the people with the
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dollars this so scared investing in something that's you know I'm not gonna
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work in
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and M and can was able to say to
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produces on a film the cost a lot of money Tom
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well bike he's got it don't worry im
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and and and to do that it's just an amazing thing to do for young actor like
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everyone needs a break and like I've said they were many many
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people there's a long list of people who didn't give it to me and I ever started
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to think that it
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you know it was kinda gonna happen person had a completely different
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physical transformation to do
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the for sequencing your currently shooting the third one
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in the series its for I'm so proud to be in that film
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because that's part of me I think this pop art have any actor
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with basically still a five-year-old child and am
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I E grew up watching things like Christopher Reeve as Superman
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and them Harrison Ford in indiana Jones and
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and in app superheroes its biggest its toilets
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it's a toy box and and I'm
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I love playing that character because
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he's actually really complex for
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a super here for this a supervillain and II
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part of the appeal is is is is to do with the
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physical transformation because I've never wanted to be in that kinda threads
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into what we were saying about Britishness
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I've never wanted to be boxed in by
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by it a type of character that I always play
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I find I would get I would term
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I just would find it very am interesting and I don't think anyone else would
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and part of the reason I'm an actor is I'm interested in
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indifferent shades of the truth
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indifferent parts have life and how quite often
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am where like the human race each is bound together by
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by a certain unity in things and and
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acting in whatever you're in is about excavating
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the things that make us all the same birth death
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love grief loss loneliness
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gratitude generosity humor solitude I'm
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and all those things exists in every
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in every story anytime and anyplace
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and that's the joy for me sorry and
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a joint for me if of of playing different people from different times
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in different costumes at different hair color and
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you know and different shades is that whether it's the DPC
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or ivanoff or I'm the Avengers
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ago still kinda digging around in
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humanity and the fun stuff
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is that United fences I'm you get to
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fly through the air and and and be
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beaten almost to a pulp by The Incredible Hulk
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and
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would say not many accident and does not match oh yeah exactly what happened in
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Sec off and I'll update you know I
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it I loved the fact that time I love the taking this picture
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I mean I'm your am I've got blonde hair I was born in London
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and I you know it was never in my wildest dreams thought that I would be
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playing
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the Norse god of mischief I'm
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come down to I'm to
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tyrannized the human race and takeover
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the planet and and because I've got some
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you know daddy issues hits
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and some brother issues and Sam
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and i were quite thrown you know and
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you know but also in the in a film like that which is
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which is so beautifully tied together actually it's as you very tightly
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written
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and it's very entertaining very funny I got to work with people like
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Robert Downey junior and and somehow Jackson
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know it's a great casa people out for look
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me what pic you shape it he said what Meyer to be longer shorter
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more you know breast plate boots how do you get to the look
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well I'm I'm starting to I had a long time initially before the first or film
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I simply started with the great thing about the character is actually ancient
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he is possible Norse mythology which goes back
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s as far if not for that and the greco-roman
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quality and your care look at turns up in Scandinavian Mets
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everywhere he was like am Diane I sizzle backers he was
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he was the spirit who am
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people were afraid of you know he was the monster the parents
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told their children about tonight's am
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and he after four sorry for
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have he heat but it's fascinating you read the Norse myths and you realize
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that there's actually a huge amount if
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if material there and then what Stan Lee and Jack Kirby did when they started
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drawing the Marvel Comics in the sixties
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is that when invented for and low key in Odin
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they borrowing and very honestly kind of
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stealing from I'm this this
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pantheon of Norse gods and then so I read all the comics &
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and it starts off being much sillier than
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than them even i'd I dyed it in in the first runs the comics low-key comes down
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anytime the whole street ive
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cars in New York and ice cream I'm because he thinks it's funny
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and it is kinda its I have
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and any changes that you know he looks very much like a comic book character
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and so there was a thing of trying to be true to the look at the comic book
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because that's what we're doing is we're giving
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you never making a film of a comic but also trying to make its
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palatable to a regular film going audience
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he just like movies and and but making it a real story about
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January about father and two sons and something that people could connect to
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am so can I talked about this experience references
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fathers and sons and brothers and units shot through with
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with all that stuff and then in terms of creating the look we we just talked
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about it and said
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know how do we make something that's both Rico
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and kind if am
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athletic and am
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so that majestic and also dock
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and but also practical you know cuz you have to get through the day and
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and and fighting it so has to move so it's a very complicated
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said it's an aria and then as the americans have this work which i think
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is kinda untranslatable
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which is badass for him to
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he's a bad as badass as a ESO like and says Saunders you've been a
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the model produces a great cuz they go you know Tom Conti want what you look
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like maybe a movie we want you to be able to comment
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you basically what you look awesome and badass
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you go okay and then he said experiments and it's like it's almost like a mosque
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it's like
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like any character you need a mosque through which to
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project that particular truth locus truth is one of
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I'm insanity and deranged
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evil am antes you know
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her sons lost and lonely but it but
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dying my hair black in sort of painting my face in the way
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it gives me some months ago after two hours of sitting in makeup and going to
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cost you
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you look in the mirror and you're completely different check
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am and it you know it's it's kind event is your back in this world of course
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again
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for for the next installment yeah do you wanna wet
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the audience's appetite which is too little bit of where the journey takes us
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now
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I A wants to tell you but
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I would have you'd have to be shot yeah I would have to carry or
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I'm which are so lucky would love to do for I