Beginning a series on the upcoming Universal release, “Wanted” I spoke with James McAvoy for CBR. Here’s a clip:
Though “Wanted” is an action piece, McAvoy believes his character comes for a familiar, mundane reality. “The character starts in a very truthful, sad place,” he said. “He’s a proper sufferer of postmodern depression and apathy. I think that’s a condition, man, that’s all too evident amongst young men and women who’ve got fine lives; who can’t bring themselves to smile or feel better about their ‘horrible’ existence, and I thought that was quite an interesting place for your everyman to start from.”
McAvoy admits he had a few mundane jobs in his time. He worked as a banker for two years and trained to be a confectioner. “The guy standing beside me”who was the grand master confectioner”he would, in a very kind of Zen fashion, make big cream cakes and wedding cakes and birthday cakes and things like that. I’d happily jam my sponge [into the cakes], then cream a thing. I did that and that was like a conveyor belt of cream cakes and jam cakes. It was very banal.”
More at CBR.
2 Comments
Comments RSS TrackBack Identifier URI
Leave a comment
Good piece. And you’re right, I like him a lot especially for this: “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?” True and correct! I keep telling Prince Charming’s little army the same thing, y’know? These things are very, very character driven as well as explodey.
You spoke to James McAvoy? Dreamy! Did you give him my number :-)