By Fred Topel | Images property of Columbia Pictures
You can be the biggest math genius in the world and slip through the Las Vegas security systems, but that won't help you when you're dragged into the back room with Laurence Fishburne. In 21, Fishburne plays the head of security tracking the MIT students whose system took casinos for millions. Ultimately, he turns out to be not such a bad guy, even though he roughs people up.
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"What's nice about it is that it was all on the page," said Fishburne. "It really was on the page and we also shot a couple of alternative scenes."
The character's ultimate motivations would be determined by which scenes they used, and we're not telling which one is in the movie. "The scenes with Kevin and I we did I guess three different ways. We shot it three different ways. It could have played that Mickey and Cole were in cahoots together or that Cole and Ben. So we played it three different ways. We had three different ways to actually end the movie."
Of course, 21 is based on a true story but it's ficionalized, so Fishburne's character does not actually impact the true story. "We made a good decision and also that last scene with Cole by the pool where you hear the narration. All that was kind of added later on too. But most of it was really right there on the page and it was one of the things that made it very easy to come do the movie for me."
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With all of that working in his favor, Fishburne did not research the real security officers pursuing the MIT students. "I worked the Morgan Freeman school of acting on this one. I learned my lines and showed up."
21 opens to theaters March 28th.
For the trailer, poster and more info on the film, go to the 21 Movie Page.
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