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Common on Wanted
By Fred Topel | Image property Universal Pictures
Wanted
Hip hop artist Common has been breaking into Hollywood with roles in films like Smokin' Aces and Street Kings. This summer, he costars in the potential blockbuster Wanted. Based on the graphic novel, Common plays a character called The Gunsmith.
Common Talks Wanted
"The Gunsmith actually is much as you know gun is in his name, he’s more of a peaceful, calm spirit," said Common. "More of a Buddha-like type of person in a certain way. Though he’s in part of a fraternity that’s assassins, these assassins issue out fate. Like they get from what you call this weave, I forgot what they call it. Anyways, something that issues out fate. Like they tell us who we’re supposed to go take out, and it’s the will of fate. It’s not like a bad thing that these assassins are doing. So The Gunsmith is the calm spirit of that team that actually trains everybody with their weapons."
As the script was written before most of the graphic novel was published, it departs from the source material. Gunsmith is a completely new character. "Man, the movie, I’m really excited about that movie. It looks like something I’ve never seen before, from the storyline to the way it looks and the effects that they have. And also even just the diversity in the cast. It’s like you hit every facet by getting Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman, James McAvoy, Common… All these different genres and it’s good taste to me, what they chose. If I can say humbly, I think they chose some good people to be a part of it. Man, I’ve only seen the first 20 minutes of the film and I’m like, ‘Man, I can’t believe I’m a part of this,’ so I’m excited about it. We just did some reshoots the other day and everybody seems excited. Even James was talking to me like, ‘Man, I really think it’s a good movie,’ and I can tell he’s critical about things."
The recent reshoots fill in some of the wild action with character building moments. "We picked up some scenes that really helped develop the story more and brought more of my character, Gunsmith, and Morgan Freeman’s character, Sloan, kind of developed them a little more, and also helped the story along. We were in Sloan’s office having a discussion."
Common also saw a sense of irony in his scenes with Freeman. "One of the scenes I was driving and he was in the backseat and so it was the reverse of like Driving Miss Daisy. I was driving Mr Freeman, but I didn’t get to say it. I’ll tell him sooner or later that I was driving. When we see the movie it’ll be like Driving Mr Freeman."
Wanted opens to theaters on June 27th.
For the trailers, movie stills and more movie info, go to the Wanted Movie Page.
Fred Topel
Sources: Image property Universal Pictures
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