Street Kings

John Corbett Battles the Street Kings
"They pulled this car up, I think it's called a Go Mobile and it's this car with a five hundred horse power Cadillac engine in it," recalled Corbett. "A guy sits outside of your car and a cameraman is in the backseat. Keanu is in the backseat and I'm driving. Amaury [Nolasco] is in the passenger side. So we're actually driving through the streets of L.A. in a kind of choreographed stunt with the real cars coming at us. A couple of times we smacked off the side of a bus and there's really no special effects. We're flying about 50 miles an hour for almost a mile and a half and Keanu has a handcuff in my mouth and I'm trying to drive, but of course the guy on the side is driving though you never see him. These two are going at it with full force and his fist is swinging by me and the wind is like a hurricane coming by as they go at it, kicking each other. There's no choreography to it. It was just on action that they started going at each other, hitting each other with everything and then the director would yell cut and we'd have to go back again. They'd be sitting there rubbing their shoulders and wiping the blood off their lip. It was pretty intense, that scene there."

It may surprise fans of Corbett's leading man dreamboat roles to see him as a dirty cop. It may be even more surprising to hear about his real connection with the police department.

"Believe it not in 1982 I went through the LA County Sheriff's program and it took about a year. I was working in a steel factory. I was a boiler maker. My dad tried to become a Deputy Sheriff in the late '60s and he didn't make it. So I tried. It took about a year. Every three months or so you go on and you do your physical agility and you pass that and move on to interviews and orals and stuff like that. Ultimately I didn't make it. I wasn't Deputy Sheriff material, but I wanted to do it."