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Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins
Common has just begun work on Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. He breezed through some of the preproduction because he's already done many movies with guns (Smokin' Aces, Street Kings, Wanted.) By the time the Terminator people got him on the weapons range, he aced the test.
Common Ready for Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins
"Actually, not to brag, but when I got to gun training for Terminator, I went one day and they were like, 'Oh, you know all this s**t,'" said Common. "I was like, 'Yeah.' I humbly was like, 'Yeah, I got this. I can do this.' It was simple. Gun training was like one day and, like I said, they knew."
Still, there are many Terminator stuns he will not be allowed to do for insurance reasons. "I’m just starting the filming but there was a motorcycle scene where I wanted to do a stunt but they were like, 'Nah, we can’t let you do it on the motorcycle.' It was like I was getting knocked off the motorcycle and they didn’t want me to do that but I was open to it. At a certain point I did think though, 'Well, I do got an album coming out.'"
Set in the future where the war against the machines is in full force, Common marveled at the film's set. "Man, that set, the way I can describe it, being respectful to the film, is it’s just an incredible set. I went in there, I went to that set and it was like, 'Man, we are in this world. This is like Terminator. I’m in The Terminator, right in this world.' I would say the set is incredible."
Common has not had scenes with Christian Bale yet, but it's coming. "I’m playing Barnes. I part of the resistance, really like one of John Connor’s right hand men, a freedom fighter."
Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins
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