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James McAvoy is Wanted
By Fred Topel | Images property Universal Pictures
Wanted
James McAvoy has been in the thick of things before. He was on the battlefields in Atonement, and the trenches of Uganda in The Last King of Scotland, but being an action hero is a whole different world. Listen to his stories about shooting Wanted.
McAvoy Talks Wanted
"There's a car coming along at 30 miles an hour and I kind of rendezvous with it in the middle of the road and jump on the bonnet and then it hits the breaks and I go flying off, and another car smashes into the back," said McAvoy. "That was all real. There were no wires, there were no mats. I was padded up but that was all real. I can't believe they let me do that because they wouldn't let me jump through a pane of sugar glass window, which would scratch my face at most, maybe not even that, and they wouldn't let me do that but they'd let me jump on a moving vehicle."
While he had fun with the big, explosive scenes, McAvoy also found more intimate character moments in the script. "I felt that the character arc and his journey provided a lot of drama in this as well. I didn't feel like it was just a genre movie. I didn't feel it was just a comic book movie. I felt there was a sufficiently interesting character and someone in a very truthful and actually quite sad place to begin with in the film. 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.'"
Wanted
The film also goes from heavy and serious to light and outrageous at a moment's notice. "That was totally fun. I mean, I'm guilty of trying to find the humor in even the most serious of films that I've done and it always gets edited out so it was kind of a joy to be in an environment where the director and producers were saying, 'No, no, no, try. You have an idea? Go for it. You want to fall down? Great, cool. There's a rubber chicken over there if you want to get it in the frame. Here's a banana skin.'"
Getting his character's journey consistent while shooting out of sequence was a bit more challenging. "I'd never done a film that took four and a half months to film. Narnia took five months or something like that but I was hardly in it. So when you shoot out of sequence, as you always do, say for two months, it's less spread out because you've only got two months of a shoot. And the film's still going to be the same length as Wanted is, but when you spread it out over four months, there's even more opportunity for it to become disparate and become disjointed. So you really have to be on top of your continuity and your script. You have to really ride the directors and the producers to kind of go, 'Wait, wait, wait. While you're making that decision, what happens before, can I do that actually?'"
Wanted opens to theaters on June 27th.
For the trailers, movie stills, posters and more movie info, go to the Wanted Movie Page.
Fred Topel
Sources: Images property Universal Pictures
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