By Ryan Parsons | Image property of Columbia Pictures.
Wes Bentley is Blackheart in Ghost Rider
To watch Wes Bentley go from confused teen with a camera to Blackheart in Ghost Rider is definitely a stretch. OK OK, he does fit the gothic profile, but for director Mark Steven Johnson it was more than that.
Wes Bentley Talks Ghost Rider
The good people at RT caught up with Bentley in Park City and got the actor to discuss the character Blackheart including how he landed the part.
Although you might not guess it from his nice-guy repertoire, Bentley nabbed the evilest role of his career from the "Ghost Rider" director himself. "I knew [Mark Steven Johnson] through mutual friends; we get along to this day, he's one of my closest friends," Bentley explains. "He just always saw me playing Blackheart."
Bentley's indie-leaning career choices have definitely been deliberate, though he's learned that not being a wide-eyed neophyte anymore has its benefits. "I don't think I've ever lost touch with the studios fully," Bentley says. "I just don't think -- I wasn't ready to exploit anything yet. So now I'm a little more open to ideas. I feel like now that I'm older, it's a little bit easier to, you know, to not get lost. They won't exploit you as much when you're a little bit older."
"I do [look normal] until you get to the end of the movie, kind of. He takes on a…form," Bentley spills. "But it's great CGI, incredible CGI! What we decided was that he needed to embody a human character to kind of drift through the world a little bit, to do what he wanted to do and if he looked completely strange, then…but he's the main bad guy, so we had to have him in there."
Check out the full report with Bentley over at RT.
Ghost Rider will open to theatres on February
16th.
For the movie poster, trailers, stills, video journals, set pics, movie info and synopsis,
go to the Ghost Rider
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