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Paul Giamatti Comes Packin' to Discuss Shoot 'Em Up
By Ryan Parsons | Image property of New Line Cinema.
Shoot 'Em Up
Paul Giamatti on Shoot 'Em Up
"It was all so tightly controlled you knew exactly what you were going to do, which is nice in a way," said Giamatti. "You just have to follow the map through once it’s drawn out, so never felt difficult particularly. Everything was fun and I was getting to do a lot of stuff I never got to do before. Break his fingers and stuff, it was great. I loved doing all that stuff. No, it never felt difficult. He really had a lot more of the difficult stuff. Those stunts have been a nightmare in a lot of ways."
On the quirky side, this villain keeps taking phone calls from his wife, handling her like she's interrupted a meeting. "Workaholic, doesn’t see his family enough. Loves his job. Loves his family. Loves his job more. That kind of stuff. It was just fun. I really had a good time, but it never felt hard particularly. But that again, was because that guy was so prepared. It could have been a nightmare, I’m sure. I mean, I’ve worked on other much action movies where I didn’t have as much to do and it was really boring and hard and a nightmare, but this one moved so fast."
Owen does most of the shooting in the film but Giamatti still got to handle some big guns at the firing range. "We did a little bit, mostly just shooting blanks and stuff like that. They wouldn’t let me shoot any live ammunition. I wanted to fire that sniper rifle, but they wouldn’t let me fire anything for real. I really wanted to shoot live ammo out of that thing. I wanted to hear that thing go. It was great, I loved the sniper rifle! I could not get enough of that thing. Smooth action on that thing. That thing was amazing. I loved that. And I got to pick which one I wanted to use, so I picked the all black one, because I thought that cooler. But I loved that thing. It was amazing. That gun is just amazing."
Getting rigged up with squibs and padding was also fun for the actor. "I kind of enjoyed all of it. There is a crazy thing where I try to kill him with a piece of a mirror running down a hall screaming. That was fun. I liked getting shot. I got shot a bunch of times which was great. I liked getting hit, punched and knocked over. I mean, the stunting kind of stuff was fun. I didn’t have that much of it to do, but I really liked sort of getting hit in the head and stuff like that. It was great. I loved it."
One can imagine the fate of the villain at the end of Shoot 'Em Up, but don't count Giamatti out of the sequel. "If this does alright, [writer/director] Michael [Davis] has an idea for another one, but it wouldn’t be the same character. It would be a different guy."
Shoot 'Em Up opens to theaters tomorrow, September 7th.
For the trailer, stills and more movie info, go to the Shoot 'Em Up Movie Page.
Ryan Parsons
Sources: Image property of New Line Cinema.
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