In an interview with The LA Times, the actor who will play Green Hornet in the movie of the same name next January, showed off his comic book credentials in an interview where he made it clear that he's a bonafide fan of the genre and feels the pain of those who cringed at the sight of Barakapool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine!
On His Love Of Comic Books:
"I hang out at a lot of comic book stores so that smell to me is genuine. The musk of the nerd reading the page. I loved comic books. But I don't like, keep them. If I did, I'd have so many...I tend to collect things already and there are so many things that I have. Comic books are hard to justify. So mostly I read them once then I tried to give them to other people. I started reading them in 1980s and they were not really worth anything because they were so mass-produced by that point and everyone was saving them by then. If I started earlier before there were infinite amounts of all of them..."
On His Favourite Marvel Characters:
"I always loved Punisher. And I remember when Deadpool came out I loved that because he was funny. He was kind of crazy and funny and it was super-violent. It was like Frank Castle but he was funny. Or it was like Spider-Man if he was murdering people and wisecracking."
On How He Feels About Deadpool's Portrayal In X-Men Origins: Wolverine:
"When I was watching this last X-Men movie, at the end they sewed up his mouth and I was like, 'What the hell are they doing?' Evan Goldberg, my writing partner and I will still talk about that; we'll be driving and just say, 'I can't believe they sewed up Deadpool's mouth.' I mean, why would you do that? 'We'll take a character known for his wisecracks and saying funny stuff and we'll just lose that entire aspect of him.' He's called the 'Merc with the Mouth.' I mean, that's what they call him."
And As For DC:
"I like Marvel. I've kind of given up on DC at this point."
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