Latino Review has just posted an article covering their on set visit to
Green Lantern in New Orleans back in August. Included in this report is an in depth interview with actor Mark Strong who we are all aware portrays Sinestro in the upcoming film. While much of the interview is information that we have gathered in bits and pieces over that last 6 months, there are plenty of new tidbits to read about. Below are a few excerpts from the interview pertaining to Strong's ability to play so many different villains. He also discusses the difference between the character of Sinestro in
Green Lantern and Matai Shang in the upcoming
John Carter of Mars due out next year.
Did you have any trepidation taking on another comic book villain?
I definitely thought about it because how often can you play something that shares its DNA with other characters before it either becomes uninteresting to me and to an audience or you hit a dead end with variation of what one could introduce to the character. But it didn’t bother me because--- I suppose if you were playing a leading man you have the same problem. Harrison Ford is essentially the same in every movie he’s in, but it doesn’t cause us any problems because it’s the story that’s important and the place of the character within the narrative of that story that’s important. And if the story and the film are successful and work, you won’t be considering that and I don’t consider that. I take everything on its own merits…so I considered it, but it doesn’t bother me at all.
Having just done John Carter of Mars, was there any technical stuff you picked up on doing that sci-fi film that you’re able to apply here?
It’s ironic never having played an alien in my life, like buses, two have come along at once. It’s unbelievable…but they are different and similar because they occupy a place in the film, which needs them to be---they’re similar in a sense that they are both kind of introduced in the first movie and if the franchises go to more, they will become more omnipotent in both. The similarities and differences are that Sinestro is incredibly physical character whereas Matai Shang in John Carter is very cerebral. He ex---your not even sure if he exists and the characters on Mars aren’t sure if he exists either. In fact they’re consider to be a race, a godlike race that nobody knows whether they really exist. The truth is they are parasitic race, they travel the universe, mining worlds for their own particular reasons, so it’s in their interest to stay hidden. So he’s a very calm, very wise, knowledgeable, very peaceful omnipotent character. Sinestro, I think, is much more visceral, much more physical so….there was nothing in their alienness that I could use to differentiate them. It was just those characters happened to be aliens.
Hawksblueyes: This was taken from an extremely long, in depth interview and to read it in it's entirety at Latino Review click on the link at the bottom of the page.
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