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On The Voice He Uses As Sinestro:
I'm trying to keep it rooted and doing an English accent, because, you know, we can all communicate through the ring, so it theoretically doesn't matter how you speak, but that's another thing that in my very long answer I was trying to get across which is the idea that I'm trying to create a guy that's worthy of this look. You know, you can’t sort of walk around in a normal and talk in a normal way. It's not quite as effective as giving it some weight, so I'm trying to just use my own kind of base tones and give him a strong voice.
On Whether We See The Beginning Of Sinestro's Descent Into Evil:
I mean, he's an alien, you know, and in the movie, you have to decide, as an actor, how you're going to give a character like that presence. You can't really move and walk and talk like yourself. It's not enough -- you know, this creates something, so you have to find something of that, and so any back story and all of that is always useful, and the knowledge that Sinestro goes where he goes to is useful. But I'm trying not to foreshadow it.
But, having said all of that, he has a kind of a presence which is undeniably strong, so you -- what I'm trying to create is he goes to the dark side, not because he's inherently evil, but because he is a kind of control freak, a bit dictatorial militaristic guy who wants to keep order, so, for him, all that happens is that just -- you know, it's like a revolving circle.
I think that probably prefigures, and you will see in there that he's a guy that you don’t mess with who could easily go the other way.
On Whether He's Hesitant To Explore Sinestro's Dark Side In Future Movies:
No, I have to say, all these villains, they're all great parts. I just want to play them, you know. I can't imagine myself sitting at home going, no, that's too many villains, no. I'm going to sit at home and wait for a musical or something.
They're just too interesting to play, and, anyway, you know, I love Sinestro in this first one, because what you get is a sense of a man who is in control of this incredible corps that has an immense amount of strength and confidence and arrogance, but nevertheless has a grudging respect by the end of the movie for this new Lantern.
On The Fight Between Hal Jordan And Sinestro Glimpsed In The Trailer:
Well, it's fascinating, because you can't just rely on the traditional methods of weapon fighting like you do in most movies. You've now got imagination coming into play, and the fight with Hal is really interesting, because the constructs -- we also decided -- Sinestro, because he's so evolved, basically used constructs for the whole fight.
But there was a decision taken we that wanted to get physical, you know, just get in there and get physical, and, ironically, Hal's constructs are very earthbound. They’re very naïve. They're very new Lantern, you know, very--he might--he could create anything. He just comes up with swords and guns you know, so it’s fascinating. They have this fight which is a mixture of, you know, physical fighting, sword fighting and also evolving constructs, and we rehearsed that as you do a normal fight, and you just imagine those constructs when you're throwing them at each other.
On Whether He'll Be Back For The Sequel:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, very much so. I think that was always the deal. That, if it was successful, that there is such a vast amount of source material, that there's plenty of storylines they can investigate.
With an all star cast which includes Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, Blake Lively as Carol Ferris and Mark Strong as Sinestro, director Martin Campbell's
Green Lantern is set to be released in 3D on June 17, later this year!