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"One thing I’ve kind of found is a prevalent theme in comic book movies and in books is that characters seem to, there seem to be a lot of father issues. In this film it’s kind of two-headed, because you have both Hal and Hector kind of affected by it. I was wondering if maybe you could talk about why you think that is."
"I think it’s interesting, because boys are usually the central characters and I guess boys frequently have issues with their fathers. Also you think of the era that a lot of these comic books were coming out of and the way that the role that men had in the sort of family life, it was sort of more satellite during that time. I think a lot more people had daddy issues then."
"Just kind of bridging off of that, obviously Hector, and even before he goes through his transformation, is a bit disturbed, and a lot of that aggression is toward his father, but obviously the infection by Parallax allows him to act on his impulse. Do you think that if he hadn’t actually been infected, would it have come out eventually?"
"No, I think it’s sort of one of the greatest things that’s ever happened to him in his life. He needed to express himself. This gave him the ability to express himself. I really always wanted the event that happens of him getting infected to be something that was both things, a negative thing and a positive thing at the same time"
"I guess, because he is a psychologically driven character, how would you personally get into him, what kind of research did you do, did you look inwardly at all?"
Yeah, I mean, you know. It’s always hard to say where things come from, sometimes they just come kind of impulsively. I’m an actor that acts on impulse a lot of the time, but I did think about the creatures that he was studying, about what his job was, I sort of thought that said a lot about him. You know, that he was studying these creatures that live in hostile environments. He’s a kid who grew up in a hostile environment. I also thought of him as somebody who was fourteen, like an adolescent, and so I just tried to get in touch with being an adolescent."
"There is actually, just getting back to the comics, there is a pretty significant change between the comics and this take on the character. Obviously, for example, Ryan Reynolds, there’s a history of kind of how he got it, but for example, Hector Hammond in this isn’t a petty criminal, so did you find that more freeing? Did you wish that there was more of that professor kind of background for the character?"
"For me, the story that Martin wanted to tell is the only story that I concerned myself with. It’s not my job to decide which of the source material winds up in the movie, and a movie this big, the actors don’t decide that type of thing. So I guess what was on the page, and I was aware of all the different versions of what Hector had gone through, but let’s put it this way, Heath’s Joker, I didn’t see any, there’s no Joker like that in any of the Batman comics. You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, “No, but it’s got to have this.” In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl."
Green Lantern will be released in theaters everywhere tomorrow.
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