FILM-MAN FROM UNCLE Cavill and Hammer on The Man from UNCLE

Record ID: 144577

  • Title: FILM-MAN FROM UNCLE Cavill and Hammer on The Man from UNCLE
  • Date: 10th August 2015
  • Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (AUGUST 7, 2015) (REUTERS) RITCHIE TALKING TO MEDIA LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (RECENT) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) GUY RITCHIE, DIRECTOR, ON DAVID BECKHAM'S CAMEO, SAYING: "He was deliberately not easy to spot although he's conspicuously on camera. We called him up three days before, I think I'd just recently done a commercial with
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  • Story Text: The star of a new movie based on the 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. said he didn't watch the original show as he wanted to create something fresh.
    Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer play two rival superspies, working for the KGB and CIA respectively, who are forced to put aside their differences and join forces to stop a mysterious criminal organization bent on developing nuclear weapons and technology.
    "I did not personally (watch the show) because I did not want to try to subconsciously start imitating someone else's performance. We are doing a different thing. As much as we have elements in this movie which people who watch the TV show will appreciate, it's for a new generation as well. And so if you start imitating that kind of thing then you will create something which will alienate the modern generation," Cavill said.
    Hammer, who plays KGB agent Kuraykin, replete with prominent Russian accent, said that because the movie is set in the sixties, his training regime for playing the stunt-filled role was not as arduous as normal.
    "You know in the sixties people didn't work out the same. They weren't going for 'oh you know I have to have the perfect six pack and my pecs have to be this big and oh my arms need to be this diameter'. There's none of that, it's the sixties, if you could run a mile and not die then you were in shape," he said.
    The movie, which also stars Alicia Vikander and Hugh Grant, features a fleeting cameo from David Beckham, a friend of director Guy Ritchie.
    Richie explained that the football star's screen-time is not made too obvious.
    "He was deliberately not easy to spot although he's conspicuously on camera," Richie explained. "We called him up three days before, I think I'd just recently done a commercial with him or something, and I said 'Do you fancy being in the movie?' and he said 'Yeah OK alright then' so we stuck him in and he plays a Russian, so he's in there somewhere, I am not going to tell you where."
    The action comedy is released in the UK on August 14.
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