USA: Taylor Kitsch talks getting dirty for his starring role in sci-fi action movie 'John Carter'

Record ID: 220734

  • Title: USA: Taylor Kitsch talks getting dirty for his starring role in sci-fi action movie 'John Carter'
  • Date: 28th February 2012
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FEBRUARY 22, 2012) (REUTERS) ***CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** WIDE OF REGAL CINEMA VARIOUS OF "JOHN CARTER" MOVIE POSTER STAR TAYLOR KITSCH WALKING BY FANS, HANDING OUT T-SHIRTS VARIOUS OF TAYLOR KITSCH AND ACTOR WILLEM DAFOE POSING (SOUNDBITE) (English), TAYLOR KITSCH, STAR OF "JOHN CARTER," SAYING: "He's truly an everyday guy. I love that part of Carter. He's an everyday guy put in extraordinary circumstances, so that's probably the most endearing quality of him." SHOT OF TAYLOR KITSCH AND WILLEM DAFOE TALKING WITH REPORTERS (SOUNDBITE) (English), TAYLOR KITSCH, STAR OF "JOHN CARTER," SAYING: "I can't wait to have a shower and nap, that's what's going through my head. It was truly exhausting for me personally, I think it's very much that cliché that what you give is what you're going to get out of it and I think you guys are going to feel that energy on screen." WILLEM DAFOE SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS (SOUNDBITE) (English), WILLEM DAFOE, ACTOR IN "JOHN CARTER," SAYING: "I hope they enjoy it. It's dense enough, it's got a lot of interesting themes in it so I think different people are going to enjoy it for different things. That sounds suspicious when you hear that but when I see the movie I think, 'Wow, this has roots, this is not superficial, this addresses certain issues and has some interesting themes.'" WIDE OF CARPET WITH TAYLOR KITSCH AND WILLEM DAFOE ACTOR BRYAN CRANSTON TALKING WITH REPORTERS (SOUNDBITE) (English), BRYAN CRANSTON, ACTOR IN "JOHN CARTER," SAYING: "It's a fantastical movie. It's got special effects. I think people like science fiction because it imagines the unimaginable. It takes us to a place where 'No man has gone before,' where have I heard that? That's kind of the thing. We know this life and if you see a movie on relationships, you've seen that before told differently. But you can do almost anything in science fiction." BRYAN CRANSTON ON RED CARPET TAYLOR KITSCH TALKING WITH REPORTERS WIDE OF CARPET WITH ACTRESS LYNN COLLINS AND BRYAN CRANSTON TALKING TO REPORTERS (SOUNDBITE) (English), LYNN COLLINS, CO-STAR OF "JOHN CARTER," SAYING: "I would literally before every scene, would say to the universe, 'Help me channel and be the feminine archetype because I can't do this alone, I can't bring this power up alone.' So I did a lot of praying." FASHION SHOT OF ACTRESS LYNN COLLINS DIRECTOR ANDREW STANTON TALKING WITH REPORTERS (SOUNDBITE) (English), ANDREW STANTON, DIRECTOR OF "JOHN CARTER," SAYING: "I mean I was so used to talking to people for years on other movies about the look of the film, what the characters had to do, how we're supposed to frame things, and I've had those discussions for 20 years. I just now am doing it outside, under duress, under great heat, under great cold, so it was really just the physical stamina." WIDE OF RED CARPET
  • Embargoed: 14th March 2012 12:00
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  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVA9VJU40M78IHZ3HAS20TJV05NE
  • Story Text: Young heartthrob Taylor Kitsch wanted nothing more than to shower after his physically grueling role in action movie "John Carter." The 30-year-old star and his cast-mates hit the red carpet in Los Angeles Wednesday (February 22) night for its premiere.
    The Disney movie is based on classic novel, "A Princess of Mars," by Edgar Rice Burroughs (writer of the "Tarzan" series) and centers on ex-military captain John Carter, who finds a mysterious portal from Earth to Mars and becomes embroiled in a civil war that threatens to destroy the red planet.
    Kitsch, who stars as the war-weary protagonist, was also personally worn out for some of the more intense scenes.
    "I can't wait to have a shower and nap, that's what's going through my head," said Kitsch. "It was truly exhausting for me personally, I think it's very much that cliché that what you give is what you're going to get out of it and I think you guys are going to feel that energy on screen."
    The sci-fi flick marks Oscar-winning director and writer Andrew Stanton's directorial debut into live action. He won Best Animated Feature Oscars for "Wall-E" in 2008 and "Finding Nemo" in 2003, and has written screenplays for the "Toy Story" series, "Monster's Inc." and "A Bug's Life." The director deduced that only physical strains marked the difference between filming animation versus live action.
    "I mean I was so used to talking to people for years on other movies about the look of the film, what the characters had to do, how we're supposed to frame things, and I've had those discussions for 20 years," Stanton said. "I just now am doing it outside, under duress, under great heat, under great cold, so it was really just the physical stamina."
    "John Carter" opens in theaters on March 9.
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