Los Angeles Film Festival: Exclusive Interview with Artist in Residence and 'Wanted' Star Common
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Friday, June 20, 2008
HW: Those two directors, Tarantino and Michel Gondry, operate on a whole other plane. Are you interested in doing movies like that?
Common: I would love to do something like that. Both of those movies were groundbreaking and innovative. Both of them got, though they weren't probably the blockbuster movie of that year they still both got recognized by the Oscars. So these are movies that were done with progressive qualities and creative qualities, but still got recognized by the masses and by those that give out honors and awards for movies.
HW: You get to play an assassin called the Gunsmith in your new movie Wanted. Was he included in the graphic novel?
Common: The Gunsmith wasn't in the comic book. In the script he was written as one of the fraternity members that was there to support and really help train Wesley (James McAvoy). From that I created a back story and created a story of who The Gunsmith was and where he came from and he ended up being this really like spiritual warrior in a way. He was very calm, but still a force. He was obviously a master of weaponry, taking guns apart and putting them back together and creating these new weapons using guns and artillery. So he was a master of that, but was also a Buddha like person, a Buddha type character that was calm and serene and when it was time for war then he'd be there to fight. He can handle his business. You know the people that are really focused and they'll only kill you when they need to, Samurai's.
Photo: James McAvoy, Common and Angelina Jolie (Universal)