Exclusive: Q&A with 'Wanted' Star James McAvoy
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
HW: You’ve had such an incredible run of movies including this one. What is your secret? Is it the scripts, directors, cast attached?
JM: Just the scripts really and also, I just did a film called Last Station after Wanted and that’s the first film I’ve gotten from a straight offer. So even Wanted and Atonement and Last King of Scotland I had to audition to get all those roles. So it wasn’t really about choosing those jobs, because if they hadn’t given me the parts after the auditions my plan and my strategy would have been out the window [laughs].
HW: Was this a part you’d normally go out for? How did you get involved?
JM: I read [the script] and thought this is ridiculous. There is no way I should be doing this. This isn’t the kind of stuff that I do and this isn’t really the kind of thing that people accept me doing so it was weird, it was very strange…I met the director and saw some of his previous works and started to get really excited about it and excited about the idea of them casting against type. And also about them making a movie that wasn’t a typical action movie that is for kids and adults alike, it is just for adults…with such a strong sense of cynical and ironic humor. I thought all these things combined to make it something new.