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 Ashton Kutcher
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime
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The now 28 year-old Ashton Kutcher, already starting to flex his dramatic talents in 2004 in the successful sci-fi/thriller The Butterfly Effect, is ready to go even further in the new Andrew Davis-directed action/drama The Guardian, which opens September 29, 2006 in theatres. In the film, he takes his furthest departure yet from his established stereotype as neophyte United States Coast Guard rescue swimmer Jake Fischer, teaming up with Kevin Costner as his former-teacher-turned-teammate Ben Randall. “I think I like doing movies that make me a little uncomfortable,” Kutcher claims, “You’re growing. If you don’t like speaking in public, stand up and say something. That’s how you grow. So, for me, when I started this movie, I went, ‘OK, this is a little uncomfortable. I never done anything that is going to require this much physical output and this kind of dramatic output, so let me do it.’ And hopefully, the audience will catch up to where I was uncomfortable and go, ‘Yeah, I’m a little uncomfortable about seeing him in this role. I don’t know if he’s going to pull.’ Hopefully, it’s close enough to people that they can go, ‘I’ll give it a shot and take a look.’ Ashton notes just how different indeed Jake Fischer’s character was from the lovable dim-wit, Ken-doll-like-perfection of his Michael Kelso character. “I had a day and a half to prepare for the character and memorize four pages of monologues,” he explained, “The character’s a drug dealer that doesn’t have any friends. Going to the space of a guy who’s not getting invited to the party is an uncomfortable place to go to for yourself, because we’ve all been there.” Ashton went further to explain the admittedly hilarious lengths he’d go to make his character believably troubled: “I didn’t shower for three days when I did it,” claimed Kutcher, “I felt like that guy probably hadn’t had a shower in a while, so I wanted to see what I would do if he walked in and smelled me.” However, he wasn’t only willing to push himself to the emotional depths of his role as a Coast Guard swimmer, but the physical ones as well. “We did a lot of preparation just to even get ready to play at their level,” Ashton reflects, “I trained for about eight months before the movie. They’re tough guys. We did a two-week boot camp…and just imagine going through |
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