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 Eric Bana
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime While many of the greatest acting talents of the silver screen are inarguably often also hugely popular with audiences, there is the occasional few that tend to slip by the Hollywood radar. One such actor is Eric Bana. Born, bred, and beloved in Australia, Bana has proven to be an actor of enormous potential. Despite a still fairly low profile here in America, he has already proven his considerable mettle in films such as Black Hawk Down, The Hulk, Troy, and Munich. Bana continues his slow and steady rise into the Hollywood stratosphere with his latest role as king Henry VIII in the film adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s novel The Other Boleyn Girl. The now 39-year old actor has garnered a reputation from critics as a performer with incredible levels of conviction and depth and shared with us how dedicated he was in his coveted role as Henry VIII. “I lived as Henry VIII for three straight months prior to starting this film,” Eric recalls, “I informed all my family and friends that I was Henry VIII for them to act accordingly. I read the script and I really felt passionately for this man that was the center of the story, the fact that he was the king and that he was Henry VIII was almost secondary to me. I just was really drawn to the drama and to the shenanigans surrounding this fellow.” “When I met with Justin [Chadwick], the director, I said look, I never envisioned myself as someone playing a king or Henry VIII or anybody,” he continues, “I said Henry, the guy, the man in this script, I said, I just think I can get to the core of him and I want to play him just as a man. That’s all I know. So I just used that. I didn’t get too bogged down in history or any of that stuff because I felt like at the core of it, it was kind of irrelevant.” To our shock, Eric claims that his dedication is so strong that he even resorts to cloistering himself from seeing other movies to keep focused. “The one thing I definitely didn’t do was watch a single film,” he admits, “I had a lot of people go, oh, you got to check out so-and-so and absolutely, not to this day, I still haven’t. I will eventually, but, no, I find that stuff way too dangerous and too much of an influence, so I didn’t look at anything to be honest. I, then, read a lot of stuff just personally because it’s more interesting as a person and not just as an actor, then when you go into the film, it’s a lot more interesting than the day-to-day stuff and I loved it.” Remembered dominantly in British history as a man obsessed with obtaining a male heir by marrying more than once, Henry VIII is a figure that continues to be controversial. Bana says his responsibility as an actor is not to embrace ... |
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