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 The hardest part of training was something unanticipated but, now that you mention it, perfectly logical: "It was really hard for me to stop blinking whenever I shot a gun, which I've heard is hard for a lot of people." Ultimately, the training wasn't too insane simply because for the first half of the film, McAvoy's supposed to be a weakling. "I was never Conan the Barbarian," he says. "There's no point in casting me in this film if you're just going to ask me to become completely different. And the strength of casting me is, you look at me in the beginning of the film and think, really? This guy's really going to do all the things we saw in the trailer?" Last year, McAvoy appeared in two period pieces - Atonement and Becoming Jane. The year before, he starred in the Oscar-baiting The Last King of Scotland. Given his frequently highbrow choices, you might think he'd look down on a silly action flick like Wanted. But while he hesitantly admits that action isn't his favorite genre, his full answer is, in typical fashion, very diplomatic. "I do like a really good action film," he says. "When action movies are bad, it can feel like being at the dentist. But when they're good, they're really fun. I think the last one I really enjoyed was Mission: Impossible-3 of all things, because J.J. Abrams did a great job of making you care and making you feel scared. If you drop somebody off of a building, but don't do it well as a director, nobody will care." Still, he's quick to mention that he doesn't necessarily flock to more serious fare, either. "I find it very hard to watch something like Atonement, only because I get very emotionally connected to that character, still, and what happens to him is so incredibly awful," he says. The frequent beatings his character gets in Wanted, by contrast, hardly reach the levels of high tragedy: "Lots of bad stuff happens to me, but it becomes kind of hilarious watching me do those [stunts], and being made to look so much cooler than I could ever possibly be." For all the angles about McAvoy's rise to stardom, though -- if he's a credible Action Hero or whether he has Heartthrob Status among teenage girls or blah blah -- when it ... |
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