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 "Peter Berg and I did a few scenes in Smoking Aces, a Joe Carnahan movie," Bateman says. "And Joe wrote this great monologue, and after doing it for a few hours, he said, why don't you get a little looser with the lines and make up some stuff? And I started to make Peter laugh a lot that day. So I guess he saw that I could talk on my feet, or improvise a bit, and I guess he figured that would be perfect for this part." Bateman's goal was to provide some comic relief without undermining the drama of The Kingdom, which deals with U.S. agents investigating a bombing in Saudi Arabia. "There were a handful of lines written for the character in the movie, but none of the lines were particularly funny, I don't think the character was meant to be funny, but [Berg] figured that bringing some levity could be helpful in this. So I did have to every day kind of be on my toes and find moments to crack wise, but I had to be mindful that this is a drama. I had Jamie and Chris on one side, with a couple of Oscars, and Jenny's got her Golden Globe, and there's this jeopardy that we're trying to maintain in this movie, so let's not be an idiot." A bit further into the movie, the jokes stop abruptly when Bateman's character is kidnapped. "I kept asking my wife to tie me up; I just wanted to know how it feels, but she wasn't game for that," he says, shrugging and grinning. "But the fact that my character gets kidnapped just sort of dictated how I played my character up until that point. One wants the audience to really have a lot of empathy for this character once he gets kidnapped, because it's this final act of drama and jeopardy. So as much as I was being a smartass in the first part of the film I tried to make him likable too, so people would care that he's bound and gagged. That was fun." The kidnapping actually ended up being quite helpful for Bateman play the character. "Originally my character didn't get kidnapped, so there was a little less of a purpose for him to be in the movie. And it was just the way that I work, I kind of work backwards from the ending, I look at the finish line and then try to work backwards so that by the time we get to the finish line, it's more rewarding...It was easy, I mean, my mouth was taped for thirty pages of the script. That wasn't ... |
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