Jackson Fought In The Spirit
February 15th, 2008 | by admin |Original Post here: Snikkkt!
Source: Scifi.com
Samuel L. Jackson, who co-stars in Frank Miller’s upcoming big-screen version of Will Eisner’s classic superhero comic The Spirit, said that he had very real fight scenes opposite star Gabriel Macht, even though they performed against green screens.
“Gabriel and I fight all the time,” Jackson told reporters. “I fight with the Spirit. We had choreographed fights. We did them, and there’s no imagination. The big green is just for what the setting is, what the city looks like, for the mudflats where we’re at, and not for things that are coming at you.”
Jackson plays the supervillain The Octopus opposite Macht’s hero, Denny Colt/The Spirit. “And I had some pretty big guns,” Jackson said with a laugh. “Nice big guns.”
Miller is shooting The Spirit using some of the same techniques he and co-director Robert Rodriguez employed in Sin City: real actors against computer-generated environments.
“Acting in the big green room is like being a kid in your room by yourself, and you just imagine all this stuff jumping out at you, and you fight it until you get tired,” Jackson said.
Jackson’s biggest experience with such filming came in the Star Wars films, in which he played Jedi knight Mace Windu. “You turn your own music on,” he said. “It’s ‘Dun-dun-duh, dun-dun-duh,’ and you just go for it. The more stuff you can do, the more stuff they have to draw around you.”
The Spirit also stars Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes, Jaime King and Paz Vega. It opens in early 2009. –Ian Spelling
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