The genre Uma Thurman avoided like the plague for 20 years: “I did other stuff”
She made an active decision.
Action Movies
The scathing review that made Charles Bronson threaten a critic: “I’ll get that man”
Was absolutely furious about a seemingly innocuous opinion
Jason Statham’s greatest on-screen kill, according to Jason Statham: “That’s a pretty gruesome one”
A career spent perfecting the art of seeing off bad guys
“It wasn’t Dostoevsky”: the character Patrick Swayze said he was “built to be”
“I could race anything”.
The “offensive” movie Bruce Willis refused to apologise for: “It made a point”
An early ’90s comedy thriller with plenty of blood
The Vin Diesel role almost played by Steven Seagal: “He saved me from a fate worse than death”
Could have meant years in the wilderness for Diesel
The scene that almost killed Billy Bob Thornton: “I couldn’t feel the right side of my body”
Billy Bob: Action Man? I think not.
The terrible movie Kevin Costner turned down “two or three times” but made anyway
Probably should have trusted your gut on this one, Kev.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s favourite action movies: “Kind of unparalleled”
The man has always been a low-key action junkie.