The scene that almost killed Antonio Banderas: “We were playing with our lives”
Playing with fire.
Action Movies
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.
Jason Statham hated working with co-star Natalya Rudakova: “Some hairdresser off the street”
Not a fan of the inexperience.
The “perfect” film Guillermo del Toro called America’s “first real action movie”
Del Toro has a theory that US action cinema began here.
