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Common on Wanted
By Fred Topel | Images property Universal Pictures
Wanted
Common continues to blaze a trail in Hollywood as he solidifies his acting career. His latest film, Wanted, casts the musician as The Gunsmith, part of a fraternity of super assassins. They also don't talk much so he has to convey everything physically.
Common is Wanted
"I'm just really doing my best to really become the character," said Common. "If the character’s alive, he’s alive. If you really do as much research as you can to create this who this person is and really know who the character is and know who the Gunsmith would be with or without saying things, then that energy and that presence is going to be there. That’s the most important thing I can do, just really know who the core of my character is. At any given time they also would also give you lines or take out a scene so it was like, if you are that character you don’t have a problem when the lines come to you, you do them. In a way, you still are that character, looking at somebody or putting a gun together."
Common really is becoming an actor. He's learned to create his own backstory when it is not provided in the script. "I definitely created something where the Gunsmith eventually became a person who was like a samurai in a way. He was a master of weaponry and definitely a warrior, but also this calm Buddha-like character. That’s why, without words, you could see things going on with him. He was perceptive and his energy was really more about trying to get James [McAvoy] to become a good warrior as well as learning these guns and techniques, but it was like teaching him to become a good warrior, so that’s where the backstory of the Gunsmith, for me, came from."
There was a language issue on set too, as Russian director Timur Bekmambetov barely speaks English. " I felt like I was being directed by a crazy Russian genius. He was high-energy, very creative, very spontaneous. I was like, ‘Man, this dude is a great artist.’ He was describing to me, he would say, ‘When the bullet curves, this is gonna happen…’ You listen to him there but you don’t know it’s gonna look that good or be that incredible. So he’s a visual genius. You listen to him say it but you don’t know it’s gonna look that good or be that incredible. He already saw these things happening and saw how he could do it. I liked the fact that he was open to listening to what we believed our characters would be. He was open to us coming and making changes. He would make changes on the spot. It’s probably not the producers dream to have a director be like, ‘Oh, I want to do this, do that.' Eventually, he came out with an incredible product. "
Common only wishes he got to do more in the film. "I wanted more stunts. I wanted more. I would have been glad to be able to tell you, ‘Yeah, I busted my elbow.' I wanted more stunts. I was like, ‘Man, when am I getting a good fighting scene as the Gunsmith?’ But, true to the character, I guess, they didn’t really show that element of him, that aspect of him but I’m looking forward to doing some stunts in whatever film I do."
Wanted is out in theaters now.
For the trailers, movie stills, posters, review and more movie info, go to the Wanted Movie Page.
Fred Topel
Sources: Images property Universal Pictures
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