Sam Worthington talks ‘Wrath of the Titans’ script, character, getting ‘weighty’
While promoting his new film, The Debt, actor Sam Worthington spoke about Wrath of the Titans, the follow-up to Clash of the Titans, and how the Avatar star’s career has changed.
“…If you get something like Avatar, it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors. But there was a thing my mate told me years ago, when I said, ‘Oh, there’s a great independent script and a great blockbuster script, and the independent thing will show me off more as a character.’ He said, ‘But which movie would you go and see?’ He said, ‘You go see blockbusters.’ And that’s how I pick. I pick which movie by ‘would I want to go see something like The Debt?’ Or, ‘Do I want to see something like Terminator (Salvation)?’ And within that, you kind of by chance end up with a career that balances…”
Worthington then gives fans a hint that more drama is coming in Wrath.
“You make Clash 2 weighty. Clash 1 is a video game. You make Clash 2 weighty. You take everything you’ve learned, and go, I’m not doing this f–ing sh*t! I’m going to do a weighty script in a blockbuster. That’s the bigness of a blockbuster. They’re very hard because they’re done by such a machine, so you try to get that weight that an independent can allow you, that freedom that they have on an independent script, and then you try to fit it into a blockbuster where there’s a whole set of people who have a say. With something like Clash 2, that’s definitely what we’ve aimed for. And that’s all I really want to say on that.”
He talked about his character, developing the script: “You do it all of the way through. You sit down with the studio, you sit down with the character, you sit down with everybody and have a whole different look at how we’re going to handle it. But that’s the hard thing about making blockbusters, because they’re just churning them out; they give you five months and the date’s already pre-planned for the next year. There’s a speed on it. But if you can get that weight and gravity into a blockbuster, even into the character – I’ve let slip myself a couple of times – but that’s going to be changing. You’ve got to work a bit harder, I find. Blockbusters aren’t necessarily as easy as you think.”
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Wrath of the Titans is planned to hit theaters on March 20, 2012.