Hier ein kurzer Ausschnitt vom Interview. So schreibt Moviehole u.a.: [..] Was this a character that was just irresistible for you to play on so many levels?
GRACE: Yeah, on so many levels. One I'm a huge fan of the first 2 films. I thought the 2nd one was better than the 1st which is so rare. It's clear that they have this well-oiled machine and they know exactly what they're doing. The actors and Sam. On another level I was a really big fan when I was a kid of the comic book. Literally when the character of Venom was being born, I was getting really into comic books reading Todd McFarland who was this new illustrator and was kind of blowing my mind and he was doing Amazing Spiderman and he did like his own Spiderman comic book, so I felt like I had the inside track and no one else should play it. In fact when Sam told me, he said I want you to play Venom, I kind of had to bite my tongue and say “like tell me about the character” and I hadn't negotiated yet for money yet so.
This is a pretty big departure from other characters that you’ve played.
GRACE: Right. I'm a bad actor to answer this question because I know with my career I should be like yes, I had to go to such a dark place and really get into that but you know I think it's all on the same plane all that stuff, happiness, sadness, being mean and being nice. They're all very close to each other. But I'll tell you my goal in my career is to kind of do movies that are both--I hate it when someone says is it a comedy or a drama? It's like my favorite movies are kind of both, just like life is never like one day you're not crying all day and the next day laughing all day. I like to find characters that have that kind of balance too.
So you're the 1st person I've talked to that really has a comic book background that thinks that....
GRACE: Am I though? My favorite thing is when someone gets a role on Star Wars or something and is like I've never seen the films before but I rented them once I got the role. You know, I don't know, whatever, maybe I'm the first.
Everyone's said I never read the comic after the fact.
GRACE: Right. That's what I'm saying. But I'm the geekest guy to ever be in a film like this that's for sure in terms of when we were at Comic-Con and they showed that preview where I turn into Venom at the end. I was jumping around backstage. Someone actually came up to me and was like “hey, man you've got to cool it. You're starring in these films you shouldn't this crazy excited.” But I figured screw it. This is why you buy the bus ticket to Hollywood right?
Did you take any souvenirs from the set being that you are…
GRACE: Oh, man I forgot to. It was like a year long process making the film so you don't ever know when it's ending exactly. I think I'm going to try to get the newspaper of me getting whatever fired where they print the retraction on it and I must try to get a bust of Venom. [..]
GRACE: Yeah, on so many levels. One I'm a huge fan of the first 2 films. I thought the 2nd one was better than the 1st which is so rare. It's clear that they have this well-oiled machine and they know exactly what they're doing. The actors and Sam. On another level I was a really big fan when I was a kid of the comic book. Literally when the character of Venom was being born, I was getting really into comic books reading Todd McFarland who was this new illustrator and was kind of blowing my mind and he was doing Amazing Spiderman and he did like his own Spiderman comic book, so I felt like I had the inside track and no one else should play it. In fact when Sam told me, he said I want you to play Venom, I kind of had to bite my tongue and say “like tell me about the character” and I hadn't negotiated yet for money yet so.
This is a pretty big departure from other characters that you’ve played.
GRACE: Right. I'm a bad actor to answer this question because I know with my career I should be like yes, I had to go to such a dark place and really get into that but you know I think it's all on the same plane all that stuff, happiness, sadness, being mean and being nice. They're all very close to each other. But I'll tell you my goal in my career is to kind of do movies that are both--I hate it when someone says is it a comedy or a drama? It's like my favorite movies are kind of both, just like life is never like one day you're not crying all day and the next day laughing all day. I like to find characters that have that kind of balance too.
So you're the 1st person I've talked to that really has a comic book background that thinks that....
GRACE: Am I though? My favorite thing is when someone gets a role on Star Wars or something and is like I've never seen the films before but I rented them once I got the role. You know, I don't know, whatever, maybe I'm the first.
Everyone's said I never read the comic after the fact.
GRACE: Right. That's what I'm saying. But I'm the geekest guy to ever be in a film like this that's for sure in terms of when we were at Comic-Con and they showed that preview where I turn into Venom at the end. I was jumping around backstage. Someone actually came up to me and was like “hey, man you've got to cool it. You're starring in these films you shouldn't this crazy excited.” But I figured screw it. This is why you buy the bus ticket to Hollywood right?
Did you take any souvenirs from the set being that you are…
GRACE: Oh, man I forgot to. It was like a year long process making the film so you don't ever know when it's ending exactly. I think I'm going to try to get the newspaper of me getting whatever fired where they print the retraction on it and I must try to get a bust of Venom. [..]
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