![]() ![]() ![]() Who can make who crack? That’s kinda what the game was.ĭoes it differ greatly from what they started with at the beginning of production?ĬHEADLE: I think the first assembly of the movie was three-hours long, so yeah there’s a lot of stuff that isn’t in there that would have been there before. Can you tell us your favorite moment/line that you guys came up with on the spot?ĬHEADLE: I can’t even remember the written lines, I’m definitely not going to be able to remember all of our improvs! It was constantly Downey and I trying to break each other up the whole time. They both know that the big job is trying to marry these very real aspects of the filmmaking with the technical CGI and all the greenscreen, and to that end we’re all trying to wrap our arms around it together.Īt this point everyone knows that these movies involve a fair amount of improv. We didn’t have to pull the writer in when we started tugging and pulling on the strands in the script, Shane was right there and Drew was there too. Shane having penned this one was a little different, you know. What are the key differences between their styles as filmmakers?ĬHEADLE: When we do these movies the director and all of us are just kinda hanging on for dear life. This time you have a new director, and Shane Black and Jon Favreau actually have a lot in common: They both started as actors, branched out into screenwriting, eventually became directors in their own right. Not really, but I figured you had to approve all that stuff, but maybe you don’t!ĬHEADLE: No, the image for the toy is one thing I need to approve, but other than that I think somewhere I signed my life away and they just make as many pieces of stuff as they want. I was not anticipating that, I never saw that happening in my “career,” but it’s kinda funny. What’s the weirdest piece of merch you’ve seen with your face on it?ĬHEADLE: Anything with my face on it that’s a piece of merchandise is pretty weird. Right, and political commentary or not these films exist to sell toys. You could be dead-on, I never really made that connection that strongly. I think you could read those things into it and I wouldn’t say you’re necessarily wrong but that feels to me like… it could be read that way but I dunno, that’s not necessarily the intention, but yes there’s always an aspect of these movies that’s a bit tongue-in-cheek and trying to take the air out of things. It’s there to be a big summer tentpole movie. This guy with all these weapons operating autonomously from the government, and then there’s all the anti-military industrial complex/clean energy stuff.ĬHEADLE: Basically they’re entertainment. These movies have always walked a fine-line between being a right wing and left wing fantasy. The President wanted it to be strong, I don’t think we play it for yucks, but that could be your takeaway for sure, why not? It’s explained in the movie as being a rebrand. I didn’t see it as being that serious in terms of a parody that was happening. Is it fair to say that the Iron Patriot armor, as it’s represented in the film, is almost poking fun at American ra-ra jingoism?ĬHEADLE: I imagine you could say that. It’s nice to be in an action movie and actually be in the physical action. What aspects of Colonel Rhodes make him a hero even when his toys get taken away?ĭON CHEADLE: It was a lot of fun to run around and be the action dude and play with the stunt team and fly on wires, all that stuff. You and Robert spend a good deal of screentime outside your suits in this one. ![]() We got to chat 1-on-1 with the actor about this latest “Iron Man,” which some are calling a concluding chapter, as well as his continuing work on the Showtime series “House of Lies” and whether a reunion with “Boogie Nights” director Paul Thomas Anderson is in the cards. Besides exchanging gunfire with bad guys, Cheadle also trades plenty of quips of Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark, as they both get out of their armor and take on the genetically enhanced villains. Perhaps his most high profile gig was taking over Colonel James Rhodes, a.k.a War Machine in “ Iron Man 2” from Terrence Howard, and now he’s reprising the role in “ Iron Man 3.” The twist is his armor is now painted red, white and blue to create the more PR-friendly Iron Patriot, and he spends the film protecting the President of the United States ( William Sadler) from the Osama bin Laden-esque terrorist leader The Mandarin ( Ben Kingsley). Since his breakout role opposite Denzel Washington in 1995’s “Devil in a Blue Dress” Don Cheadle has been one of America’s premiere character actors in films like “ Rosewood,” the “ Ocean’s Eleven” movies, “ Crash,” as well as starring roles in biopics like “ Hotel Rwanda” and “ Talk to Me.”
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