![]() ![]() "It's that peasant mentality," he explains. He took it, happily, because the guy needs to work. He'd just finished Furious 7 (opened in April, huge hit) and the chance to do Spy came his way. But this works, and I give a lot of the credit-or all of the fucking credit-to Paul and the writing."īe clear: Statham wasn't looking for a break from his action-movie set. Even if a lot of the people don't like it, there will be a lot of people that do. At least in making an action film, there's always going to be someone who wants to see a car chase. "I've always been apprehensive about trying to do a fucking comedy, because they're either brilliant or they're fucking terrible. And I've known that he was funny ever since that first Crank movie. In every movie, people pick up on his good-natured ways. "I hate comedy that's trying to be funny. "Jason makes every movie better," Feig says of his decision to cast the Transporter in a Melissa McCarthy vehicle. Though just now the movie that's opening is Spy, Paul Feig's new comedy with Melissa McCarthy and Jude Law, in which Statham plays an absurdly funny comic construct of his own character type. ![]() Action movies, car movies, chase movies, capers. As such, it would feature only a single word as its title: Snatch, Crank, Collateral, London, War, Redemption. It's a real past.Īll this makes it easy to become a kind of hostage to his storytelling, like someone stuffed in the trunk while he drives, like some mook in a Jason Statham movie. He came from elsewhere, and it doesn't bother him all that much to remind people of that. Everything declares: He wasn't made in the Hollywood Hills. Drawn from instincts developed as a high-level athlete (twelve years spent on the British national diving team), lessons learned working the stony streets of London, axioms earned while living on thick and rubber-banded cold rolls of cash, everything Statham says stinks of truth. Statham talks like a man who knows things, who understands the physics at play. Because if you're landing on your nuts, as a bloke, believe me, it's no fun." You find a way that you're not gonna go over and do yourself a disservice. "I just don't think he knew what he was doing. Even when talking about Mad Harry, the fuckup diver. He doesn't scowl or use a tagline or fall into an eyebrow routine. It seems to amuse him that he intimidates. He regards things sideways, incredulous at the very prospect of them, constantly asking: Who's this, then? Eyes screw in tighter, brows rise more with each sentence. Somehow he always looks pissed off, wrung out, put upon. And when Statham looks at an audience of one, really looks at you, it feels like you may be in a little trouble. He swears the way you wish everybody could, the way some people hope to use exclamation points, as an imprint of enthusiasm. He is not a big man-he is fit, light on those bare feet, and younger looking than his forty-seven years-and he doesn't stop talking. ![]() He is folded into a chair, shrinking downward, feet bare. It's wider rather than deeper, so that every room feels long from left to right and shallow from front to back. His house spreads the broad way along a downward pitch in the Hollywood Hills. Luke is an elite agent and uses his skills to protect the girl.The terrazzo on which Statham sits is a garden of high-end rattan furnishings. When Luke sees the girl fleeing from the Russian mobs in the subway, he protects the girl and discovers that the number she had memorized is the combination of a safe where the Triads keep 30 million dollars. She escapes from the mobsters and is chased by the Russians by the corrupt detectives from the NYPD and by the Triads. ![]() One day, Han Jiao asks Mei to memorize a long number and soon the Russian Mafia abducts the girl from the Chinese mobs. The Russian mobsters kill his wife and the alcoholic Luke wanders aimlessly on the streets and homeless shelters. Meanwhile, the fighter Luke Wright has his life destroyed when he wins a fight against the will of the Russian Mafia and accidentally kills his opponent. She is abducted by the Chinese Triads and the boss Han Jiao takes Mei to New York's Chinatown in order to help him in his criminal activities. In China, the girl Mei is a genius that looks like a computer in numbers. ![]()
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