Video:James Frain Interview - Tron Legacy and The Tudors
with Rebecca MurrayJames Frain just finished up his run on Showtime's 'The Tudors' but he's been keeping busy elsewhere. Frain's got 'Tron Legacy' in the works and at the 2009 BAFTA/LA Tea Party, he talked about working on that 'Tron' sequel.
Transcript:James Frain Interview - Tron Legacy and The Tudors
Rebecca Murray from About.com Hollywood Movies at the 2009 British Academy of Film and Television Arts/Los Angeles TV Tea Party.
James Frain – Tron Legacy and The Tudors
Was that as much fun to work on as it seems like it would have been, with that cast of The Tudors?
James Frain: "Well, yeah, I loved it because even though you're working in a fur coat indoors, it's really good writing. We all got on real well and they've got good directors. It was a really good experience."
But now it's all done, right, for you at least?
James Frain: "For me, they chopped my head off. That has a way of being final. But they have just shot another season which I feel very ambivalent about. But I'm in touch with them. I've kept in touch with the people who are still working on it, because I can't let it go quite."
And it took them a while to chop your head off.
James Frain: "It did. It did. Yeah, I was still hoping to get up and carry on till the very last."
But it is based on true history so it would have been kind of weird.
James Frain: "They did cut Cromwell's head off that way. And in fact the last speech that they gave me to say I kind of talked to the writer about. 'This is a lot of words. Is there anything…' He said, 'These are Cromwell's exact words.' So I was like, 'Can't really argue that one.'"
What keeps you busy now?
James Frain: "I just finished shooting Tron 2 for Disney."
Tron Legacy?
James Frain: "Tron Legacy they call it. Are they going with that name? I don't know."
That's what they put up in lights.
James Frain: "Got it. That's what I'm in."
What are you doing in that?
James Frain: "I'm playing the Jeff Bridges character's sort of right-hand man, I guess, inside computerland."
It's just amazing to me that they're bringing that storyline back after all these years. Were you familiar with Tron?
James Frain: "Sure. Yeah, but this one is really good."
Are you saying the first one was not really good?
James Frain: "The first one was of its time and everyone loves it. It's iconic. But what people are anxious about is that if you remake a film like that or you take on a film like that it's not going to be as good as the original. And they've got nothing to worry about. They've got a really good script. I think it's going to kick ass, yeah."
So the script is good? It's not going to be just the effects? This is a character-driven story?
James Frain: "Yeah, absolutely. The 3D is incredible, I'm sure. For us, it's running around in suits in front of a blue screen. But, you know, it's a story-driven, character-driven film so that's… I think when it all comes together it's going to be something else. "