Video:Sylvester Stallone, Randy Couture The Expendables Interviews
with Rebecca MurraySylvester Stallone wrote, directed and stars in 'The Expendables,' an action film that features some of the best known action actors on the planet. Among those joining Stallone to talk up the film at the 2010 Comic Con was UFC champ Randy Couture.See Transcript
Transcript:Sylvester Stallone, Randy Couture The Expendables Interviews
Rebecca Murray from About.com Hollywood Movies at the 2010 San Diego Comic Con.
Writer/Director/Actor Sylvester Stallone and Randy Couture - The Expendables
If there was a team you could put together and a mission you'd like to accomplish, what would it do?Sylvester Stallone: "5 guys, where would we go? Well we'd have to go after Bin Laden of course. That would be the mission."
Randy Couture: "Give me 5 minutes with Bin Laden."
Sylvester Stallone: "There you go. That's what we need."
How does the action in this compare to other action movies you've done?
Sylvester Stallone: "It's far and away the toughest. I've done action films for 30 years and some really hard ones, but this one here was just grueling - just grueling. The heat, the amount of constant battering to the bodies, constant realism, it was hellacious."
How about working with Jet Li?
Sylvester Stallone: "Jet Li was fantastic. He's very quiet and he's extremely efficient, just like his fighting style, so we tried to accommodate him as being this kind of narcissistic, angry, kind of like...we became very funny, sort of his negativity and his speech patterns, but extremely effective."
How long did you need to get all of these guys together for the movie?
Sylvester Stallone: "Well, it took even 5 months after the movie I was still trying to get Arnold [Schwarzenegger] and Bruce [Willis] together. It took about 6, 7 months. It took a while because the film kept changing. But then I said, 'You know what? I just want tough guys. I want the toughest guys I could find, and guys that can act, too.' And that takes a while."
How did it capitalize on your style of fighting?
Randy Couture: "I think that they allowed me to kind of have some input and do things that I felt comfortable doing, and capitalized on my strengths - which is the physical."
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