Exclusive: Temuera Morrison Talks Green Lantern
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By Kellvin Chavez on
May 24, 2010
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Over the weekend my kids and I had the great opportunity to go to Orlando for a little R & R and spend some time at Walt Disney World. It just happened that one of the theme parks; Disney’s Hollywood Studios was hosting a 30th anniversary of "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back."
The park has a STAR WARS ride called STAR TOURS, so it made sense for them to have some sort of thing for the celebration. They had some of the actors do meet-and-greets and photo opportunities for the fans. They had Ashley Eckstein (the voice behind Ahsoka) from “Star Wars: The Clone Wars”, Daniel Logan, he played the young Boba Fett and Temuera Morrison who played Jango Fett in “Star Wars: Attack of the Clone.”
During the visit, Wilson Morales from Blackfilm.com and I went to see if we can catch Morrison at the event and see if he would talk about his role as Abin Sur in the upcoming movie “Green Lantern” based on the DC Comics. Morrison is playing Abin Sur, a member of the Green Lantern Corps who is instrumental in Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) becoming the superhero.
I asked Morrison if he was done filming “Green Lantern” to which he replied:
“Yeah I’m done filming.”
But what was awesome about that was after I had asked that question he approached me and turned on his phone to show me how he looks like as Abin Sur. I was just shocked he showed me that. He basically looks exactly like the concept art like the one below.
“That took about 4-5 hours to put on, it was all prosthetic.” Morrison said while he was showing me the pics on his cell phone.
As he was finishing his photo opportunities with the fans Morrison and I were walking and I asked him how was his shoot with Ryan Reynolds.
“We did the whole scene together were I give him the ring, our suits are CGI so we had these grey suits with things on them so it was cool and working with Martin Campbell again was great too.”
When asked if he had read the comics, he replied:
“When they called me up for the role I was like ‘The Green Hornet?’ no no they said ‘its for Green Lantern’ so I said sure.”
What was interesting is that they have planned sequels for him as well.
“You know there are making sequels right?” Morrison said. “They want me to come back in the sequel. They want to show you my backend story for the next movie. They want to show you how I become part of Green Lantern Corps.”
I hope it works out for Morrison and I for one would love to see his back-story. What about you? Think his back-story would be good in a sequel if any.
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