Video Interview: Clive Owen On Shoot 'Em Up
By Carolina Korth on September 5, 2007
Giving the world a new definition of "action hero" with his take on Mr. Smith in
Shoot 'Em Up, Clive Owen not only had to learn how to handle more than a dozen types of guns for the role, but he also had to learn to do it while holding a baby. Talk about talent.
See what he had to say about working on the film and understanding the creative force that is the movie's writer/director, Michael Davis.
A lonely outsider (Clive Owen) living in the shadows of his tragic past, rescues a baby from certain death and finds himself embroiled in a nefarious government plot. En route, he “hooks up” with a prostitute (Monica Bellucci) who specializes in lactation fantasies and who will help him feed and take care of the orphan child. Together they take on the trigger happy gangster politicians (Paul Giamatti, Stephen McHattie), and in a cinematic homage to Serge Leone, John Woo, Jean Pierre Melville shoot ‘em up’s, they bring down the Government and save the day. In the wreckage they find they have accidentally created their own little fractured yet functioning family.
Shoot 'Em Up Opens Sept 7th
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