CraveOnline: Did being a father make you more fatherly to the other actors, and as the character Brandon?
Ryan Phillippe: One of the reasons why it would make sense for me to lead this group of guys is because I’ve been around a little longer, I’m older and I’m a father. I think there are those aspects that I feel fraternal towards these guys. I support them, want to see them do well, know the enormous future ahead of him, can't wait to see it happen. Think Joe Gordon Levitt is one of the best young actors out there. It's like I am that way by my nature. I am not competitive and want to see the people I care about do as well as they possibly can. I think there is part of a leader of a squad that is like that. You want to protect, you have the fatherly instinct toward those guy and you want to help and see them ascend and achieve and I think that kind of made some sense. It was sort of a built in aspect to who I am that I guess could relate to Brandon.
CraveOnline: As a father, do you worry about your kids maybe going into the military?
Ryan Phillippe: Yeah, I definitely do and you know, if it was my child’s choice, you would never want to stand in the way or impose your own views politically or otherwise on whatever path they chose. I think if it was a war akin to WWII and the reasons why we fought that, I would have far less of a problem than I would this kind of war. But I think more than anything it’s just the idea of any harm coming to your children is the most terrible thing you could imagine. I remember my mother would say that she would lock me in the attic if there was a draft, and I think there would be that impulse. If you have a son and if he’s 18 and that’s what he was most motivated to do, I come from a military family, I would support that. But God I hope it doesn’t ever come to that.”
CraveOnline: What movie were you just in?
Ryan Phillippe: It's called Franklin and it's with Eva Green and Sam Riley. They say it's like Batman meets Magnolia. That's how weird it is. It's totally weird. It's a weird movie.
CraveOnline: So Batman meets Magnolia. Is Franklin a superhero?
Ryan Phillippe: My character kind of is a vigilante or an alternate reality, yeah. It's really crazy. I have all these fight scenes in this Edwardian costume. I did all of my stunts myself and I have like these boots with a hidden heel and I'm doing full on fight scenes on the rooftops in these boots. It's ridiculous.
CraveOnline: What are you writing?
Ryan Phillippe: It's a true crime story that's actually dark comedy, so think along the lines of hopefully Fargo. That's kind of what I like. It's funny, I don't do that stuff typically as an actor but when I write, it's where my brain goes, that kind of dark comedy, true crime stuff.
CraveOnline: Do you have financing?
Ryan Phillippe: I know I have it there waiting but I haven't signed the deal.
CraveOnline: It's been a year since we've seen you, and you'd just been through some major life changes, so how’s life right now?
Ryan Phillippe: Good, man, really I can’t complain. My kids are great. I'm writing right now. I want to direct something this fall that I’m writing. I finished a really cool film in London at the beginning of the winter and yeah, man, no complaints.
CraveOnline: Are the kids with you this weekend?
Ryan Phillippe: They were here this morning.
CraveOnline: What do you do with the kids when you’re at a press junket?
Ryan Phillippe: It’s a pain, man. You feel like a bad father. Last night, I got home exhausted and you just spend the entire day talking and the last thing you want to do at the end of a press junket day, literally you don’t want to talk anymore, and I felt like a mute father last night. I got home and I’m like making dinner for them, and you know, talking to them and trying to act just whatever energy I have left, and we ended up just up in my bed watching Nancy Drew.
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