CraveOnline: Are you able to walk around at your fame level?
Clive Owen: It was a little tricky and there were some pretty crazy characters there. I could. Yeah, I did. I walked through there but I couldn’t hang about. I had to have a bit of a pace on.
CraveOnline: How easy or difficult was the love scene gunfight?
Clive Owen: He animated it. That was one of the scenes; you know he did all this animated pitch for the movie and that was one of the scenes he animated. All the action sequences, we kept very close to the animation shot by shot. That was a little trickier because some of it was physically impossible to do. Stick drawings could do everything but Monica and I, we had to adapt a little.
CraveOnline: So what were the challenges of filming that love scene with Monica Bellucci?
Clive Owen: Oh, it was so difficult. It’s work, work, work. [Laughs] Actually, there were challenges because it’s actually a full blown shoot out. It just happens to be whilst making love. But it was still a big technical, had to be prepared and rehearsed and worked out because there was such a lot going on. But it is one of the wittiest, funniest scenes in the movie.
CraveOnline: Does this movie say anything about guns in America? What is it like in the UK?
Clive Owen: There’s not a big gun culture in England at all still. The rumor is that some police carry them. It’s all kept very quiet which is not a bad thing because I like living in a gun free environment. But no, I think the gun plot in this, the whole plot is just an excuse to get to the next action scene quickly, isn’t it.
CraveOnline: How was the gun training for the film?
Clive Owen: There was a lot of weapons because I shoot a vast array of different guns. It was an experience.
CraveOnline: Is this kind of therapeutic looking back on Derailed, where the character doesn’t do what you want him to do?
Clive Owen: It was the same guy. I’m glad you spotted that. It was his revenge.
CraveOnline: What thought have you given to playing Mr. Smith again?
Clive Owen: We’ll see how this one goes. Mike has already written a script and on my life, it makes this look like kids’ television. I honestly don’t think he’ll get it past the censors. That’s how ridiculous it is. The merging of sex and violence in the next one is verging on porn.
CraveOnline: Children of Men was awesome too. Why do you think it didn’t connect with more people at the box office?
Clive Owen: It’s very hard to put your finger on why that happens sometimes. I know for a fact, I was actually with Chivo who shot the film, last night. He’s in New York making a movie and we got together and started talking about the movie. It’s certainly one that I’m extremely proud of and I know that it’ll be a film that years to come, when I look back on a career, it’ll be up there. It’s very difficult to know why sometimes people go or they don’t go but at the end of the day, I’m not one of those actors who judges films on just how they figure in the box office. I watch a film and the most important thing to me is what I think of the movie. I watch that film and I think it’s a bold, ambitious, visionary movie and I’m extremely proud of it.
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