В продолжение темы: Джейми еще и о Лиеве много хорошего вспоминает Whole lot of brotherly love on 'Defiance'
By Genevieve Loh, TODAY | Posted: 06 February 2009 1247 hrs
LOS ANGELES : They couldn’t be any more different: One is an intense, impossibly tall, imposing American father of two from New York who graduated from Yale Drama School; the other, a short, small-framed 23-year-old single Brit whose granddad still makes fun of his waning Northern accent when he returns to his tiny hometown of Billingham to visit.
And it’s that difference that makes Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell’s brotherly bond in "Defiance", the big-screen version of the true story of the Bielski Partisans, all the more remarkable.
Even if Bell - the Bafta-winning actor (that’s the British Oscars) who took the trophy home for Billy Elliot at the age of 13 - did find sharing the screen with two highly respected actors in Schreiber and his other “brother” Daniel Craig initially “a little bit” daunting.
“I have a big admiration for these guys as actors, even more so now as men,” Bell told TODAY.
“The great thing about it was realising that they’re incredibly generous with everything; with their ideas, with their acting, with their ability. They’re actors who, when you stand in front of them, elevate your performance without really doing anything.
“So it was daunting, but immediately I was equal, and immediately there was none of that sort of macho stuff that usually happens on movie sets.”
Schreiber attributed the harsh weather conditions during the location shoot as a real bonding factor.
“We were all freezing,” shared the versatile actor/director/writer who won the Tony award for the 2005 Broadway run of Glengarry Glenn Ross.
“You had to hike out of the woods to go to a trailer, so you didn’t. You sat around in a group, you huddled and you drank tea.
“We were out there with nothing to do but sort of spend time with each other. Telling stories, and, you know, having snowball fights.”
Said the 41-year-old with a laugh: “We were very childish. There was a lot of goofiness. And I think that was about us recreating the childhood that we hadn’t spent together.”
One thing the two lads had in common? Nothing but praise for their “big brother”, James Bond.
“I’ve been a massive fan of his for a very, very long time,” gushed Bell, who plays Asael, the youngest brother caught between his older siblings’ fierce rivalry. “I think our knowledge of this guy seems to fall to one name, and that’s James Bond, but for me that isn’t the case at all. I know Daniel Craig as the very fine versatile actor.
“So translating that admiration that I have for him into this guy who basically idolised his brother was actually very easy.”
Said Schreiber, who plays the more passionate, hot-headed second brother, Zus, to Craig’s leader, Tuvia: “I was just so impressed with the fact that this major motion picture star wasn’t going back to his trailer. You know, in between takes. It was freezing out. Some of those set-ups took an hour and a half, two hours to accomplish. And he’s out there the whole time.”
The common ground between Bell and Schreiber, however, ends there. In fact, their future roles couldn’t be further apart. Bell is slated to play Tintin in the Steven Spielberg-directed movie adaptation of the beloved Belgian comic-strip hero (Craig will play the villainous Red Rackham), while Schreiber rips things up as Sabretooth in the highly-anticipated "Wolverine" movie.
“I was a fan of the comic books,” he said, “I knew the character really well. Initially I’d been asked to play General Striker and I asked ‘Is there any chance I might be able to play this Victor Creed guy?’ He is incredibly brutal and feral and has a bloodlust unlike any other character I’ve ever played - much, much more than Zus.
“Zus is basically a lover. Sabretooth is a real killer.
“I guess for me it’s the same thing with (approaching) a character like Zus. It’s like rather than just saying they’re violent brutes, what’s the cocktail that makes the brute tick?”
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