Jesper Christensen on new Bond movie: I was allowed to change my role
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Jesper Christensen on new Bond movie: I was allowed to change my role
From Danish newspaper
(google translate)
It's not much, actor Jesper Christensen must talk about his role in the upcoming Bond film 'Spectre'. But he reveals that it was '**** fun' to be back on set.
At home we see him on the screen every Sunday in prime time as hippien Thomas with the long hair and loose robes in DR's popular drama series 'heirs' season 2. In Hollywood knows him in a somewhat different role, that of the short-haired villain who always are dressed in suits, Mr. White of James Bond. His name is Christensen. Jesper Christensen.
Playing in the legendary Bond movie is something that very few Danes vouchsafed. To reappear two years later in a sequel is said to be a bit of a sensation. To contribute throughout the three films, is unheard of.
Nevertheless, it is precisely what the 66-year-old actor Jesper Christensen can write on the CV when the new Bond film 'Spectre' gets its world premiere on November 6.
How big Dane's role exactly is whether Mr. White dies or survives for a possible fourth film, you get him not to reveal, as BT meetings actor in a cafe in downtown Copenhagen.
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"Yes, I must not say anything about the new Bond film. Well, I'm done and have made it, I say. And I can say that it was fun. It was damn funny, "reveals the 66-year-old Jesper Christensen.
With his lined face, beard gray now, blue thermal jacket, burgundy-orange sneakers, kind eyes and an understated humor that constantly lurking below the surface, looks like he did not immediately prototype of a true Bond villain.
Actually looks like he is not the prototype of any particular and may therefore play an alcoholic in 'The Bench', Norwegian king, Nana's father and hippien Thomas in everything from children's films to von Trier.
Not boxed
"It's nice that I get used to so many things, it's fortunate for me that I have not been boxed in," he said. Now, seven years after he last pulled in Mr. White costume in 007 movie 'Quantum of Solace', he is again back in what will be one of the world's most talked about films of the year. And although Jesper Christensen does not have to say anything about his role, he says that this third film 'Spectre' personally has been the best Bond experience of them all.
"Yes, the scene was damn fine, and him Sam Mendes (director, Ed.) I think very well about, so it was really fun. He is such a director, I like. He listens and talks and writes about, "laughs arch Copenhagen failed trained educator and never have gone on playwright or theater schools.
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Yet he has from the beginning of his glorious career always taken its own roles and shaped and directed them and suggested quotes that he felt they should be. Bond film with director Sam Mendes was no exception.
"Yes, the pride knew no bounds when I could sit and suggest lines in English. That I was also very impressed with himself. And then, hey, it was not just propose, but its acceptance. So it was really good. And if so I'll say no more about it, "he remembers suddenly found himself on. With such a gigantic Hollywood machinery, there nemlig high risk for the escape of something out of the movie before the premiere, much to everyone's fears. Therefore also the Dane under strict orders to take all precautions.
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"Do not send anything in the mail, and it says 'Jesper Christensen' and a number across every page of the script, so they know where you are leaking something. So they come with 600 lawyers, "he says and adds:
"They are so paranoid, so you have no clue about it. But it is with good reason, for the whole hysteria surrounding this Bond universe is quite massively huge. The web is Bond almost a religion, as many have an opinion. And then they got the stolen their early manuscript in 'Sony-gate' (Sony was subjected to hacker attacks, ed). So I understand that you are paranoid, "he says.
With more than a hundred film and television roles on the CV and many more to come, as well as his directorial debut on five sections of 'heirs', Jesper Christensen a thorough knowledge of the Danish film industry. When asked what we at home can learn from the United States, is his answer:
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"I do not think there is anything special to learn over there. So, there is always something to learn from the film, but it can also be the new Polish film 'Ida', or the fantastic 'Birdman' as I was inside watching yesterday. So no, there is nothing obvious to learn from them.
In a USA production is also too much to have an opinion and decide, usually producers who must decide this and that. So it can happen that production wastes a lot of time instead of saying 'please just shut up, we should be OK. "
This is because, according to the award-winning actress, along with the Americans generally have harder conditions to make the more offbeat movies.
"Therefore, we can easily get permission to do things that are not obvious facilitate market. We are privileged that there are several million crowns coming easier to budget than if you are American.
If they do not manage to find the actors who are 'field table' (salable) as it is called, a really ugly word, it is no matter whether you have written a completely wonderful and hugely relevant film. It will not be made. And in my book, if the script is not in order, it is also crap. Over there they begin somewhere else, and I think this is the wrong place, "he adds.
http://www.bt.dk/film-og-tv/jesper-christensen-om-ny-bond-film-jeg-fik-lov-at-aendre-min-rolle
From Danish newspaper
(google translate)
It's not much, actor Jesper Christensen must talk about his role in the upcoming Bond film 'Spectre'. But he reveals that it was '**** fun' to be back on set.
At home we see him on the screen every Sunday in prime time as hippien Thomas with the long hair and loose robes in DR's popular drama series 'heirs' season 2. In Hollywood knows him in a somewhat different role, that of the short-haired villain who always are dressed in suits, Mr. White of James Bond. His name is Christensen. Jesper Christensen.
Playing in the legendary Bond movie is something that very few Danes vouchsafed. To reappear two years later in a sequel is said to be a bit of a sensation. To contribute throughout the three films, is unheard of.
Nevertheless, it is precisely what the 66-year-old actor Jesper Christensen can write on the CV when the new Bond film 'Spectre' gets its world premiere on November 6.
How big Dane's role exactly is whether Mr. White dies or survives for a possible fourth film, you get him not to reveal, as BT meetings actor in a cafe in downtown Copenhagen.
Forget Bond babes - Here is the new Bond car
"Yes, I must not say anything about the new Bond film. Well, I'm done and have made it, I say. And I can say that it was fun. It was damn funny, "reveals the 66-year-old Jesper Christensen.
With his lined face, beard gray now, blue thermal jacket, burgundy-orange sneakers, kind eyes and an understated humor that constantly lurking below the surface, looks like he did not immediately prototype of a true Bond villain.
Actually looks like he is not the prototype of any particular and may therefore play an alcoholic in 'The Bench', Norwegian king, Nana's father and hippien Thomas in everything from children's films to von Trier.
Not boxed
"It's nice that I get used to so many things, it's fortunate for me that I have not been boxed in," he said. Now, seven years after he last pulled in Mr. White costume in 007 movie 'Quantum of Solace', he is again back in what will be one of the world's most talked about films of the year. And although Jesper Christensen does not have to say anything about his role, he says that this third film 'Spectre' personally has been the best Bond experience of them all.
"Yes, the scene was damn fine, and him Sam Mendes (director, Ed.) I think very well about, so it was really fun. He is such a director, I like. He listens and talks and writes about, "laughs arch Copenhagen failed trained educator and never have gone on playwright or theater schools.
suggest quotes
Yet he has from the beginning of his glorious career always taken its own roles and shaped and directed them and suggested quotes that he felt they should be. Bond film with director Sam Mendes was no exception.
"Yes, the pride knew no bounds when I could sit and suggest lines in English. That I was also very impressed with himself. And then, hey, it was not just propose, but its acceptance. So it was really good. And if so I'll say no more about it, "he remembers suddenly found himself on. With such a gigantic Hollywood machinery, there nemlig high risk for the escape of something out of the movie before the premiere, much to everyone's fears. Therefore also the Dane under strict orders to take all precautions.
See the pictures: The ten hottest Bond babes
"Do not send anything in the mail, and it says 'Jesper Christensen' and a number across every page of the script, so they know where you are leaking something. So they come with 600 lawyers, "he says and adds:
"They are so paranoid, so you have no clue about it. But it is with good reason, for the whole hysteria surrounding this Bond universe is quite massively huge. The web is Bond almost a religion, as many have an opinion. And then they got the stolen their early manuscript in 'Sony-gate' (Sony was subjected to hacker attacks, ed). So I understand that you are paranoid, "he says.
With more than a hundred film and television roles on the CV and many more to come, as well as his directorial debut on five sections of 'heirs', Jesper Christensen a thorough knowledge of the Danish film industry. When asked what we at home can learn from the United States, is his answer:
Saleable actors
"I do not think there is anything special to learn over there. So, there is always something to learn from the film, but it can also be the new Polish film 'Ida', or the fantastic 'Birdman' as I was inside watching yesterday. So no, there is nothing obvious to learn from them.
In a USA production is also too much to have an opinion and decide, usually producers who must decide this and that. So it can happen that production wastes a lot of time instead of saying 'please just shut up, we should be OK. "
This is because, according to the award-winning actress, along with the Americans generally have harder conditions to make the more offbeat movies.
"Therefore, we can easily get permission to do things that are not obvious facilitate market. We are privileged that there are several million crowns coming easier to budget than if you are American.
If they do not manage to find the actors who are 'field table' (salable) as it is called, a really ugly word, it is no matter whether you have written a completely wonderful and hugely relevant film. It will not be made. And in my book, if the script is not in order, it is also crap. Over there they begin somewhere else, and I think this is the wrong place, "he adds.
http://www.bt.dk/film-og-tv/jesper-christensen-om-ny-bond-film-jeg-fik-lov-at-aendre-min-rolle
Comments
Fascinated to see how they use his character.
Surprised he's not been forced into silence about him being in the movie though. When he wasn't announced at the press conference it was obvious they wanted his inclusion to be a secret.
Hmmm, I wonder if he knows Higgins? They really do have people everywhere!
Didn't he say he would never be involved in a Bond movie again... what's with the turnaround??
(I've known for a while he is in the movie, but what about the nasty things he said last time round?)
I well remember those quotes. Funny how even a professional thespian with high integrity can be swayed by the offer of another pay cheque, isn't it?
Sean Connery certainly changed his mind and came back for DAF. For Jesper Christensen it couldn't have been a difficult choice to come back. It sounds like for him being in Spectre was simply easy money.
I do think that's a possible reason why Christensen wasn't announced at the photo call. They wanted to lure us in with the idea of Waltz being ESB but then they'd throw that surprise on us.
However, it could just be that he only has a small role in the film and that was why he was never announced.
That's what I'm thinking. From the sound of the interview, Jesper was done shooting his role quickly.
Telly Savalas was quite an excellent actor.
Yes, and he is smashing as Blofeld. -{
His Blofeld was the most sinister.
Kevin Spacey? Revealing him as Blofeld would probably get a big laugh from the audience, and that's probably not what they're going for.
Probably right about Spacey.....maybe an Ian Mckellen type? Or maybe they go younger?
Defintely younger than Ian McKellan. Someone around Ralph Fiennes' age would make the most sense.
I don't just want someone who looks smarmy or can play up the villain thing. I want someone who looks more or less like evil from the inside out rather than the outside in.
I tend to think someone like Mark Williams, of Harry Potter and the Father Brown Mysteries, has the quality I'd want in a Bond villain. He's got a dopey, almost benignly common face and a pudgy, overfed body, but his eyes project a cold, judgmental quality. With the right expression, he can easily project rage and calculation below the surface.
When I think of supervillains, I don't think of someone who's simply born villainous or even made so by some traumatic event, like Magneto or whatever. I think of someone whose life situation affords him no other way to get what his ego demands.
That's what made Goldfinger such a great villain. He's a man with such an ego that he expects to live like James Bond. But look at him. That's never going to happen, no matter how much money or power he gets. And so he channels all of that rage and disappointment into his horrible plot . . . and he despises everything about James Bond, who is the living reminder of his failure. That's why the scenes between the two of them crackle with such vehemence and take on such deeper meaning -- his killing the girl who Bond seduces, his attempt to castrate Bond with a laser beam, his "General" garb, in effect outranking Bond. Heck, Bond is such a virile opponent he even steals Goldfinger's lesbian, haha. Goldfinger is an organic villain. Everything he does is an extension of who he is, from his cheating at cards and golf to his need to make Bond respect him before he's dispatched.
Now, with Jesper Christensen, I see the qualities that could make him a super supervillain. He has a cruel, almost alien-looking face, but his wide-set eyes are definitely reptilian. There's a lot going on inside there. The difference is you can see also him fitting in neatly as a CEO in the modern world. He could go legitimate, if he wanted to, but he decides not to. He looks like a man who can compete with Bond on some level, but he's not taking chances. And that's the quality I would want in a certain villain. He's the fighting fish that watches the other two before deciding to attack the survivor.
Well-said, especially your analysis of Goldfinger as a villain. -{
They would also have to change Blofeld to Blofeldi. Changing the name of Blofeld, especially to a woman's name, just sounds like something from a parody, and the filmmakers have been trying to avoid that. She would have to explain that only her mother is Italian and her father is Polish. Starva would make more sense if she was Greek, since Blofeld's mother was Greek.