are hammering away, and so that’s still pending,” he says. But I know Gavin O’Connor and Warner Bros. “They’re still working on the script on that, so they haven’t set a start date yet. The “Suicide Squad” sequel is also hovering on the horizon. The actor will next appear in the crime-thriller “Three Seconds” along with Clive Owen and Rosamund Pike, and he’s gearing up to start shooting another miniseries in Budapest. Those little differences, those are the ones that ignite the idea of what the character can be, and then you start exaggerating them and shaping them.” I notice when I’m skinnier.…I relate to other men in a different way, and I feel a little younger and a little more ‘squirrl-y.’ And then when I’m heavier, I have a different posture. “A real easy tool to do when you’re finding a role is to change how your body is because you operate a different way in the world. You try to make your body into this different personality,” he says. “There is something that is really similar to what we do. In the flashy-tech world of “Altered Carbon,” the individual self exists separately from the body as “cortical stacks” - which store consciousness - and can be inserted into new bodies, called “sleeves,” when the previous body dies.Īs an actor, it’s a familiar notion for Kinnaman. And now because of this new technology, we have a very different relationship to bodily damage and pain,” Kinnaman offers. “It’s central to the story that there is violence, because part of the violence is to show that the human body is now disposable. The show carries an R-rating, reflecting its cinematic ambitions, which include plenty of stunt and CGI work packed into the murder-mystery storyline. Construction workers, police officers making an arrest. You had noodle shops with people eating, tattoo parlors and street vendors, people digging a hole in the ground. “We had a set that was three football fields deep, with a whole living, breathing city - like three stories of bridges going back and forth, about 450 extras in the most odd clothes walking around and construction workers. “There were more impressive sets on than I’ve ever seen in my whole career, way beyond ‘RoboCop’ and ‘Suicide Squad,'” Kinnaman says. The show, which has been described as “cyber punk noir,” was adapted from the 2002 novel by Richard Morgan and draws comparisons to “Blade Runner: 2049.” Kinnaman wasn’t initially interested in doing another TV show - “I’d just come off of ‘House of Cards,’ and I was also a little hesitant doing a sci-fi show on TV,” he recalls - but was won over by the massive scale of the project. It was the first time that I really stepped up to that level.” “I wanted to be prepared in a way where I could do my own stunts. “Really grinding out different martial arts and strength and conditioning,” says Kinnaman, dressed in a look he coined “Swedo” in style (a riff on “Guido”). Mugler x H&M’s Collaboration Campaign Photos For the futuristic “Altered Carbon,” he trained three to five hours a day over six months to get into the role of Takeshi Kovacs. Training has been a large part of the 38-year-old Kinnaman’s regimen and significant backbone of his preparation for his film and television roles, which have often fallen within the action genre. So if you eat good and go train, then it’s easier.” “The key is to not to go out and get f–ked up, then it’s a wrap. “I’ve adjusted pretty well to each ,” says the low-key, Sweden-born actor of the temporal bouncing around. Kinnaman, who’s on the final leg of a press tour for Netflix’s big-budget sci-fi series “Altered Carbon,” was clearly charmed by the gesture. His bounty from Seoul - where he’d visited after Los Angeles and before Sweden, Paris, and now New York - included locket necklaces for himself and his wife, tattoo artist Cleo Wattenström. Joel Kinnaman pulls up a photo on his phone of intricately wrapped gifts, one of the perks of a worldwide press tour.
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