Karl Urban Will Have You Seeing Red

Jordan Hoffman:  Red has such a terrific, full cast of great actors that are teaming up, having such a dynamite time. Did you ever think, "hey they're having all the fun and I'm the bad guy on the phone! What's that all about?"

Karl Urban:  Well I certainly got to experience a little bit of that at the end of the film. But yeah my character was written as the guy who is hunting them down and I was a bit more serious at the time. It's like every film, it's trench warfare. You've got 115 pages to shoot and you got 12 weeks to do it in. This was a very ambitious film in nature and I certainly think we tried and succeeded. There are certainly some action sequences and explosions and stunts that take time. Time is one of the luxuries we didn't have. I'm pretty proud of the film.

Jordan Hoffman: The scenes in the hotel when you're going up and down staircases and then running through kitchens, was that actually in a hotel?

Karl Urban:  It was in the Fairmont in Toronto.

Jordan Hoffman:  So you had to lock down the Fairmont and were running around the kitchen and what not? What's that like being in someone's workspace? You come in and invade but you have to be comfortable and do your job.

Karl Urban:  It's always wonderful when you can work in a real environment because it adds so much more to the movie. We really just came and took it over, firing weapons, and we would have to have certain scenes done by a certain time because delivery trucks would come and start unloading things into the kitchen.

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