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Sam Worthington & Jessica Chastain Interview For ‘The Debt’
Sep 4th
Director John Madden’s espionage thriller ‘The Debt’ begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel (Helen Mirren) and Stefan (Tom Wilkinson) about their former colleague David (Ciaran Hinds). All three have been venerated for decades by their country because of the mission that they undertook back in 1966, when the trio (portrayed, respectively, by Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas, and Sam Worthington) tracked down Nazi war criminal Vogel (Jesper Christensen ) in East Berlin. At great risk, and at considerable personal cost, the team’s mission was accomplished – or was it? The suspense builds in and across two different time periods, with startling action and surprising revelations. ‘The Debt’ is out now in the US, and September 30th in the UK.
What drew you to the role of David?
Sam Worthington: I was in Albuquerque filming ‘Terminator Salvation’, and director John Madden flew to there. I was wondering why this bloke wanted to fly to f*cking Albuquerque, and I figured it was to sign me on, since there’s not much there, besides green chilies and weaving, so we hung out. He’s a very sensitive man, very eloquent. After hearing his take on the script and what he wanted me to do with the part, I really liked it and I felt safe. That’s why I chose to work with him. I always choose my projects based on the director.
Did you watch the original Israeli film?
Sam Worthington: I’d seen the original, way before the movie had come up, but I didn’t go back to invest in it or use it. There are a lot of differences. The characters are a bit more stereotyped and there were these little holes that needed to be filled in. So I didn’t go back to it, but I had seen it.
Helen Mirren & John Madden Interview For ‘The Debt’
Aug 26th
Director John Madden’s espionage thriller ‘The Debt’ begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel (Helen Mirren) and Stefan (Tom Wilkinson) about their former colleague David (Ciaran Hinds). All three have been venerated for decades by their country because of the mission that they undertook back in 1966, when the trio (portrayed, respectively, by Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas, and Sam Worthington tracked down Nazi war criminal Vogel (Jesper Christensen ) in East Berlin. At great risk, and at considerable personal cost, the team’s mission was accomplished – or was it? The suspense builds in and across two different time periods, with startling action and surprising revelations. ‘The Debt’ is set for release August 31st in the US and September 30th in the UK. Check out what Helen Mirren and John Madden had to say about the film below.
What was the appeal of this story for you as a filmmaker?
John Madden: You can’t not want to make a thriller as a director, it’s the most pure cinematic form. It’s the form which tests your skills in the most exacting way. It’s like playing on a really good Golf course, not that I’m a golfer, but I can imagine (laughs). Those challenges and overcoming those challengers is very stimulating. But it’s not about me, it’s the story you are telling. The most appetizing thing for me was that it’s a fantastically compelling story, about very big subjects – the guilt and the aftermath of the holocaust, how people are brought to accountability for that. If it were only that it might sound a little didactic and not very interesting. It’s about what happens to these three people who are pursuing this objective, the way they become involved with one another, the conflicts that develop between them. That’s terribly engaging, it allows you into a point of entry in the film that you don’t always get in thrillers, because you are so involved with what’s happening to them emotionally.
Jessica Chastain Interview For ‘The Debt’
Aug 24th
Director John Madden’s espionage thriller ‘The Debt’ begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel (Helen Mirren) and Stefan (Tom Wilkinson) about their former colleague David (Ciaran Hinds). All three have been venerated for decades by their country because of the mission that they undertook back in 1966, when the trio (portrayed, respectively, by Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas, and Sam Worthington tracked down Nazi war criminal Vogel (Jesper Christensen ) in East Berlin. At great risk, and at considerable personal cost, the team’s mission was accomplished – or was it? The suspense builds in and across two different time periods, with startling action and surprising revelations. ‘The Debt’ is set for release August 31st in the US, and September 30th in the UK. Check out what Jessica Chastain had to say about the film below.
You get to be involved in quite a few combat scenes in this film, what was that like?
Jessica Chastain: I’ve never been in a fight in my life (laughs), when approaching this film I was a bit nervous about how I was going to realistic play a Mossad agent. So three and a half months before we started shooting I started working with a coach, that was incredibly helpful for me. I wanted it to look like it made sense, that Rachel could take down these people. My coach taught me a lot about how to use ones body weight, so even if you’re smaller than somebody else, you can use your bodyweight to twist someone’s arm that leads them into the ground, and you can pin them in certain ways. That coaching definitely gave me the confidence to approach those fight scenes, and be tough (laughs).
Sam Worthington Interview For ‘The Debt’
Aug 19th
The espionage thriller begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel (Helen Mirren) and Stefan (Tom Wilkinson) about their former colleague David (Ciaran Hinds). All three have been venerated for decades by their country because of the mission that they undertook back in 1966, when the trio (portrayed, respectively, by Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas, and Sam Worthington tracked down Nazi war criminal Vogel (Jesper Christensen ) in East Berlin. At great risk, and at considerable personal cost, the team’s mission was accomplished – or was it? The suspense builds in and across two different time periods, with startling action and surprising revelations. ‘The Debt’ is set for release August 31st in the US, and September 30th in the UK.
Can you tell us about the story of ‘The Debt’?
Sam Worthington: Yeah, ‘The Debt’ is a movie in two parts. In 1966 three young Mossad agents are trying to take down a Nazi war criminal, the problem is the plan goes south. The way they react to that situation has a ripple effect thirty years down the track, where people like Tom Wilkinson, Helen Mirren and Ciarán Hinds play the older version of us, we see the after affect it has on them and what they need to do to make life right. The driving force in the movie is how these three people deal with living with a monster, and what the monster does to these three people. He knows how to push their buttons.
The Debt Trailer – Starring Sam Worthington, Helen Mirren & Tom Wilkinson
Jul 21st
Pesky Nazi’s, they’re always causing sh*t! This trailer is a cracker, it thoroughly rang my interested bell, I really want to see how this film plays out now. The Debt is a remake of an Israeli film called HaHov. It was rewritten by Matthew Vaughn & Jane Goldman (of Kick-Ass and Stardust) as well as the original writers Ido Rosenblum & Assaf Bernstein. Check out the synopsis and trailer below.
In 1965, three young Israeli Mossad agents on a secret mission capture and kill a notorious Nazi war criminal. Now, thirty years later, a man claiming to be the Nazi has surfaced in the Ukraine and one of the former agents must go back undercover to seek out the truth. The movie stars Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Sam Worthington, Marton Csokas, Jessica Chastain, and Ciaran Hinds. The Dept is directed by John Madden