Jai Courtney popped into HuffPost Live for a chat about UNBROKEN, his career, movies, TV, playing the guitar and Terminator Genisys…
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Huffpost: We’re talking about Terminator Genisys; Why is it- Why do you spell it that way?
Jai: I dunno, ’cause you do.
Huffpost: Is it a spoiler to tell me why it’s spelled that way?
Jai: I can’t even really answer, but I guess it is. It is, yeah.
Huffpost: Really?
Jai: yeah it’s a spoiler. That’s gonna be my answer for anything that’s a little tricky today.
Huffpost: Did you get to work with Arnold at all; shooting that movie?
Jai: I did, yeah.
Huffpost: What was that like?
Jai: It was great.
Huffpost: Yeah? That’s gotta be nerve racking- I mean; there’s working with great actors who are just incredible performers who can give you hints and tips and you can learn from and then there’s working with like a legendary, just, presence– does it feel like that, like ARNOLD has entered the set?
Jai: Um, yeah I guess so in a way, you know- you certainly don’t miss him. He’s not hiding in a corner somewhere; you’re aware- it was cool you know, Arnold’s achieved so much in so many kinda different areas. He’s a legend, um and it was a lot of fun having him around, yeah.
Huffpost: How much in this film are we seeing the present and the future war,- or is it like Salvation where it takes place solely in the future war between the cyborgs and the humans?
Jai: There’s so much I can’t tell you.
Huffpost: that you can’t tell me?
Jai: I can’t tell you anything.
Huffpost: So what do you sign when you sign up for Terminator Genisys?
Jai: You sign non-disclosure agreements, and studios are very protective and paranoid these days about that sort of thing and you know, in an age when scripts get leaked; I guess it pays to kind of maintain the mystery and you know…
Huffpost: What would happen to you if you let something slip, if you did say something- ’cause now you are Kyle Reese for the reboot; you should be coming back, barring any unforeseen circumstances- like the film isn’t a success- but hopefully it is and you do come back. There’s no way that they could cancel you as Kyle Reese because you let something slip in this interview… ?
Jai: No, I’m sure, well who, oh god, who knows…
Huffpost: I’m just projecting the worst case scenario right now, the worst interview tactic possible.
Jai: Okay, cool yeah, roll with that formula.
Huffpost: So at what point will you be able to say stuff, can you at least say what it was like shooting the film- was it fun?
Jai: It was a lot of fun, it was a lot of hard work, Um, it’s a big movie as you can imagine; in kind of uh, scale and scope and um, you know it was exhausting, it was really demanding physically but we’re telling a really kind of interesting um, story there. Look, what I can say- we started in a place that we’re familiar with from the early films and then circumstances change and it kind of shifts the course from that point, so it’s not necessarily a sequel or a reboot or a… , I don’t even know how you’d brand it correctly. I mean, we’re not remaking one of the earlier Terminator movies and it doesn’t necessarily pick up from where we left off.
Huffpost: You’re in Die Hard and the Terminator; what’s it like being a part of a franchise that started when we were kids- sometimes even before we were born?
Jai: It’s cool, I mean um, it’s funny, I guess I learned a bit coming off the Die hard movie about going into this, you know people often ask about how
much attention you pay to um, the previous films in that franchise and stuff. I think it’s funny; you’ve gotta have balance between respecting them and paying homage to it in some sense but without trying to recreate it or whatever, I mean I’m playing Kyle Reese and Michael Biehn set that character up with the 1984 film, you know it’s not going to make sense for me to go back and study his performance and try and recreate that- it’s not what we’re doing.
Huffpost: But is it hard for you to get that out; were you a Terminator fan?
Jai: I was, yeah. Terminator 2 I saw a bunch. I think you know, we must’ve recorded that on VHS, my sister and I. So I saw that a ton, um, you know, you just go back and look at it and familiarize yourself with the world for details and that sort of thing but we’re telling a new story here.
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Overall Jai is tight-lipped about the movie at studio request. Terminator: Genisys continues with mystery but is that doing the movie any favors right now as fans become angry with the recent PG-13 possibility (it was always a possibility as Skydance make PG-13 movies). Fans need an epic trailer to get dragged in (an online Rated R trailer would be even better). We have faith that the trailer will appeal to people but we all remember how Terminator 3 and Salvation’s trailers made the mediocre movies look much better than they actually turned out. It’s becoming common for Terminator Fans to say they won’t even attend the theatrical release if this movie is PG-13. After the experience of Terminator 3 and Salvation at the theater; I would seriously consider not attending either. The studios need to understand that the Terminator series is not a cash cow franchise to pump for free money when they need a quick financial injection and until that is understood, until they realize that the fans won’t be taken in by an empty lure; Hollywood will never reap the real awards that await them.
If you are reading this you are a Terminator Fan and we take your opinion seriously, this website exists to make sure you get your voice heard and try and make enough noise to make sure you get a better product now and in future. We all deserve a good movie to watch!
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