Red Carpets · 16 November 2011
Jason Flemyng On X-Men: First Class
Jason Flemyng interviewed by Kevin Durham, 16 November 2011. 3m 40s on tape.
In this clip I interview X-Men Actor Jason Flemyng who plays the X-Men character Azazel. In this interview he shares what it was like for him working on X-Men First Class and how the movie helped him conceive his first child. In an amusing twist on the red carpet, presenter Kevin Durham found himself in a series of comedic mishaps during an **X-Men First Class interview** with the charming Jason Flemyng. What was supposed to be a straightforward discussion about the blockbuster film turned into a comedy of errors, with Durham and Flemyng providing plenty of laughs for their audience.
What's on the tape
A transcript, made by machine from the audio and tidied up. It gets names and the odd word wrong, so treat it as a way to find the bit you want rather than as a quotation. Every timestamp jumps to that moment in the video.
0:04 Jason tell me about the DVD extras um well most of the stuff in the DVD extras that I love is all the stuff about the prosthetic. Makeup and um how they turned a beautiful Jennifer Lawrence into a big blue Smurf like thing um yeah so I find all that stuff really fascinating. So that's the I think the best bit there's also about 25 minutes of extra footage um none of me cuz Matt vaugh who's one of my best mates would never cut any of my stuff out a it's fun. Good you'll enjoy it if you're into the film you'll enjoy the extras okay and what was it like for you working on the film um it was a long. Process I mean I I Matt vaugh is like I said I've done all his films and this time you know I wasn't it wasn't too demanding.
0:43 For me apart from obviously the makeup um Matt just said Jason your job on this is to be slightly out focus do some good fighting. And get your wife pregnant and the twins were born on the day of release W so the film kind of helped you guys conceive definitely well Matt vaugh. Now thinks he creates life which is slightly worrying. It's got a Godlike power yeah he has got a Godlike power already and did you have a chance to put your input into the the character. Yeah I'm an old socialist and so I wanted him to be red and a communist and Russian and Matt um decided that that was going to be okay s's. Only had two lines and he could cut them anyway if he wanted to but I do say go and um I did it because I wanted to kill.
1:22 People and go does VI that didn't make it in either so now if you could have any superhero powers in real life what what would you choose and what would you do with them. Like I said I mean it's like all boys I'm afraid it's got to be x-ray vision which but generally it's a thing every BL wants to have I your wife. Like that she wasn't mine as long as I'm just window shopping you sure as long as you look don't touch that's the rule okay and um then the action scenes. That you did in the film looked really cool like disappearing and reappearing and grabbing people and doing stuff like that uh were they physically demanding. It was you had to be fit really to do this one and um I love all that stuff I do you know triathlons and C. Swimming and have done marathons and stuff so anything that's physically demanding I find exciting anyway so any excuse to train is a good thing the Russians.
2:08 Have sent Warheads to Cuba if that ship crosses the line we will retaliate with a full response we need your help to stop them supposed to be the cia's. New Mutant division now the character uh himself a zazil isn't very isn't very popular character not a lot of people will know him did that Chuck up any challengs. For you when I think it made it easier of anything made it easier yeah I mean the geeky real men fans don't even like AEL. But the rest of the rest of the people um either didn't know him or weren't really very aware of him so it made it easier. I mean I think beast and people like that was because there was already a template for those characters it was harder for Nick but I think he did really well and did end think funny. Or embarrassing happened on the set that you can share with us oh a story so much so much I mean there's lots of you know.
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2:52 Stories of of uh different colored paints on different bodies from different people obviously but you know it was it was like it was like it it was a real. It was really funny because lots of the cast you know ended up getting together and stuff which is sweet and Nick and Jennifer Lawrence and you know. Both blue both madly in love with each other still and it's been a year really since we've filmed it so it's really nice you know there's a couple of other. Relationships um that I'm not sure if they're official or not so I'll keep St about them but it was really lovely it was everyone got them really well great and what's your favorite. Memory from the film I think flying home in Matt vor's jet that's pretty muchy aw I love Matt for casting me so many times but I love him more for his Jack.
3:31 That's great Jason thank you very much wores no wores Cheers Cheers.
