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Alessandro Nivola Says His 'Kraven the Hunter' Role Was "Like Playing a Bond Villain" | THR Video
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12/11/2024
At the premiere for 'Kraven the Hunter,' Alessandro Nivola tells THR his role was a lot of character work and says, "it was more like playing a Bond villain."
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It's rare to see an R-rated superhero film these days.
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Why do you think it was necessary to have that rating for Kraven the Hunter?
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Um, just because he kills so many people.
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Simple enough, simple enough.
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What do you think was the craziest stunt that was pulled off in this film?
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Oh, um, God, it's so hard to say because I didn't really do any stunts.
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I had like a guy being me doing crazy stunts.
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He did some crazy things.
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He jumped off of cars and lifted trucks up in the air and threw them and
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I was home like, you know, having a pizza at that time watching the NFL game on TV.
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Yeah.
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You weren't even on set for that.
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You're like, oh, this is your day to shine, buddy.
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I mean, the beauty of the role is that there was very little CGI.
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It was more like playing a Bond villain.
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It was all character work for me.
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And I had a very specific guy in mind who I built the character off of, who was a
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Russian poet, friend of mine and my wife, Emily Mortimer's named Philip Nikolayev.
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Remember that name and read his poems.
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He's a brilliant poet.
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But he's an eccentric guy and had a very particular way of talking and a very particular
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look about him.
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And I just imitated him and I got them to make me a wig that was like his hair.
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And I built the character from the ground up like any other role that I've played.
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And I didn't really have to do a lot of running and punching.
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I left that up to Aaron and my stunt double.
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I also wanted to ask you about The Brutalist.
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It's been getting so much award season buzz.
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How special was it to be a part of that project?
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And where were you when you heard that they got the Golden Globe nomination?
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Well, it's been a crazy few weeks because The Brutalist, this movie, and Pedro Almodovar's
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movie, The Room Next Door, all opened in the same week.
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This one today, Friday, and then The Brutalist and The Room Next Door next Friday.
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So I literally came from a Brutalist screening a few minutes ago to this one.
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It was a total coincidence that we made these movies at different times over the past two
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years and they just happened to end up coming out at the same time.
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But they're all very different roles, all three of them.
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And there's something kind of great about people being able to see them all at once.
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I like to think of, if last year was Barbenheimer, this year is The Cravenist Next Door.
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The Cravenist Next Door!
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Hashtag!
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We're going to make it happen!
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