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InThe Bricklayer , an antique - CIA agent , Steve Vail , is brought out of retreat to stop a rogue insurgent . The insurgent is assassinating extraneous journalists and framing the CIA as the orca in an attempt to turn governments around the earth against the U.S. As this blackmail architectural plan seems to be working , the agency will rely on Vail to discontinue the insurgent by any mean necessary .
The Bricklayeris directed by Renny Harlin . The screenplay was penned by Hanna Weg and Matt Johnson found on the 2010 novel of the same name written by Paul Lindsay under his penitentiary name Noah Boyd . The Bricklayerstars Aaron Eckhart , Nina Dobrev , Tim Blake Nelson , Ilfenesh Hadera , and Clifton Collins Jr.
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Screen RantinterviewedThe Bricklayerstar Aaron Eckhart about his raw action moving-picture show . Eckhart discussed working with Dobrev , what drew him to the part , and performing his own stunt . Eckhart also explained what he thinks superhero movie can learn from theThe Dark Knighttrilogy .
Aaron Eckhart Talks The Bricklayer
Screen claptrap : The Bricklayeris a fantastic mode to complain off 2024 . It ’s action packed with so many dissimilar twists and turn , and it keeps you on the edge of your fanny and genuinely guessing the whole time . To me , it feels likeMission ImpossiblemeetsTrue Lies . I absolutely love the interpersonal chemistry between you and Nina . It really glint through . I feel like those were the best parts of the film when you guys were on screen together . She even mention that you help her out with even mere things like manoeuvre the gun at somebody ’s direction that ’s on their team and that you ’re not supposed to do that . Can you talk to me about working with Nina onThe Bricklayer ?
Aaron Eckhart : Yeah , I mean , it was outstanding . She ’s obviously very talented . And she ’s very , very sweet and decent and disposed and ready to go . And she likes the action . She ’s into it . She likes to get down and get unsportsmanlike and she has expectant suggestions . So all that alchemy comes from just two mass on the same wavelength , seek to do the same matter , and make a great movie .
I love your portrayal of Steve Vail . I think that it ’s crazy , sometimes I blank out I was watching Aaron Eckhart because you just eat up yourself in this persona , even to the point where Nina was enunciate that when you guys first met you had the whole handwriting memorise . What attract you to the role of Steve Vail andThe Bricklayer ?
Aaron Eckhart : Well , I have sex the romance of the character . I rise up in the Cold War geological era and I love spy movies . I record spy novels . I love the approximation of clandestine deputation in foreign land . Also the idea that a man who has had a yesteryear and has move out himself from that past and gone a different counsel , a direction that he incur peace and solace in and creativeness , that he ’s brought back in .
And also how one can expend one ’s tools to defend oneself if need be . I wish the estimation of a adult male who is able-bodied to take care of himself on many different floor and sort of the reluctant market keeper that you ’ve pushed too far . Also , I care the fact that he has a sense of justice about him and that he ’s a realist . He knows peradventure that the side that he ’s been playing on might have their hands dirty as well
Right . Now , The Bricklayeris conduct by Renny Harlin who praise you and Nina for confide and doing your own stunt . Did his action experience help you get through any fussy intense scene ? Because permit me tell you , that rooftop view where you poke fun bring down on that lift , I love that view . And also the railway car chase in Greece . Man , you had me on the border of my seat .
Aaron Eckhart : Well , I went there a mates of calendar week early to agitate , train , choreograph , and get ready for those fight because I did everything myself . And then Renny said , " Yeah , there ’s going to be this great fight in an lift and the elevator ’s go to go down and you ’re going to fight . Oh , yeah , and it ’s all done in the rain . " And it was freezing alfresco . But yeah , Renny screw action .
He knows lens , he knows cameras , he knows angles , and he knows action and just ask him . And he is a pro at that . I mean , he ’s made drop dead Hard II and other great moving picture . I think , the guy ’s a caption . And so I just put myself in his hands . " Renny , what do you want ? What do you desire me to do ? Do this ? " And then if I get up with something good , then Renny ’s a capital collaborator , so he ’ll just startle on circuit card and we ’ll film it .
There ’s not too much talk about it . But I roll in the hay that I ’m in effective hired hand . I always say to Renny , and I just made another movie with Renny , and I said , " Renny , I do n’t go behind the monitors to look . I trust you to do it all . I trust you that you ’re going to make a groovy movie and you know how to do action . And so I just trust you . " And that ’s the way we do it .
That ’s unbelievable . Now , the action in this picture show is crazy . It ’s so intense . And , look , I know you get really place into doing the natural action in these function because another motion picture I saw you in last yr , which I absolutely screw , wasRumble Through the Dark . What sort of training or planning did you undergo to perform these activeness - load down succession ?
Aaron Eckhart : Well , before the picture show , I oppose trained . I work out with a boxer for a pair workweek here and then we went and choreograph for a couple weeks there . But just in my daily aliveness , I fight train . So I love to condition fighting . I lie with to be forcible . I love the strenuosity of it . And I always say to young actors , " There ’s three things that you should know how to do , so that you do n’t have to get a line how to do them on the day , and one is throw a clout , turn on a horse , and fool a gun . "
Because those three thing are very difficult to learn well on the solar day . And if you go count at films in cosmopolitan , you ’re either doing one of those three things in most moving-picture show , certainly in action films anyway . And so it behooves an thespian to go out and get some packing training or some martial art education and some gun grooming so that you may do those things well .
That actually tees up this next interrogative sentence utterly , because Vail paid his way through college by being a bricklayer . How much did you learn about bricklaying and throughout your filmography what skill have you picked up that you ’ve learned on the job ?
Aaron Eckhart : Well , look , I ’m not saying I ’m a bricklayer . I ’m not saying it . But I did learn about bricklaying and I tried to do it as well I can . It is incredibly difficult to butter a brick , which is put the howitzer on either side of it and then pass over it off and then post it and get it consecutive . I just have huge admiration for storekeeper who are laying brick or Isidor Feinstein Stone or anything like that , mixing mortar , and you ’re on your substructure all day doing it . But I did that .
And the problem was that I acquire in America to lay brick and I was using the criterion , just the small brick that you see as in a edifice . When I went over there , they ’re using these big brick , which is a whole unlike matter . It was a little more difficult to butter and to make them consecutive . So I did that . I ’ve learned , well , I tell you what , when I was doing Erin Brockovich in ' 97 , I said to myself , " If I have to get in shape and for the movies and all that , I ’m go to learn a acquisition while I do it . " And I started boxing . So as far back as that , that ’s when I really started box and I ’ve done it throughout the years .
I ca n’t recollect all the movies I ’ve been in , but I always cull something up from a movie . I just played a airline pilot . And so whenever I ’m in a movie that if I ’m a pilot , then I go out in the real world in my veridical life and I attempt to get a pilot ’s license . Which I have n’t have my pilot ’s permit totally but I ’ve been up in planes and doing all that , not by myself , but with my flight simulator . Erin Brockovich , obviously you bribe a motorcycle . So whatever I ’m doing , I usually end up trying in my real life to be that thing .
And it help . Because if you ’re a cook , I did a movie where I was a James Cook , so I would go and I buy all the stuff and see how to make gnocchi and all that and to commix and make sauces and to slice and die and all that . And I always say to actors again , I say , " Look , if you may do two things , if you may convince the audience , if you may do two things right , for object lesson , like a James Cook , which is die an onion without bet at it or flip the contents of a cooking pan just with a wrist joint legal action , then you ’ll have the audience for the whole flick .
And you do n’t have to do anything else right . " And it ’s basically reliable . If you may do things where I go , " Wow , that guy know what he ’s doing , " one time , in the hearing , it will reward that whimsey throughout the cinema , and you really wo n’t have to do too much after that . And so I kind of go by that rule .
Yeah , I mean , I totally see that in this film . I mean , I guarantee that you front like a badass throughout this movie . Now , alternate cogwheel for a second . You were in one of the better comical book films ever , The Dark Knight , which I think is responsible for the superhero boom in cinema . What advice would you give to the current craw of superhero fabricator to fetch audiences back into the box bureau ?
Aaron Eckhart : Well , it ’s not what I would order them . It ’s what ’s on film . It ’s what Chris did . If you take what your question right there and break it up and examine it , and you say , " The Dark Knight , " which is Chris Nolan , " brought that back , " from where ? Where did he bring it back from ? He brought it and put it right in world . He put it in truth in realism and made it concrete and real and tangible . And it was in fantasy land . And I have n’t seen a lot of those movies of late , but I reckon it ’s drop dead back into fantasy Edwin Herbert Land .
And the audience , expect at Heath ’s performance , look at Heath ’s makeup . calculate at his makeup . Everybody imagine that Heath , how should I say this ? His makeup look like he did it at home plate , right ? And that ’s what we need . We desire a superhero that ’s grounded in reality and we want villains that are grounded in reality . And Chris did that perfectly . And I think it set a benchmark for that . So I would say just get back to truth . Truth is where it ’s at .
About The Bricklayer
The Bricklayer follows a rogue insurgent blackmailing the CIA by assassinating foreign journalists and making it seem the agency is responsible . As other body politic start turning against the U.S. , the CIA must lure Steve Vail ( Aaron Eckhart ) – their most brilliant and ill-affected intelligence agent – out of retirement .
Check back soon for our otherThe Bricklayerinterview withNina Dobrev .
The Bricklayeris available now on digital .
