BASIC INSTINCT 2
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Did you have to turn down any films to do this film?

I can’t remember to tell you the truth, I probably did but it was nothing to do with this. Our baby was due three weeks after I finished this and it was contracted so I finished before that was happening because I didn’t want to be on set waiting for a phone call. It was very much planned all around that and seeing as it was all set in London it worked out very nicely. It was the thing that came along that was most attractive and also fitted into that time scale.

Do you have any regrets film wise, bad choices and so on or do you always look at the bright side?

Yeah I have regrets certainly with things that I have done, absolutely. I mean one of the things I would have said at the time was THE ISLAND OF DR MOREAU, which was a bleeding nightmare to make. It was 5 months of absolutely horrible stress and it is a shockingly bad film but looking back I am so glad that I did it because it is such a weird film it’s become a bit legendary. I also got to know Marlon Brando and we became quite close and not everyone can say that in their lives, but at the time I was like, oh Jesus! But I’ve got a lot of funny stories and little secrets and I met a great man.

Are you big on the cinema or do you just do DVDs?

I’ve got to be honest with you I do DVDs because I live in Windsor. There’s no cinema in Windsor, our nearest cinema is Slough or Maidenhead. So I get a bit lazy like that.

So would you call this a British film with American money or and American film with British actors?

I always think a film is a film depending on where it’s set and who’s in it so I think it’s a British film really. I think of HARRY POTTER as a British film even though the money comes from Warner Brothers. I mean if you want to call it an American film because of that fair enough but HARRY POTTER is obviously British because it’s written by a British woman and it’s all set in Britain and it’s an entirely British cast and crew. So I think BASIC INSTINCT 2 is a British film whether that’s a good thing or not I don’t know.

Were you happy with the switch of the film to London?

Yeah, I kinda liked that. I liked this in London just because it’s so different to the original. I think that will be the biggest surprise to people because it’s such a dramatic change to the location and I think that Michael Caton-Jones makes it look very attractive especially the gherkin, you know the subtle metaphor of the gherkin.

So do you prefer big films like this or smaller independent ones?

Years ago I would have said smaller independent, because I was getting sick of doing some big films but the past 4 or 5 things I’ve done have all been big numbers and I’ve really enjoyed them. Between HARRY POTTER, KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, NEW WORLD and THE OMEN have certainly been high profile films or in the case of NEW WORLD at least a good director, so I can’t really say that anymore because I’ve had a really great time these past few years being in big films and it’s nice to be in things that actually get seen. For a while I was doing things that I really enjoyed but they never really got seen because these big things knock them off the screen, and then you end up saying what’s the bloody point? So it’s nice to actually be working with a good director on a big scale film, getting paid nicely and your films are getting seen and hopefully not embarrassing myself too much, that’s always a worry!

David to divert a little to the upcoming remake of THE OMEN, can you say anything about your character in that film?

Yeah I play Jennings who’s the photographer who in the original discovers the whole thing in the first place and loses his head very famously. We just shot that recently and I’ve seen it, it looks very good, a very good decapitation. I think it has already been hit at by the press just because it’s a remake. Why do you remake a classic? Well I think that the original film is a bit dated and why shouldn’t you do remakes because you do that in theatre all the time you know with a different cast. The main thing about this is that this cast is pretty great - Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Pete Postlethwaite, Mia Farrow, Michael Gambon - there’s not a bad actor in there and let’s not forget me of course! That’s a great cast and it’s a great story, it’s all been updated and there’s a great little guy playing Damian, so I’m hoping that’s going to be a pleasant surprise that one. Hopefully they’ll say why have you done it? And then after they’ve seen it they’ll say, oh wow it’s pretty cool! There’s also a whole generation of people who never saw the original. It’s being released on 06/06/06 which is pretty much the main reason for making it in the first place!

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