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Shawn: My roommates are comic fans too, so I always pick up whatever they have lying around.
Shawn: I've always been into sci-fi and fantasy stuff, but I wasn't aware of Earthsea or Le Guin's work.
Shawn: I'm a video game buff.
Shawn: I'm 25, so I've already gone through what my character Ged goes through, though it's on a general scale because I haven't studied at a wizard's school.
Shawn: I'd take telekinesis. I could move things with my mind, and with telepathy I could control other people's minds and make them do whatever I wanted.
Shawn: I would do movies and TV, and in the summer I would skateboard, in the winter I would snowboard, so I had a pretty full plate.
Shawn: I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.
Shawn: I used to blow up G.I. Joes with firecrackers, so I hope nobody does that with mine.
Shawn: I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge.
Shawn: I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them.
Shawn: I think Ian McKellen made it all happen, because he used to throw dinner parties and invite everyone over.
Shawn: I still have, at my parents' old house, a big box full of comics in my old closet.
Shawn: I really liked Ged's dark side. He's a young man who is strongheaded, growing up in the middle of nowhere and feels destined for something else.
Shawn: I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.
Shawn: I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going.
Shawn: I loved working with our director, Rob Lieberman, and our producer, Robert Halmi Sr.
Shawn: I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I've watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman.
Shawn: I just finished a movie called Three Needles with a director named Thom Fitzgerald, who is a great Canadian filmmaker.
Edited on 01/10/2010 5:15amYou must be registered and logged in to post a message.Shawn: My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.
Shawn: Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.
Shawn: It's nice to do something a little lighter, 'cause in X-Men we were super-tense the whole time.
Shawn: It was a completely different shooting schedule than X2. That was six months doing a two-hour movie.
Shawn: It seems to me that there's nothing tougher looking that a bunch of X-Men in black leather outfits.
Shawn: It doesn't get more iconic than Terry Fox.
Shawn: Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions.
Shawn: I haven't read anything for a while, but I always flip through X-Men to keep up to date. Spider-Man, also.
Shawn: I don't, I just prefer that maybe, my girlfriends don't like video games, 'cause then we'd probably never leave the house.
Shawn: For me, for Iceman, it was all about a moment with Hugh. The whole understanding between Bobby and Wolverine - just about Rogue and Jean Grey, the women they love - the connection of unrequited love... it's a great moment.
Shawn: Everyone definitely has a different technique: Hugh can turn it on and off. He's like, Hugh Jackman fun and games, and then all of the sudden, he snaps into Wolverine.
Shawn: Every day on set, there was something to watch and learn.
Shawn: Don't get me wrong; everybody has been completely welcoming, but at the end of the day, read-throughs are my least favorite part about starting a new project.
Shawn: Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.
Shawn: Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times.
Shawn: As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.
Shawn: Also, I did a film called Dot with Edie Falco and Elisha Cuthbert. I play a character named Connor who is a typical high school jock that has a relationship with this deaf girl named Dot.
Shawn: Above and beyond having the social life, to have a core group of people that you work with and spend time with and learn how to work with is a nice thing.
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