We’re not shooting that movie.
The real movie’s going to be the one we find on set.'
And he was ananimal.
Alan Ritchson in ‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’.Daniel Smith/Lionsgate
And all that training paid off since he had literally no time in between wrappingReacherseason 2 and filmingMinistry.
All right, here we go."
He laughs as he adds, “No preparation.
Alan Ritchson in ‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’.Daniel Smith/Lionsgate
We’re just flicking these arrows.
And it was fine!
It was fine because we’d worked really hard at it.”
And he was cunning.
“‘This guy hates Nazis, so this should be murder; this should be malice-filled.
They were killing cousins and brothers.
So I was pitching this idea that this should feel incredibly personal when he goes to kill these Nazis.
There’s real bloodlust there.”
Ritchson laughs as he remembers, “Guy looked at me like I was nuts.
And he was like, ‘I don’t know, man.'”
“Guy walked onto the set and he was like, ‘Where do I sit to see this?’
He was almost angry about it.
He was like, ‘Show me.'”
“And Guy loved it,” Ritchson reveals.
“He was like, ‘Great, love it, shoot it.
When you think of the action of this movie, that’s what you think of, that scene.
I don’t think there’s a greater motivation than what Anders Lassen was fighting for.”
That was a proud day where we just dreamed that up on the fly and it worked."
This was life-changing for me, really seriously, in a big way."
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfareopens in theaters April 19.
