The actor plays a vengeance-seeking vigilante in the first Hollywood film from the legendary director in 20 years.
Woo recalled thatThe Suicide Squadactor “asked me to drive with him, to sit with him.
I was so scared.”
Joel Kinnaman in ‘Silent Night’.Carlos Latapi
“The driving part was really fun on this film,” he says.
“I got to really do a deep dive.
They taught me how to drift and things like that.
Joel Kinnaman in ‘Silent Night’.Carlos Latapi/Lionsgate
And then we put John in the car and had a little spin!
It was so fun.”
Well, fun for Kinnaman, anyway.
“That was a one-time deal,” the actor admits.
“John jumped in and out real quick.”
The actor describes the film as a classic revenge story.
Gun play, hand-to-hand-combat, and extreme driving are some of the skills audiences see honed via montage.
And, if you have a shirtless scene, you’ve got to eat salad and stuff."
The actor explains, “It t took us several days to rehearse that.
We were also shooting in Mexico City.
Its at elevation, so running up those stairs was pretty gnarly.
The location was a little scary.
The mantra that was going through my mind the whole film was ‘no permanent injuries.'”
These are busy times for Kinnaman.
“It was pretty epic,” Kinnaman says of working Cage.
“I mean, Nick is just as advertised.
He’s got pink hair and he’s like, ‘Hi, man!
My wild cat just ran away!’
Then, in his whole living room, theres this big birdcage.
He walks up to the cage, and hes like, ‘Heres Miles, Hes my reptile manager.’
Theres this big guy standing in there who is apparently his reptile manager!”
Next, Kinnaman will star in another automobile-oriented film calledThe Beast.
“Its me and Sam Jackson in a car,” he says, laughing.
“Its a new genre.
Its me and an OG in a car.”
Silent Nightcostars Scott Mescudi (a.k.a.
Kid Cudi) and Harold Torres, and is written by Robert Archer Lynn.
The film is released in theaters Dec. 1 ahead of a Dec. 19 release on VOD.
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