You can see Casper's trying to step up, but he can't. "And that's what I love so much about this piece, is that Steven's character steps up. And I think now is a time, in this day and age, where heroes need to really step up. Either doing things that we shouldn't be doing or not doing things that we should be doing. We're in a time and place when heroism is needed more than ever, which is very timely for The Warrant.Ĭorrelating our current climate with the film, McDonough said, "Right now, we're all doing things that we'll regret. It's always fun to be the hero, the guy that saves the day." And it was."Īs for why it's fun to play the good guy, McQueen was stoic, "Well, you've got the cameras pointed at you more than the bad guys. I thought it would have been a lot of fun. "Oh, well, I was excited to work with Neal and to be in a Western, which has been part of my heritage for a bit. I thought, 'Well, if I'm going to have a son in this thing, I want it to be Steven McQueen because I think he'll be perfect for this.' And with Annabeth as the mom, it all, looks-wise, really fits in very, very well." Stacia, his mom, and my wife, they are pals, and Luc, and everyone else. "But for Steven, I've known Steven for a good long time. So to play against that, and play that rougher, tougher, been through it all type of guy, Casper was perfect. because you know, Casper's a great looking dude. "He was growing up a little bit of gray in that hair, and to play against that, really. McDonough almost didn't get the opportunity to star in The Warrant when his agents passed on the script without his knowledge under the assumption that he probably wouldn't be interested in the drama. And I think we were out in Toccoa, Georgia, right? I lived in Atlanta for a couple of years before that, so being back in that part of the world was a blast. McQueen laughed, "That sounded pretty good. "He was like, 'Dad, I'm not talking to you as my dad right now. He never smiled into it, he never did a cheek. "And Steven's simplicity, when he just stares at me, and he just says, 'He's back.' Steven, talk about that if you don't mind because that was such a heavy moment in the movie it was a moment of levity.Īll the characters in that scene were smiling and giggling at what was going on, except for Steven because and he never gave into it. But when you're on my property, this is what you're going to call me.' The first time that I see Steven in the movie, here's me saying, 'Call me Dad, Pa, whatever. "You look at some of the lines of Steven, and Steven, you can talk to it. They face not only a legal challenge but a moral dilemma, as well. They are called upon to weigh the right and wrong, the good and bad of a situation before they act upon it. The characters of John and Cal Breaker don't take goodness and darkness within the human soul with a grain of salt. Well, generally, you don't get to see the good guys think so much, maybe once or twice in a film, but with Breaker, Brent wanted me to really think everything through before I reacted to anything. "I generally get to do that in my villains because I get to think about what heinous thing I'm about to do to whomever it is, and then do it because you love to see the villains think. It didn't take a whole lot, because I love that kind of guy. This was more take your time, think about the situation, and then react to it. McDonough said there is a difference between the way The Warrant was directed versus most modern films where he finds, "It's spitting the line out as fast as you can, so we can get to the special effects, so we get to the blow-ups, so we can get to the explosion, so we can get to the stuff." And my hat is really off to Brent, for really pulling that out of me." "I think his calmness on the set made me really calm as an actor, and really pulled out that stony, tough, resolute, and we're going to get the job done type of character. McDonough, whose excitement for the role and the film knows no bounds, believes it was director, Brent Christy, who got the performance you'll see in The Warrant. I guess it was more of a John Wayne type, that all-American, we can do it, all odds are against us, but if we dig deep and we believe in ourselves and have God on our side, there's nothing that can stop us type. "But with John Breaker, I didn't really see a whole lot of Neal McDonough in it.
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