Guns, Bad Assery, and becoming Crossbones in Captain America are just a few of the topics we ripped through…
Did you know that horror movies have been doing poorly at the box office all summer long? It’s true: BoxOfficeMojo tells us that Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, Devil’s Due, Oculus, The Quiet Ones all underperformed, and Deliver Us From Evil will likely fall short as well.
But The Purge: Anachy isn’t so much a horror movie as a revenge/action film and it’s got one thing that those other movies don’t have: the amazing Frank Grillo, who’s been playing cops, criminals, and tough guys for close to twenty years, since Silk Stalkings and Minority Report. These days he’s best remembered as playing Brock Rumlow (the future Crossbones) in Captain America: The Winter Soldier..
Our Hollywood hobogogo Angie Ortiz was part of a panel of journalists that got to sit down with Grillo a few days before the premiere of the picture, and they all got a pleasant surprise: not only was Grillo not the grim and scary guy we’ve seen in so many movies, he’s was actually funny, and a family man, and a professional who knew – and knows – exactly what he’s doing, why he’s doing it, and what he’s doing next. Here are just a few audio clips from our talk:
Grillo really does come from the old-school tradition of Bad Assery. What characters does he look to as historical precedents and inspiration?
Frank Grillo has a reputation – borne of hard work – that he’s a tough guy in real life as well as in film. But he’s the first to tell you that’s not entirely true.
And here’s another interesting contrast between the ‘tough guy’ image and the ‘real’ Frank Grillo:
But enough about The Purge. Let’s talk about your other big role of the summer, ** — the future Marvel super-villain Crossbones – in Captain American: Winter Soldier. Are we going to see more of him in the inevitable next chapter?
Whether or not there’s more Purge or Crossbones in the future, Frank Grillo won’t be waiting around. He already completed a murder/ghost story, Demonic, and a thriller called Big Sky with Bella Thorne and Kyra Sedgewick, and there are a string of other projects already lined up. We’ll be seeing plenty more of him … and The Purge: Anarchy opens this week.
