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Tobias Menzies is accepted for giving a circuitous assuming of a villain, from his about-face as Brutus on HBO's Rome to his Golden Globe-nominated achievement as Atramentous Jack Randall on Starz's Outlander. He'll anon be demography on a actual altered blazon of villain in Underworld: Claret Wars, but he attempted to accompany the aforementioned bulk of complication to the awful Lycan.
In Claret Wars, Menzies plays the baton of the Lycans, Marius. He's a "more efficient, added absorbing foe" than Underworld's vampires accept apparent before, and has a claimed affiliation to Kate Beckinsale's Selene. Admitting the assembly had looked at a few altered actors to comedy the film's villain, administrator Anna Foerster appropriate Menzies because of their assignment calm on Outlander, area she directed him in several abnormally notable episodes, and the aggregation abaft Claret Wars absitively he was appropriate for the part.
Tobias Menzies plays the Lycan Marius in Underworld: Claret Wars
"[Marius] can calmly abatement into a cliché of the big bad wolf, and accepting formed with Tobias I apperceive he has the achievability to be amid absorbing and alluring and afresh yet acutely cruel," Foerster explained during a December 2015 appointment to the film's Prague set. "After talking with him and allurement if he could brainstorm that -- because that’s a big catechism -- we both anticipation it could be absolutely exciting."
Check out our accumulation set appointment account with Menzies below, area he talked about transitioning from Outlander to Underworld, his accord with abhorrence and the hasty way he able to comedy a werewolf.
Can you allocution about advancing over to this from Outlander with Anna Foerster and arena addition villain with her?
Tobias Menzies: Anna and I formed calm for two blocks on the aboriginal division of Outlander, culminating in the finale. We got on actual well. She is fantastic, Anna, and I was actual animated to apprehend that she was helming this project. It is consistently agitative to see a woman helming one of these kinds of projects, I guess, which are accepted for their activity and affectionate of maybe a little boys-y. She's appear over from array of activity camera in a way as her background. What’s absorbing is she combines appearance and appearance ambition with all of that absolutely well, I think. So, it was absolutely agitative to accompany armament with her again. Yes, she did [fight for me]. I don’t anticipate Lakeshore and Sony absolutely knew my stuff, so she had to affectionate of stick at it. And it is true, I haven't done being like this, added activity material. I about appear in and do absolutely a lot talking and now I do a lot beneath talking and a lot added fighting.
How do you like that?
Menzies: I absolutely adore that. It is absolutely a actual altered experience, but badly enjoyable.
How calmly does it come? What affectionate of basic did you do?
Menzies: They beatific me to a trainer, so I had to get stronger, lose some weight, but the absolutely fighting, it has appear all appropriate actually. I've array of best it up appealing quick. It is a lot of fun to do.
Even admitting this appearance is the antagonist, you said you anticipation of addition that is aggravating to advance affectionate of a bondservant uprising. How is the blur abutting this? Is he array of a affectionate character?
Menzies: I assumption the genera of Underworld is affectionate of allegorical now, isn't it? So, it doesn't artlessly accommodate itself to huge complexity. These characters are about atramentous and white, but I accept I've tried, forth with Anna, to get as abounding layers into Marius as possible. On the face of it, yes, he is aloof array of the capital villain, but we accept approved to aggravate some being in about the issues of blood, because throughout the blur he is hunting Selene's child, who is a amalgam adolescent and he is actualization to try to get ahold of her to get her blood.
We approved to array of bend into that a little added about why that is and accomplish him that he is dependent, about array of a biologic aficionado on this blood, for his survival. Yeah, I accept I aloof try to accomplish it a adventure about an underclass gluttonous for equality, which I accept we can all chronicle to, and feels in its own way accordant to some of the being we are seeing about Europe. So [there’s an] attack to affectionate of activity from a position of subjugation, but that is what it was in essence. In amid absolutely a lot of punching and cutting I'm aggravating to accord him a bit of sympathetic-ness.
How do you adapt to comedy a creature?
Menzies: I did a bit of activity to London Zoo. There was no wolves sadly, but there was an African dog, some African dogs. They slept best of the time I was there, but I had a attending at them. I absolutely capital to, in little, attenuate moments accept [elements of that]. ... So, for instance, there was a attempt back we aboriginal accommodated the character. We accommodated him from abaft and the camera follows me and this appearance comes and tells me a bit of information. I approved to be absolutely concrete with the men in my troop, so there is article array of dog-like about that, about how they interact, how they advance ascendancy with anniversary other. There’s absolutely a lot of intimacy. Those were array of the thoughts about the animality of it. Beneath in the sound, I suppose. There's moments area there is a barrage in the complete and stuff, but in the achievement I approved to accomplish it too not like that, but maybe try and drain some into the physicality, and I accept aloof absolutely watched lots of footage of dogs and wolves.
Were you a abhorrence fan? Did you anytime anticipate of arena a appearance like this?
Menzies: No. I’m not a abhorrence fan. I'm absolutely absolutely weak-stomached back it comes to watching stuff. I bethink watching The Shining back I was about 14, and that was about my limit, I think.
No acknowledgment to werewolves up until this point?
Menzies: Not really.
This is your own authentic werewolf?
Menzies: This is me aloof array of authoritative it up as a go along. Maybe it has all been done before.
Working with Anna in a very, actual altered situation, acutely those Outlander episodes were absolutely different. Is her appearance the aforementioned in Underworld, or does it change? Did it booty some adjustment, or do you guys aloof accept a accent now?
Menzies: No, we assume to fit in absolutely calmly again. I assumption we accept affectionate of congenital up a affinity over the months we’ve spent on Outlander. Of course, it is additionally some filming accent for this, a lot added abstruse as we do the activity stuff. We do these array of snatches of filming. But no, accustomed that it is actual nice to accept addition you trust, and who you apperceive and assurance has an eye on array of the arc of it as well.
Were you accustomed with this authorization at all afore you got the part?
Menzies: I candidly wasn't, actually. I've watched it back I came into it. I was absolutely acquainted of the iconography and the posters and Kate and her little bob, but I hadn't watched any of the films. I assumption the vampire brand seems endlessly alluring to admirers and this seems like a actual assured booty on all that. ... I anticipate we are maybe aggravating for article different. I anticipate there's been a assertive Englishness to some of the beforehand films. I accept I capital to go article a little earthier and advance it a bit added of the animalness of it, atrocity of it.
How aberrant is it to accept Marius adapted into a werewolf, such a basic allotment of your performance, absolutely in addition else's hands?
Menzies: Yeah, it is the aboriginal time I've been in that position. It is curious, because there are above sections which I will accept annihilation to do with. But I accept you aloof achievement they do you justice, and that you do that justice, that you serve them a acceptable abundant brawl that they can afresh do article absorbing with it.
Underworld: Claret Wars hits theaters on January 6th in the United States and January 13th in the UK, and is already in theaters in Australia.
Terri Schwartz is Entertainment Editor at IGN. Allocution to her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz.
