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A Touch Of Clash

Having exploded onto our screens in Avatar, Sam Worthington returns to fine form in the action-packed Greek mythology sequel, Wrath Of The Titans. He tells Roe McDermott about his criticisms of the first film, coping with his relatively new fame and why he’ll never give up his addiction to Googling himself.

Roe McDermott, 17 Apr 2012

Rugged, built like a tank and with a very blokey sense of humour, it’s no surprise English-born, Australian actor Sam Worthington is outspoken – with those muscles, no-one’s ever going to take him up on it. It was still surprising when the Avatar star spoke out about his role in Clash Of The Titans – a usual no-no in Tinsel Town. But it seems that when fans and critics alike complained about the admittedly stupid action film, Worthington took note.

“I read a lot of reviews and everyone thought I looked like a fucking idiot,” the actor said. “More was written about my fucking hair in this movie than anyone’s in the whole world – apart from maybe Jennifer Aniston when she had that haircut in Friends that the whole fucking world copied!”

Despite the stir his comments caused, Worthington doesn’t see the problem with actors being openly critical of their work.

“I think it’s like a soccer player talking about his troubles with the game. There’s nothing really wrong with it. I was just saying that in the first one I think I was a conjugate for action. I didn’t get to do much except be a wrecking ball with a big bald head. I knew I wanted to get deeper, which as an actor you always want to do. You want to sink your teeth into a role. But you can get lost in the size of the movie. So in this one I said, ‘If you give me a kid, that’s going to ripple the story, and give me more to play with.’ And so the story becomes richer. If you have Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes it’s going to work with them, and delve into their characters a bit more. So the movie ends up not being a monster mash. It becomes a movie about a dysfunctional family trying to connect with each other. It just happens to be Zeus and Perseus in a world of monsters!”

He also admits that the new director, Jonathan Liebesman, was a huge draw to revisiting the widely criticised franchise.

“He’s the same age as me and he has the same way of thinking – he can be as cocky and confident as I can! And it’s exciting to work with someone like that, someone who’s not living in fear of doing a sequel.”



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