Why did Werner Herzog play Zec?
While watching Jack Reacher I realized that Werner Herzog was playing the role of Zec. But why would such a famous arthouse director (whom I remember of not being particularly fond of mainstream Hollywood cinema) play a supporting role in a movie like that. Is there some interesting backstory behind this (maybe he is a fan of the books?) or was it just the usual business?
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From an interview with Werner Herzog:
I was approached by the director and Tom Cruise. They wanted me. I think it's a logical idea because I've done parts before where I played really dysfunctional and outrageous and dangerous characters, like in Harmony Korine's Julien Donkey Boy, and because of that and other films they were interested in me. And I liked them for their professionalism and commitment – things that I prize myself.
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Why is Werner Herzog in Jack Reacher?
"I was approached by the director and Tom Cruise. They wanted me. I think it's a logical idea because I've done parts before where I played really dysfunctional and outrageous and dangerous characters, like in Harmony Korine's Julien Donkey Boy, and because of that and other films they were interested in me.How did Werner Herzog lose his fingers?
"We were tossed so violently, that I saw the lens flying out of the camera," Herzog recalls. "I tried to hold the cinematographer, and we flew into the air. He banged his hand on the deck and the camera was still in his hand, [and it] split his hand apart between the last two fingers."Why is Werner Herzog so famous?
Werner Herzog, original name Werner H. Stipetic, (born September 5, 1942, Munich, Germany), German motion-picture director whose unusual films captured men and women at psychological extremes. With Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Volker Schl\xf6ndorff, Herzog led the influential postwar West German cinema movement.Did Werner Herzog go to film school?
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