“…I worked out with Duffy, Brad Pitt’s trainer, and he put me through a regimen. I couldn’t even do A pull-up at first, just screaming trying to do one. (makes screaming noise) That high-pitched scream, just hurtin’ so much. I couldn’t do push-ups, I couldn’tdo anything. By the end of the eight-week training I could do ‘em all. I could do 15 pull-ups, at one point I could do 25 straight. Then I could buff out like 50 push-ups. I got in shape. With characters if you walk in and you do the work physically, spiritually or mentally it all kinda falls in line. All you do then is just have fun. By the time I got to doing the role I just went in there and had some fun and I get to be a hero with humor. I laid off the gas and laid off the punch of trying to be funny and just kinda let the game come to me.”

Marlon Wayans

“…I was on a helicopter and I had it around my hip like a pistol. It fires 600 rounds a second. Once you press that trigger, the higher that you get, the adrenaline rush stays with you for another half hour afterwards. That was the highlight of my day. Just to gear up and go shoot with that. It took a good 20 minutes just to reload it. You had to get the shoot right the first time because of the time it took to get more ammo. I haven’t played with guns in my career because I’m actually quite shy of them. I’m not that into it, but this is a character that demanded that. This is what his expertise is in, and so I immersed myself in it. Heavy Duty has this bracelet that is made from the shells of bullets and wears an earring that is a torpedo. I saw the envy of the actors’ faces. They wished they were in my position.”

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje