Handsome actor Adrian Paul has revisited his immortal Highlander character Duncan McLeod after an eight years span between "Highlander: Endgame" in 2000, with the new DVD release "Highlander: The Source."
Adrian Paul - © Scott Alan / Photorazzi
The multi-lingual actor has numerous skill sets and talents that enabled him to provide expert stunt work and sword technique on camera.
His various expertise in the Martial Arts and rigorous physical training in dance has served him well in the action packed role of Duncan, who is on a grail-like quest with his immortal peers to save the world.
Monsters and Critics had a quickie chat with Adrian calling in from Budapest, where he is working on the new film, "Nine Miles Down."
M&C:
Adrian Paul:
That was a great experience for me - to be working with a group of actors whose work was honest. And really - that is all you want as an actor, to work with people who give the roles and the project their all.
And also, it's the stuff I get to do. I love to do my own stunts and I really did that sword work, the visual FX supervisor sped up the film so it looks like I may have not done it on my own, but I did! It was frustrating to not have a visual FX person on set telling us what they intended to do in each scene, yeah, so post didn't do us actors any great favors with that, but trust me that was all me with twirling the swords, And Highland's McLeod is a fun role to play. I'm very lucky.
M&C:
Adrian Paul:
We shot in Lithuania, and because of the night shooting we all had this vampire existence, this schedule of awakening at 5 in the afternoon, and wrapping and falling to be around 6 or 7 in the morning.
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Adrian Paul:
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Adrian Paul:
But I am also enjoying producing, and I am looking for some good scripts, interesting projects to put together really talented people. I've done a lot of different things in my career, but producing, versus acting affords me a lot more control.
Highlander: The Source is now available at Amazon and AmazonUK . Visit the DVD database for more information.
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