Ben Barnes "Collider" Interview (talks The Words, The Wedding, TSS & Overdrive). Part 1 of 2

The Source: http://collider.com/ben-barnes-the-wo... by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub. Posted on January 27th, 2012
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Time Index:
:18 Talks about the Sundance experience. This is his first time at the festival and he's wanted to go for years.
2:12 Gives a quick synopsis of the film and talks about what attracted him to the project. Says his agent initially told him to pass because the role didn't have a lot of lines.
5:17 Talks about how many takes he prefers to do. Discusses how actors don't generally get to choose how many takes they want.
6:40 Reveals the most amount of takes he's ever had to do. The project was Dorian Gray with Colin Firth and he couldn't keep a straight face during one particular scene.
8:06 What's his go-to karaoke song? Says depending on how drunk he is, he's either trying to be Jay-Z or Whitney Houston.
8:57 What's the last video game he played? He learned American football by playing Madden on PS3.
9:41 Talks about The Wedding. Reveals that he plays the adopted Columbian son of Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton who's preparing to marry Amanda Seyfried's character. His Columbian mother, whom he neglected to tell that De Niro and Keaton got divorced, decides to come to the wedding. He asks De Niro's new wife, played by Susan Sarandon, to leave for the duration of the wedding and Robin Williams plays the priest who's marrying Barnes and Seyfried.
11:10 Talks about having to up his game when working with a cast as talented as The Wedding. Says he tries to do the opposite and become extremely relaxed.
12:30 Discusses The Seventh Son with Jeff Bridges. Says he starts filming next month. The film is loosely based on a series of books called The Spook's Series. Bridges plays a grizzled and grumpy witch hunter who needs a new apprentice, which is Barnes. Says the movie will be PG-13.
14:45 Says the shoot for The Seventh Son will last three months and they're filming in Vancouver and China. Says Overdrive with Karl Ubran fell apart.
15:23 Talks about how lucky he is to work with so many incredible actors.