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PIERCE BROSNAN:
“I just like heist movies. I grew up on them, The Anderson Tapes, The Italian Job. To Catch a Thief is another one that’s the ultimate blueprint in many ways. When I was doing Remington Steele, and Bob Butler was the director, he said, ‘We’re doing an old movie here.’ So I immersed myself back into those movies with Cary Grant. Maybe some sense of performance stuck.”
SALMA HAYEK:
“I’ve always been a fan of Pierce and wanted to work with him for a long time. He’s a very talented actor, and in this movie, his character is very relaxed, spontaneous; sometimes even goofy. You will see him with this messy hair, a little beard – he looks so handsome. It suits him.”
WOODY HARRELSON:
“When I read this script, I said, ‘I want to do this movie so bad.’ And it’s great to be working with New Line because I think as a studio they’re very original and fresh. They try things. And so between Brett Radner, who is a great film maker, the great cast and the script that was unlike any heist film I’d ever seen, which was so original and had the potential for a lot of humor, I was sold.”
BROSNAN:
”I read this script and I thought that it could be an entertaining movie, and ensemble piece, with a bit of heist, with a bit of romance, a buddy movie, and thanks to Brett Ratner, with a Herculean effort he really brought this to what you see. It’s because he’s got a good finger that’s on the pulse of the pop culture of life and music, and what’s sexy. He has a passion for making films.”
HAYEK:
“It’s definitely got adventure. It’s a heist movie – it’s sexy and it makes you want to go on vacation. It’s going to be one of those movies that everybody will like and have a good time with. It’s a movie for everyone!”
HARRELSON:
“I didn’t know Pierce very well, but once I started hanging with him I realized that he’s a lot like me. He’s definitely a hippie. He’s got that image of James Bond but he’s a hippie, there’s that side to him that he hardly gets to show.”
BROSNAN:
“I liked Woody’s work. We kind of knew each other indirectly over the years from the days of Remington Steele and Cheers. I think that if you really like someone, and you have a kind of respect for them, and the scenes are written well, it [turns out] fine. It’s a matter of supporting each other and having trust. We got along great from the get go.”
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