Dave Bautista, WWE wrestler and star of the highly anticipated GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, has been doing the press rounds recently and has had some rather random things to say. He sat down with London Live to talk about GOTG, his love of British rom-coms and why he’s desperate to star in a Guy Ritchie flick.
On the idea of doing a remake of TWINS, starring himself and THE EXPENDABLES star Jason Statham:
“I would love to do that. I have been asked if I would want to work with him and, yeah, I am a huge Statham fan. I like the action stuff he does but I prefer the older stuff when he was doing the Guy Ritchie stuff, the dialogue stuff. SNATCH is one of my all-time favourite films. I want to do Quentin Tarantino and Scorsese stuff and that is definitely the stuff that I would aspire to do.”
On starring in a British rom-com:
“I love NOTTING HILL and I love FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL and I would totally be up for that.”
On wanting to do Shakespeare in the West End but finding it hard:
“When I started working with an acting coach the first thing we did was Shakespeare. We did selected scenes from Measure For Measure and The Taming Of The Shrew and I just felt odd about it but he said if you can do Shakespeare you can do anything. I would love to do Shakespeare but my problem is that I forget lines a lot, and with Shakespeare you have to be on the money and I don’t know if my little pea brain could memorise all that dialogue.”
On falling in love with London and being called and honorary Londoner:
“I love that. I came over for so many years with my wrestling and we were in and out so fast, and we came over and it was dreary and cold, we didn’t stay in the best hotels so the food was crap. Then when we came over to film this film, I was here for about six months and I was living in Richmond and I fell in love with it. My fiancee came over so we got to see the sights but most of the time I just wanted to be home and ride my bike around Richmond and Chiswick.”
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