I enjoyed Top Dog, Under Dog. WHOOSH #33 (06/99) An Interview with Marie Adams, Bret Ryan Rudnick. Exclusive interview with the star of DirecTV's ROGUE Marton Csokas on being on a television thriller, working with Thandie Newton and some of his other work I put myself down on tape in New Zealand for three big Hollywood films, and I thought “mmm, okay, some of the characters are quite interesting, the rebel or outsider or the mad person;” I like that kind of role. I’ve come pretty close sometimes, as I’m sure most of us have to some degree (laughs). So if I play a bad character, I look for their charm, their good points, the things that make them human. What the fuck! He became quite reflective and passed on a lot of stories that were, I imagine, what he thought were the most important things which at the time I didn’t want—I didn’t want life’s lessons I wanted to learn to be an actor! Did you learn any from your father? Interview with Marton Csokas, who plays Teddy in The Equalizer. But then again, that is true in life —I do have a relatively sunny disposition but there are other things that are going on inside me. Lise Millay Stevens is a freelance writer based in New York City. Marton met Eva when he was playing the intimidating husband in Ridley Scott's Crusades epic, Kingdom of Heaven. I saw Dance of Death [Strindberg] on Broadway and there were lots of things I loved about his performance. I like to have options. Offscreen: That’s an unfortunate choice of words. and often it comes down to an insipid end product. Trevor Goodchild in the film is more romantic, a lot more romantic. Offscreen: How does the Trevor Goodchild in the film differ from the character in the series? Csokas: Charlize is very committed, ambitious and exact, very precise, very beautiful. Lise Millay Stevens is a freelance writer based in New York City. So we were on strict diets and we ate separately from everyone else, which over a three-month period was a good idea because I certainly wouldn’t have lasted. Three years of work are coming out this year with heavy backing which I think says a lot. OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE. Offscreen: What about your prep for Captain Redding in The Great Raid. With the three people who headed the drama school, who were so obviously different, I was so frustrated, but then I realized, ah! Emily Beecham: “Yeah, absolutely. He wasn’t a very nice character and it was just a matter of not being responsible to people who I was close to. I looked at a lot of stuff on the Internet about people who beat each other with sticks and hammers but are still together. It can be wonderful and I try and hold on to friendships that I secure. Was the script difficult to work with? I like the nature of the work, they explore; it is an artistic process. I’ve read that some actors long for onset necking, but it’s not my first choice. Since then, he worked on numerous blockbuster movies like XXX, Alice in Wonderland, The Tree, Pawn, The Amazing Spiderman-2, The Equalizer, etc. Marton Csokas plays Francis Carver in The Luminaries. Since then he has appeared in interracial romance Broken English and coming of age story Rain, before starting a run of international roles — often as the villain — in everything from xXx to The Bourne Supremacy. Eleanor Catton - Writer, Creator and Executive Producer for Working Title Television, Mona Qureshi - Executive Producer for the BBC, Tim Bevan - Executive Producer for Working Title Television, Andrew Woodhead - Executive Producer for Working Title Television, Eric Fellner - Executive Producer for Working Title Television, Christian Vesper - Executive Producer for Fremantle, Claudia Bluemhuber - Executive Producer for Silver Reel, Tim White Executive Producer for Southern Light Films, Claire McCarthy - Director, Executive Producer. Csokas: I had a month to prepare for the role; I lost 15 kilos [33 lbs] in a month and then had to maintain that —and I like my food and drink, I can tell you that! Volume 9, Issue 10 / October 2005 It comes from England, from what I’ve seen. He’s staying in New Zealand for Lydia primarily and the first time we meet him, he suggests they should go away and start again. Offscreen: So you’re proud of your recent work? I think it says more about lack of knowledge of myself, the desire to escape, to flee who I am and not have the responsibility which I believe one has not to let everything go, which is different than accepting who one is and abandoning oneself to life. I mean, if I’m working and doing things that I love, that is the most important thing. I realized that, in part, is to keep that levity so it doesn’t drag you in and you have perspective; I learned that from him. But the scheming fortune-teller Lydia Wells (Eva Green) has other ideas for Anna, and lays a trap to ensure that the planned rendezvous between the young lovers never takes place. In England, I worked in a school for a couple of months. Set on the wild West coast of New Zealand’s South Island at the height of the 1860s gold rush, The Luminaries tells an intricately woven, suspenseful tale of love, murder, magic, and revenge. So it then fulfilled the expectations of the genre of film as opposed to an animated series. Csokas: I can’t tell you, but I got caught up in the work. I was meant to be sort of supervising —there was a virus that went through the school and a number of the teachers fell ill, so I was teaching— I wasn’t really, but, you know, I was supposed to be teaching, Latin, French, religious studies, music, physical education, the whole lot. An Interview with Marton Csokas, Bret Ryan Rudnick. Offscreen: So how else did you prepare for Edgar? I did do a little bit of that, try to get under the skin of the character. There’s another side of it that in my experience things happen the way that they do. Csokas: I tried to make Edgar, with this jealousy idea, the everyman instead of the loony. I’ve spent more time everywhere else. There really shouldn’t be a division. That was a little daunting and if there was any desire to be a teacher, it got well and truly thrown out of my system. The Luminaries | Interview with Marton Csokas (Francis Carver) 16th June 2020. You cease to engage in the film that is being made and the story that is being told and you feel like you’re apart from it. There is a system of cooperative theater in NZ —you get a small amount of money from somewhere, you get sponsors for your posters, for anything. His political exposition was very clear and when that disappeared, I felt, okay then, we have the emotional version, an ideology. But the bond between these star-crossed lovers is more than mere affinity. I looked at a lot of Art Brut and Jean de Buffet, his collection of outsider art and used that, more for my benefit than for that of the film. ; His mother’s name is Margaret Christine, a nurse and father’s name is Marton Csokas, a mechanical engineer. The script writers left out some things about John Forbes Nash, Jr. that aren’t very attractive to the average American viewer such as his homosexuality and the fact that he had a three-year affair during his marriage. Youtube: Interview with Marton Csokas for the movie The Equalizer Marton debuted in the film industry after starring in the 1994 short movie A Game with No Rules. Csokas: My knowledge of the language is minimal and having come from New Zealand, there were all these other places that I wanted to visit, so I went to Italy and then I went to France and then during the course of my trip I realized I wanted to do something where I could travel and have an income at the same time. Csokas: The material in an animated series wouldn’t really have lasted the distance for a feature film. One becomes more selective, and if it is two people, then you really put your heart and soul into it and acknowledge the fact that somebody else does as well and if that’s not occurring, then you keep going. This sounds so incredibly inane, but it’s always been part of my life; it comes and goes, I’ve lost it at times for a long time. Offscreen: What about all the chaos and wars and suffering? I mean, if you play a rapist, do you go out and rape somebody? Offscreen: So what you’re talking about is staying in touch with yourself? Csokas: It was filmed at High Royds Hospital in Leeds. I’m not a fan of it. But it’s great, because if you’re going to get depressed about something, Evilenko is a good way to do it. ; He has dual citizenship of Hungary and New Zealand. Offscreen: Asylum is a popular novel that got excellent reviews in literary circles. But it was just awful, just one day realizing “I’m going down here, this is such bullshit!”. Csokas: The esoteric aspect of life and the metaphysical aspects of life they are very, very important. Tumblr. You just have to get out of the discomfort. Offscreen: How do you come by such characters in Hollywood? Csokas: Trevor Goodchild is very different from the animated series. For me, the inner life of Francis Carver has been about wanting to honour that love that he has for her, whilst also, to a large extent, betraying his own instincts. Some of them strike gold and they wrestle with it. The actor is currently single, his starsign is Cancer and he is now 54 years of age. You’ve got some very good people working on it: Denzel Washington, Antoine Fuqua, and [cinematographer] Mauro Fiore; that triangle that did very well with Training Day.As an actor, to work with Denzel is … Csokas: I did it on the cheap —I slept in fields or train stations or youth hostels or whatever. Also —I was against this at first— we were put in a situation where we ate a cup of rice a day and slept on bamboo slats and were woken up five or six times at night to march around a fire in the cold. Upon returning to New Zealand, Csokas spent time at university and an arts school, eventually settling on acting as a vocation and winding up at the New Zealand Drama Academy. Reuniting with Marton Csokas In 2020, Eva reunited with her ex-boyfriend Marton Csokas to play on-screen lovers in the new New Zealand series “The Luminaries”, aired on the BBC. And these were for small, cameo kind of roles; the three were all bad guys. There's a good reason for the chemistry between Marton Csokas and Eva Green in The Luminaries… they were once a couple in real life. It was like —he’s a fascist!! Mix. His bio contains two full pages of accomplishments to date. Daughter of a father-writer and mother-humanitarian, she was raised in New York, Boston, Martha’s Vineyard, Barcelona (Spain) and Cleveland in the company of writers, artists and … Csokas: (Shaking his head emphatically) No; I loved working with Ian and Natasha. There was certainly a bonding time that occurred. The animated character is a lot more vindictive and masochistic. It’s really important to cultivate a social life too, for the same reasons, but to a different end. It was like “Wow!” I was so lucky and the money I was paid was like “Wow!” I mean I know I didn’t get anything near what people get, but it was fantastic. Nerves are good if you find a way to use them in the scene —it’s just pent-up energy that if you can let go…Ian’s very, very precise. They aren’t trying to put bums on seats and sell a nice shiny product that makes you feel good at the end of it. How would you describe The Luminaries?I think it’s a metaphor for existence. Offscreen: How was working with Charlize Theron? Offscreen: Did your friends or a lover or someone else clue you in, or did you realize it yourself? They taught a lot of things and I was fortunate, which I didn’t appreciate at the time, to have three artistic directors —it was a period of transition, the first director had been there 13 years when we arrived and he was retiring. So he wanders in some sort of nebulous world of trying to escape from that responsibility, if you like, and he doesn’t believe he is ill. Offscreen: Did you play it that he is truly in love with Stella or is he manipulating her so he can escape? Offscreen: Natasha Richardson was apparently quite embarrassed about the graphic sex scenes. The system is what it is – whether it is based on product placement, name value, beauty, youth, etc. Offscreen: You’ve played a lot of baddies. Sometimes he’s so naughty, it’s ridiculous …in the middle of a fucking take. Csokas: Well, if a beautiful woman (or man) walks into your life of six years without an intimate relationship —sex yes, because as I understand it there are all kinds of opportunities and things that go on in the necessity for one’s survival— but she’s also an object of escape internally and externally. He ends up falling in love with her, which saves him to some extent. I think there is a responsibility to find your own way. I was fortunate that the other person concerned was forgiving. I understand you traveled around Russia recently. I haven’t seen it yet, but the way we shot it, it had a certain amount of sadism but not to the point where the people became animated characters; they’re still human beings. “How do you feel when so and so dies?” It’s so bizarre. ELLE: You’ve played a lot of bad guys… MC: Bad is a subjective term. A film buff who was encouraged at an early age to stay up late and watch classics, she has worked with the Chicago Filmmakers, a group of independent filmmakers in the heart of Chicago, and currently chases down actors, directors, producers, writers and composers at film festivals to get a good story. From the moment they set foot on the shore of this new land they are met with things that they probably hadn’t imagined and their metal is tested, their ethics are tested, their morality is tested. Francis Carver is the son of a military man and a naval commander. Csokas: No, I don’t think I’m successful. Csokas: Yeah, exactly. At the end of the year, I thought, well, I don’t want to be in Sydney for various reasons so I went back and I got XXX within two weeks. Has your ego ever gotten out of control? Csokas: I feel very fortunate for the films that I’ve done, Evilenko being one of them, Asylum another; I treasure these. An interview with Marton Csokas ; An interview with Eleanor Catton; Interview with Claire McCarthy; Interview with Lisa Chatfield; Published: 13 June 2020. These things were very considered yet he gives it the air of having been spontaneous. To have intimate relationships and reconcile all that noise that I have inside myself to some place of connection with being conscious, this is good. It is dangerous to think, “Where will this role get me.” I like to be existential about it. Marton Csokas Talks THE EQUALIZER, Collaborating with Antoine Fuqua, His Character's Tattoos, and THE LORD OF THE RINGS By Steve Weintraub Published Sep … The first thing that really got me was an exhibition of German Expressionists, in London, people like Otto Dix, [Ernst Ludwig] Kirchner, George Grosz, all these kinds of people. Offscreen: Since your first taste of professionally paid acting work was in the Kiwi soap Shortland Street, how did you reconcile that with your desire for “art” and your eclectic training? Well that’s the whole point, isn’t it? All this is really irrelevant. NEWS PROVIDED BY BBC One Marton Csokas plays Francis Carver in The Luminaries. When you spend time by yourself I find it’s really important, to clear the static away. I think it’s incredibly undisciplined and not very interesting. I went over during the filming of Garage Days —we had a month off. Jan 29, 2017 - Explore Vercilla Bascombe's board "Marton Csokas" on Pinterest. 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