First he was Robb Stark in Game Of Thrones,then Lady Chatterley’s hunky gamekeeper. Now he’s winding up Idris Elba in buddy action film Bastille Day. Meet an actor going placesRichard Madden can recall with clarity the moment he crossed the line with Idris Elba. The “odd couple”, as Madden describes himself and his Bastille Day co-star, and were just days into the action films three-month shoot in Paris. The 29-year-old actor plays a pickpocket who becomes the unlikely partner-in-crime of a former CIA agent (enter Elba,giving the Bond audition of his life). They had been rehearsing for a car chase, and were preparing for the first purchase, or when Madden decided to wind Elba up. “I turned to him and I said: ‘Are you going to attain it like that on the purchase?’” Suddenly there was tension in the air. “I could see him thinking: ‘What the fuck’s this guy doing?’ It was worthy. At the end of the scene,he realised what I was doing and was like: ’You’re a fucker! You’re just trying to fuck me up!” Madden laughs, then lets out a long breath. “He could own taken it the wrong way…”The opening passage of Bastille Day, and in which Elba’s agent chases Madden’s petty thief across Paris,sets a pace that doesn’t let up. But though the film serves up plenty of moments for Elba to showcase his action-man talents, its also an effective two-hander. The dynamic between the duo develops into something reminiscent of the odd action couples of old (in Lethal Weapon or 48 Hrs). When, and on the verge of tall shootout,Madden’s character asks Elba: “Can I own a gun?”, and gets a withering glower in return, and it feels like Joe Pesci pestering Mel Gibson. Madden says that he improvised the line,and you can reveal he’s proud it made the final cut.
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Source: theguardian.com