Action movies, car movies, chase movies, capers. As such, it would feature only a single word as its title: Snatch, Crank, Collateral, London, War, Redemption. It's a real past.Īll this makes it easy to become a kind of hostage to his storytelling, like someone stuffed in the trunk while he drives, like some mook in a Jason Statham movie. He came from elsewhere, and it doesn't bother him all that much to remind people of that. Everything declares: He wasn't made in the Hollywood Hills. Drawn from instincts developed as a high-level athlete (twelve years spent on the British national diving team), lessons learned working the stony streets of London, axioms earned while living on thick and rubber-banded cold rolls of cash, everything Statham says stinks of truth. Statham talks like a man who knows things, who understands the physics at play. Because if you're landing on your nuts, as a bloke, believe me, it's no fun.' You find a way that you're not gonna go over and do yourself a disservice. 'I just don't think he knew what he was doing. Even when talking about Mad Harry, the fuckup diver. He doesn't scowl or use a tagline or fall into an eyebrow routine. It seems to amuse him that he intimidates.

He regards things sideways, incredulous at the very prospect of them, constantly asking: Who's this, then? Eyes screw in tighter, brows rise more with each sentence. Somehow he always looks pissed off, wrung out, put upon. And when Statham looks at an audience of one, really looks at you, it feels like you may be in a little trouble. He swears the way you wish everybody could, the way some people hope to use exclamation points, as an imprint of enthusiasm. He is not a big man-he is fit, light on those bare feet, and younger looking than his forty-seven years-and he doesn't stop talking. He is folded into a chair, shrinking downward, feet bare. It's wider rather than deeper, so that every room feels long from left to right and shallow from front to back. His house spreads the broad way along a downward pitch in the Hollywood Hills. The terrazzo on which Statham sits is a garden of high-end rattan furnishings.

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