His foray into action has been emphatic with the Transporter series. And Hollywood actor Jason Statham doesn’t mince his words as he candidly admits his respect for producer-director Luc Besson who let the audience see Jason in his elements in the series. Having made a space for himself in the entertainment biz, the actor feels not each and every role can be garbbed as one needs to find a fit. Currently, riding high on the box-office success of The Expendables 2, Jason feels the movie is not at all a complicated drama. In an e-mail interview the actor has nuggets on career moves, Hollywood and more. Excerpts: How challenging is it for an actor in Hollywood who had had worked with directors like Guy Ritchie, to begin with, to find himself in a decent project? What is most important is the director and the script and the story. I’m not just going to hop on a plane and go anywhere, even Hollywood. I wouldn’t turn up to do a job just because it was here. The glove has to fit the hand. There are so many talented people in all the countries all around the world. Making movies is great no matter where you are. Which role provided you the creative satisfaction as an actor — Lee Christmas or Frank Martin? That’s a tough one. Expendables 2 seems to have a little bit more humour in it. But I have to respect what Luc Besson did for me with the Transporter series. I do miss having those exceptionally well-crafted fight sequences. Is it difficult to break the standards created by action heroes like Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger et al? Well, you know what… you just have to be you. We’re so different anyway. Our personalities are different. I’m British. They are American. We carry ourselves differently. I think as an actor you always try to find your own little identity, something about how you can stand on your own. You find everybody who are all doing the same thing but we’re so different. Dolph (Lundgren) is different. Terry Crews, Randy (Quaid), everyone is just so different in their own way, but yet we all come together for the big showdown.
