The Bromance Continues- Adrian Holmes Talks Red Riding Hood

PH: What I really liked about this film was the medieval setting, and I understand that filming took place in Vancouver, can you comment a bit on the setting? Did wearing that medieval armor help you really get into the character?
AH: Yeah, well Cindy Evans was the Costume Designer and she did an amazing job with all the costumes. Like any role the costumes are so important, as soon as you put them on it really helps you become the character. With the armor the Captain really came to life. We shot in the summertime so it was hot but the material they used was quite breathable so it definitely wasn’t as hot as it looked. We shot it in a sound stage in Burnaby which was great and they did a nice job with this village and made it look like it was outside. We had three sound stages and I was just in awe every day I walked on set.

PH: What was it like working with Catherine Hardwicke?
AH: It was a delight. She was very professional, prepared, passionate and excited to make a movie. She was like a kid in a candy store and at the end of the day when your energy got low she would bring chocolate to pick up our energy, and it worked. She was really sweet, very generous and we got along very well. We had a great time in London for the UK premiere and I’m really grateful to have met her.

PH: What about your thoughts working with Gary Oldman? I hear he’s a pretty funny guy off set.
AH: Gary Oldman’s great, I really loved working with him. He’s got a great sense of humour and I can’t say enough about that guy, he’s top-notch. I’ve always been a big fan of his ever since I saw Dracula so to work with him was surreal for me.

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‘Red Riding Hood’ Round Table Interview

Is there going to be a sequel? CH: I don’t think there will be a sequel… But yeah you never know.

What was it about Peter then?

SF: Well, everybody wants to be the hero, or sees themselves that way sometimes. What I loved about him is that he’s good the whole time, even though you may think he’s something strange or wrong with him. But really the whole time he’s trying to do the right guy. It’s better to want to be something, and strive to be that, than saying that’s who I am and I’ll just be myself, I guess.

Did you consider changing your name?
MI: In the world we live in today, with the Internet, if someone wanted to find out who your parents are, they could. Also I’m not ashamed of them. I’m very proud of them. When people say, oh you want to follow in their footsteps, I find it strange because what you kind of want to do is forge your own path, but at the same time acknowledging his.

What importance does a film like Mamma Mia have for you?

AS: The first thing I think about is that it really did bring joy to the world. It did. It’s a silly movie, but it was very successful in making people feel good about themselves, in their lives. They watch it over and over again, because they want that excitement, they want that high. A two-hour movie can transfer you to this whole other world… The enjoyment the audience gets from the movie is almost the same as what I had in my life at that time. I was really living with Meryl Streep, on a Greek island, in love. And I was getting to do I love most, which is singing.

Check out the entire interview here. Beware: one of Adrian Holmes' questions contains a major spoiler. 

Catherine & the Cast at UK Premiere

Also, at London's Apple Store

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Video Interviews from the Premiere

Gary Oldman & Adrian Holmes

Amanda Seyfried & Virginia Madsen

Shiloh Fernandez

Max Irons & Michael Shanks

Catherine Hardwicke & David Johnson

Adrian Holmes and Gary Oldman On Set

Too cute. Is there a bit of a bromance between Captain and Father Solomon? There have been a few interviews with Adrian Holmes over the past couple months and he always has the nicest things to say about Gary Oldman. You can find a few more pictures of the duo on Adrian Holmes' facebook page. 

Oh Captain, My Captain- More from Adrian Holmes

Adrian Holmes is all over the place nowadays promoting Frankie and Alice. Luckily for us, there always seems to be time to sneak in something about Red Riding Hood.

You also shot Red Riding Hood recently, with Amanda Seyfried and Catherine Hardwicke. Can you talk a bit about that experience and the character you play in that?

Adrian Holmes: Oh wow. That was wild, man. That was a really, really cool experience. Catherine Hardwicke is like a stick of dynamite. She has so much energy and she's very passionate about all her different projects. During the audition process, just seeing the way she was in the room, I was like, 'I have to work with this woman.' She's like a little kid in a candy store. I had a few callbacks for that and I ended up getting that part. I really connected with the character. There were a few other actors that I thought they would go with, but I got the job. Amanda was very cool but the highlight for me was working with Gary Oldman, who is one of the greatest character actors of our time. I play the Captain in the movie, his right-hand man. The movie is about this village that's been terrorized by this werewolf. They have summoned Father Solomon and his army of soldiers to help rid the village of this wolf. I play the Captain, who is Father Solomon's right-hand man. We're basically side-by-side throughout the whole film, Gary and I, battling this wolf. Again, it was really overwhelming to watch someone as great as Gary, seamlessly go in and out of character. He's so good with dialects too. He has this Austrian accent in the film and he just goes in and out of it so easily. He had a great sense of humor too, which was very cool to see. All the characters he's played over the years are so dark and crazy characters and I wasn't sure what to expect, but he was very light, very funny, made everyone feel comfortable and really connected well with me, seeing we had to work so close together throughout the whole film. So, Red Riding Hood I'm definitely looking forward to that. It comes out March 11.

Catherine directed the first Twilight and now there is this whole fascination with vampires and werewolves these days. Would you say the tone is similar or is it a different animal, so to speak, than the Twilight franchise?

Adrian Holmes: Yeah, Twilight is vampires and they have werewolves as well, but I think this has a darker feel than the Twilight movies. It's definitely a similar audience, but I think this one is going to be a little bit darker than those, but it still has that kind of a theme.

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Also, check out two other interviews with Holmes here.

Adrian Holmes Talks About Working with Gary Oldman

Adrian Holmes (Captain) spoke with Hollywood Chicago about his career, including working with Gary Oldman on Red Riding Hood:

HollywoodChicago.com: So you’re playing the ‘right hand man’ of Gary Oldman’s Father Solomon in the upcoming ‘Red Riding Hood.’ In working with an actor of Oldman’s caliber, did you have any difficulties meshing with his acting style or process?

Holmes: Gary Oldman is a king among men, he’s such a professional. He made me feel like I was one of his peers. You never know what you’re going to get when working with other actors, like ‘don’t look me in the eye,’ but Gary was the complete opposite. We’d go to dinner, and I would pick his brain, and he gave me some great advice. It was like a acting workshop, observing Gary Oldman on a daily basis, always giving 100 percent even in rehearsals. He set the tone and pace for every one on set. We were that much more focused and prepared being with him.

You can check out the rest of the interview here. 

Back in December, Holmes discussed Red Riding Hood in another interview, which you can find here.

Adrian Holmes Talks Red Riding Hood

Adrian Holmes, who plays "Captain" in the movie, talks about his Red Riding Hood experience, including working with Catherine Hardwicke, the interior winter set, and Gary Oldman's toothpick. Below is an excerpt from the interview about Red Riding Hood: 

And then you worked with Gary Oldman in the upcoming ‘Red Riding Hood’. That story terrified me as a kid and I can only imagine what it’s like with a werewolf.
Adrian Holmes: Yeah, it’s pretty cool. At the beginning of this year I felt that something big was coming. I felt that 2010 was going to be a good year for me and I felt that this summer there was something coming. I didn’t know what it was, but it was just in the back of my mind. And then sure enough right after my play–I did a musical called ‘Wild Party’ in Maine–and right after that I got this audition for ‘Red Riding Hood’ and I heard that Leonardo DiCaprio was attached to it. I thought that he was in the movie, but he was producing the movie. I didn’t know that Gary Oldman was in the movie. I didn’t know much about it. I knew that Catherine Hardwicke was directing it–she directed ‘Twilight’. I went in and had three or four call backs for the part and what a rush that was. Everybody was just so excited to be there and I think that’s because of Catherine. She really set the tone. She’s got a great energy and is very, very passionate about this movie and we had a lot of fun. That’s what I really liked about working on this.
     The sets were crazy. They were so elaborate, the detail that they put into building the sets. The whole movie was shot–most of it was shot on a soundstage, but we made it look like outside during the wintertime with snow and everything. We had all this incredible fake snow that they brought in. You walk in, and it’s the summertime that we shot in, it’s warm outside and it’s like this winter wonderland. It’s supposed to be cold and I’m wearing this captain’s garb, this really crazy soldier outfit and it was very comfortable, but it was quite warm after running around for hours. So we’re supposed to be cold, but yet you’re sweating and there was no cold air coming out of your mouth. But we made it work and I think it’s going to look visually stuning. The DP Mandy [Walker] was the DP on ‘Australia’. She was fantastic. So I know it’s going to look great.
     Gary Oldman was amazing. He’s one of the greatest character actors of our time and I’m one of his biggest fans. I didn’t know who was going to show up. I didn’t know if Dracula was going to show up or what, what kind of guy, but when we had the read through and he came in and really blew us all away because a lot of times stars don’t show up for the read through. They just show up when they have to be there and he came and he really committed and was really excited and gave us his all. What I really learned from him is that even in our rehearsals he gave us a hundred percent. Some actors in rehearsal will kind of go through the motions, but won’t really give you everything. But Gary would be there in jeans and a T-shirt and just giving a hundred percent to really let us know where we were at and what to expect from him. That made us all look at each other and go, ‘Okay, this is where we’re at.’ He was great. There was one time that I was looking for a toothpick on set and I asked him if he had a toothpick because he had one earlier. He said, ‘No. I don’t have a toothpick.’ Later on, one of the ADs comes to me with this little napkin all folded up and I said, ‘What’s this?’ He goes, ‘Compliments of Gary Oldman,’ and I open up the napkin and it’s just this toothpick. This single toothpick was folded up. I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ I looked over at him and he gave me this little wink. He’s just so funny. He had a great sense of humor and a big Beatles fan. Him and Lukas Haas, Lukas plays the guitar and so they’d be jamming all the time on set. Lukas would be playing Beatles tunes and the two of them would be harmonizing and singing Beatles songs. So we’d all have a little pow-wow in the corner in between takes, listening to the Beatles. It was just really fun and I miss that experience. I made a lot of great friendships in the process. Gary and I are still in touch which is great and it’s really helped sharpen my sword as an actor, having those experiences.

Adrian Holmes as stars in Frankie and Alice with Halle Berry. Check out the entire interview here.