Tijdens een interview met ComingSoon praatte acteur James Marsden onder andere over een mogelijke terugkeer in X-Men: First Class, en over zijn rol in de comedy Death at a Funeral. Het betreft een remake van het origineel uit 2007, en heeft dan ook ongeveer dezelfde insteek. Als de vader overlijdt komt de hele familie samen om afscheid te nemen, echter dit afscheid loopt compleet uit de hand, er ligt namelijk een verkeerd lichaam in de kist.
Het personage van Marsden werd door ComingSoon bestempeld als het beste uit de film, getuige zijn reactie. When I read the script I thought selfishly this was the best character in the movie. That might come off as really bold or arrogant but to me this guy is involuntarily on an acid trip at a predominately black funeral. You've got to really work hard to screw that up. I was on the plane reading the script and I was laughing at what he had to endure and go through. The woman sitting next to me is going, "Stop laughing. Nothing is that funny. What are you laughing at?" I didn't know that the British film had been made already so I was getting really excited that this was just an original idea and a great farce. Then I saw the British film - the original which was really well executed and Alan Tudyk who played my role in that film was perfect. So that was really my work that was cut out for me. How do you improve upon or just do your own thing when he knocked it out of the park.
You're on this acid trip throughout the entire movie. It's not just one or two scenes, so was it hard you for to keep up that frame of mind?
Marsden: Yes, especially when you're not really high. When you're making a film, it's a very technical process. You do things over and over again and you have to hit your marks and your light and all that stuff. Within that is your sort of playground to create whatever you're going to create. What I realized and what Zoe [Saldana] keeps reminding me is that I was on acid for two months.
Verder praatte men kort over een mogelijke terugkeer in X-Men: First Class. Marsden speelde in de eerste drie X-Men films de rol van Scott Summers, ofwel Cyclops, en men vroeg of hij terug zou keren om die rol wederom te spelen.
I would not think twice about being part of any incarnation of the "X-Men" films. Another one I know nothing about but we got to be very close on those movies. It was a family and a formula that really worked. That would really excite me and please me to go back to that. You just have to cross your fingers and hope that it comes together. You want nothing more as an actor to be doing work that people love and the couple of "X-Men" movies that I was lucky to be a part of were examples of films that worked on so many different levels. It's so rare to be a part of something like that.
Death at a Funeral komt op 15 juli uit in de Nederlandse bioscopen. Bekijk hieronder een trailer van de film.
