Guts And Glory
Jamie Campbell Bower opened up to Collider about a variety of different topics ranging from his new movie The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones to his future project. Highlights can be found below.
On preparing for his role as Jace in TMI: “I did four and a half months of training. I did Krav Maga. I did circuit training every day. And then, I actually called up Robert Kulzer and the producers of Constantine and asked them if I could go out a month before I was originally meant to go out anyway, to go and train with the stunt guys, to go and be with them, because I’d had a great chat with Harald, and we came to the conclusion that whatever I could do, I should do. So, I do 99 percent of what you see. I’m not saying there’s a hundred stunts in the movie. There might be one hundred stunts. (laughs) But there’s only one that I didn’t do. It was great to be able to go out there and create a style and put my fighting style into how Jace is fighting, but it was tough.”
On keeping in touch with the cast of Twilight: “It’s amazing. What’s great about the friends that I made on that set and where we’re at now, where I’m at particularly, is that I can go to those people and I can be like, ‘This is crazy’ and they’re like, ‘Yeah. It is. It’s nuts.’ And it’s great to have that support and it’s great to have those friendships. On the last two Twilight movies, there were 72 of us.”
On other projects he is working on: “Yes. My music. I’m working on my music a lot, like folk singing, guitar. It’s sort of rocky, folky, alty, angsty. I’m putting a lot of energy into that. I write pretty much all the time. I wrote a song yesterday actually. So my music is a big thing. There’s a couple of projects that I really want to be a part of, but I’m not going to be that guy and sit here and name drop in the hope that maybe they’ll read it. So yeah, we’ll see. I mean, it’s a very exciting and interesting time for me right now personally and career-wise. I’m stoked to be here.”
You can check out more from Jamie’s interview here. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is in theaters now so go check it out!