The 25th 007 film, 007: No Time to Die, will be released on October 29 in Chinese mainland. Rami Marek, who won the 91st Academy Award for Best Actor in 2019 for his wonderful performance in "Bohemian Rhapsody", played the main villain Safin in the film, and had a pinnacle duel with James Bond, 007 Agent played by Daniel Craig. Recently, Rami Marek was interviewed by the Chinese media online about the role of Safin, and he said that I never wanted to justify the cruelty of this role, because he carried pure evil in him.
This is Rami Marek's first appearance in a 007 film, and he used to only see 007 on screen, but now has the opportunity to play with Daniel Craig, "He's my favorite Bond." Rami Marek believes that Daniel Craig played a bond with a rich inner world in 5 007 films. Rami Marek recalls that when he was a kid looking at 007 on the screen, he would think: Oh, well, he was an agent. "I can look at him from a distance, but I can't understand his behavior as a person and I can't have emotional attachments with him." But Daniel Craig's 007 changed his impression, "Feeling that this Bond is closer to me, closer than ever, Daniel really gives this character a human connotation, and also allows the audience to see this character from a new perspective." 」 ”
Rami Marek had the opportunity to star in 007: No Time to Die, and he was very excited: "Oh! It's a shame I have to knock this man down now. "But anyway, that's the rule of playing the villain," and I followed those rules very seriously. ”
Rami Marek has his own opinion on how to play the villain role well, and he believes that the way these villains see the world is relatively distorted, so it is not easy to enter the hearts of these characters. "These villains are paranoid that what they're doing is for the good of all of humanity." He admits that it is difficult to establish empathy with Safine in the film, "Safine experienced a traumatic event in childhood, but I don't think that trauma itself can have enough negative effects on this character." But either way, Rami Marek tries to dig deeper into Safin's heart and how he came up with such a frightening way of acting.
The first day of Rami Marek's group was filmed on an ice lake in Norway, because the ice lake was melting and the ice was getting thinner day by day, so every day after the shooting was completed, the number of staff on the lake had to be reduced the next day. This creates an atmosphere of nervousness in Rami Marek's psyche, and this feeling is the sense of urgency that the main villain Safin brings, but helps him to play the character well.
In the studio of the famous Pinewood Studios in the United Kingdom, Rami Marek saw the grand set created for the 007 series and was amazed, "We want to pay tribute to the set that Ken Adam created for the early 007 films, and our art director Mark Tilldisley tried to create a scene that can be deeply imprinted in the audience's mind, and I think the scene in "No Time to Die" will make everyone very memorable." 」 ”
At the end of the film, Safin is in a poisonous garden with a huge pool of water, and Safin and Bond have a real duel, "This scene is unforgettable for the two of us, something magical happened during filming, it was a wonderful chemical reaction between the actors. When shooting with Daniel Craig, you have to do your best to help him, because he shows the highest level every moment, and I like to challenge myself to the highest level. ”