{"id":28278,"date":"2012-09-06T12:37:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T11:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=28278"},"modified":"2013-01-07T18:09:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T18:09:45","slug":"dredds-karl-urban-on-playing-the-man-not-the-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/interviews\/dredds-karl-urban-on-playing-the-man-not-the-icon\/","title":{"rendered":"Dredd’s Karl Urban on “playing the man, not the icon”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Olivia Thirlby as Anderson and Karl Urban as Dredd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speaking exclusively to SciFiNow for the mammoth\u00a0Dredd<\/em>\u00a0feature in the latest issue<\/a>,\u00a0Star Trek<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Lord Of The Rings<\/em><\/a>\u00a0star\u00a0Karl Urban<\/a>\u00a0discussed how he approached the character of Dredd, refuting any suggestion that Mega-City One’s toughest lawman was any one-note, gun-toting future fascist.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, when you go into researching, investigating and playing a character, you try and make his as multidimensional and as multifaceted as you can,” explained Urban. “Every character \u2013 as we do in real life \u2013 has\u00a0 strong points of view and Dredd’s no exception. He has an incredibly strong set of codes and ethics and loyalties, and also he has this wonderful dry humour –\u00a0 it’s this humour where you’re almost not sure if he’s taking the piss, but you’re pretty sure he is, you know? That was really wonderful to play \u2013 very stubtle, really dry.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the first trailer broke<\/a>, fans were quick to point out a sort of Clint Eastwood timbre to his growl – Judge Dredd was originally inspired by Eastwood, after all – but the actor is quick to set the record straight.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn’t search to any other actors for guidelines to base this performance on,” said Urban, but what I did do was I read the comics extensively and in one of the comics that I read I found a passage which described Dredd’s voice like ‘a saw cutting through bone’. I kinda guessed, having had a big think about that, that the result is what you have in the film.<\/p>\n

“I kinda wanted him to be a quieter Dredd, a more lethal, tightly wound Dredd,” Urban continued. “I didn’t want want to do the hands-on-hips, shouty Dredd – that was of no interest<\/a>. It was important for me to find the man beneath the suit, not to go out there and with broad brushstrokes play the icon \u2013 define the human reality of a man tasked with the job of keeping law and order in a society that is on the brink of chaos and collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dredd<\/em>\u00a0is in cinemas from 7 September 2012.\u00a0Check out our massive, super-geeky review<\/a>, as well as\u00a09 pages of Judge Dredd content in the latest issue of SciFiNow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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