Eric Bana on making Chopper: ‘I knew we weren’t creating some kind of violence porn’

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Director Andrew Dominik and star Eric Bana recall filming the life of notorious criminal Mark ‘Chopper’ Read – in the actual prison where his stabbings took place

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It wasn’t until I actually met Mark that the script took shape. I got a sense of what he was like. He was all feeling. He had a few rules: he didn’t want to be portrayed taking any drugs, committing violence towards women, and nor could any of his poetry be included. All of those things are in the movie. I tried to give him the script while he was still in prison, so he could blow his top and then calm down. But he refused to read it.

As a first-time director, I found it pretty scary. The first week, we shot the worst and also the best shit. By the weekend, I had one film that looked like afilm and another that looked like a Carry On movie. I got rid of the Carry On stuff, then resisted the temptation to be a “good” director – one who meets his daily schedule. I just shot until I thought it was good.

 

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