There are a lot of people who grew up with the Lone Ranger, and they are very nostalgic for the character. I had a real sense of respect for the character. Beyond the normal desire to get a part right, did you feel any special obligation playing this legendary character?Ī. Sometimes, we’d travel from base camp to the set on horseback. What was it like to ride a horse in a movie?Ī. Even the spaghetti Westerns took place here. You can make them anywhere, but they have to take place in the American frontier. You can make forms of it elsewhere, but it’s not the real thing. It’s like bourbon has to be made in Kentucky and Champagne has to be made in France. I’d never say this on an international press tour, but I think it is an exclusively American thing. I was always a fan of Westerns, and I am still a fan of Westerns. I was told to continue doing my research and going forward with my preparations as though nothing had happened.Ī. I kept getting calls from Gore and Jerry telling me that this was a standard negotiation technique, and that they had gone through this before with the studio. You must have thought it was a terrible bit of bad luck.Ī. It was like “OK, you have a job, but now it’s on hold.” It was before we ever got to New Mexico to start filming the movie. It has been well-reported that Disney brass balked at the movie’s budget (reported originally to be in the $250 million neighborhood, but eventually moved to a more manageable neighborhood) and halted production.
He knew their families and their histories, and showed an interest in their lives. He was more collaborative than you could ever imagine, and he probably was more collaborative than he needed to be. Being sequestered in the middle of the desert for eight months certainly helped foster that feeling. After a week, I forgot that this was the same crew that did “Pirates of the Caribbean.” This was the “Lone Ranger” crew. Once I showed up, the atmosphere was totally collaborative. Were you intimidated at all when you walked into a project as an outsider and Johnny, director Gore Verbinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer all worked together on the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies?Ī.
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I grew up being a big fan of the TV show because every time it was on, my dad would say, “Hey, Armie, get over here and watch this.” He would break down the show for me. I can’t speak for my entire generation, but what I can say is that I was familiar with the Lone Ranger because my dad was familiar with the Lone Ranger. What does the Lone Ranger mean to your generation?Ī. They definitely did, but they accepted the fact that to be a good parent, you have to be happy when your child has a passion. Still, they expected you to go into the family business?Ī. For my mom, it was when I got hired to play Billy Graham (“Billy Graham: The Early Years” in 2008). For my dad, it was when I got hired to play Batman (in a 2007 film that wasn’t made).
At what point did each of them accept you?Ī.
In the new film, which reunites producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski with their “Pirates of the Caribbean” star Depp, Hammer portrays straight-arrow John Reid, who must put on the white hat and the black mask to fight the villainous Butch Cavendish gang after the murder of Reid’s brother. Edgar” and the prince in “Mirror, Mirror,” was born in Los Angeles, but lived in Dallas and the Cayman Islands before the family returned to Southern California. The 26-year-old Hammer, best-known for playing both Winklevoss twins in David Fincher’s celebrated film “The Social Network,” Clyde Tolson in Clint Eastwood’s “J. Johnny Depp plays the Masked Man’s faithful (and witty) Comanche companion, Tonto. The great-grandson of industrialist, art collector and philanthropist Armand Hammer plays the title character in Disney’s big-budget Western “The Lone Ranger,” which opened this week. Armie Hammer was born with a silver spoon, but now he is making his own path on the back of a white stallion named Silver.
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