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Click here to view a recent interview Ben did with ASM TV. Interviews with the other cast members can be viewed by clicking on the desired clip from the list beside the main video. There is also a lengthy behind the scenes video here. Enjoy!
Most famously known as heartthrob Ryan Atwood on The O.C., Benjamin McKenzie is now working his way onto the silver screen, hoping to land himself bigger roles in blockbuster hits.
Despite an inspired turn in the indie gem Junebug, McKenzie is trying his hand in more commercial, genre-based movies, like his upcoming thriller 88 Minutes starring Al Pacino (Righteous Kill).
McKenzie’s main concern was the shift from a popular television series to a feature film. The young actor said his role selection was based on “picking things quite differently than The O.C. and teen films.”
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Welcome to the fictional Northwest Washington University, bitch! Benjamin McKenzie, best known for playing Ryan Atwood on The O.C., occasionally pops up as a smarmy forensics student in 88 Minutes, the Seattle-set Al Pacino thriller in theaters this Friday. We caught up with Ben to see if he’d be more generous with his spoken words than Ryan. And he was!
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You filmed 88 Minutes back in 2005, right?
BEN MCKENZIE: Yeah, we filmed it a little while ago. We were shooting The O.C. in L.A., and they were shooting the movie up in Vancouver, but they were on a Wednesday-to-Sunday schedule. So I was able to basically go up on weekends. It was two months of seven-day work weeks. Never worked that hard.
Was it strange going back and forth?
It was very weird. It felt half the time like I was daydreaming, like I wasn’t really working with Al Pacino and it was all in my imagination.
When you found out you were working with him, were you terrified?
Absolutely petrified. I had some time to rehearse with him a little bit before we started shooting, when I first got up there. I was just doing a wardrobe fitting and at the last minute, the director [Jon Avnet] calls me up and says Al wants to rehearse. So it ended up being just me, Al, the director, and the photographer in this huge lecture hall. I was fumbling all my lines, but he was so gracious and nonchalant about it.
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Source: redlasso.com
The Daily got the chance to catch up with actor Benjamin McKenzie, the star of “88 Minutes,” which will be released this Friday. In the film, Al Pacino plays a professor with a double life as a forensic scientist who lands a serial killer in death row. Before the execution can take place, he receives a phone call warning him that he has only 88 minutes to live and begins a frantic race to investigate many of the people involved, including a strange student played by McKenzie.
McKenzie talked about his experience working with Pacino, cross-dressing and his transition from “OC” star to feature films.
Question: Do you have any concerns that it may be difficult for audiences to separate Ryan from other characters that you now will play?
Benjamin McKenzie: Television is a very powerful medium, and to be on a show that had some success and kind of permeated the pop-cultural Zeitgeist to a degree, I think, makes people sort of associate you with that character more than they might if it were just a film or a more short-lived experience.
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