Eric Bana suggests his funny facet in Netflix comedy - The Straits times

Australian actor Eric Bana received his beginning as a comic on tv, but you might not comprehend it from his movie resume.

he's surest time-honored for motion-hero roles in movies such as Black Hawk Down (2001) and Lone Survivor (2013), and for taking up man's man constituents that put his brooding good appears to use (Deadfall, 2012; famous person Trek, 2009).

The 47-12 months-historical is now giving one of his infrequent comedy performances in the Netflix fashioned film special Correspondents.

He tells The Straits instances on the phone from his domestic base of Melbourne that he has now not had a great deal luck with comic roles.

"I wager there's not loads of comedies that are my trend of film. there is no longer that many that are the best suit. additionally, I in reality get sent much more dramas than I do comedies. I simply reply to the neatest thing I've study," he says.

In special Correspondents, written and directed through British comedian Ricky Gervais, Bana plays Frank, a cocky radio journalist who pretends to be in Ecuador on task with the gormless technician Ian (performed by way of Gervais) whereas they are nonetheless holed up in manhattan.

The chalk-and-cheese duo bicker and snipe at each different throughout the deception.

"I select the dry humour, it's more reality-based mostly, than the broader, wackier and greater actual comedy. I relish issues which are more persona-primarily based," he says of particular Correspondents.

Gervais and Bana workshopped new strains on location during photography in Toronto, which stood in for manhattan. Bana is no stranger to comedy administrators who like closing-minute tweaks. On the American comedy humorous people (2009), he worked with author-director Judd Apatow, who is regular for yelling new traces to actors while the camera is rolling.

"They (Gervais and Apatow) are identical in how they each enjoy ad-libbing and experimenting," he says. "Gervais and i would talk within the core of rolling, throughout a scene and try different things, and do different takes. It always felt very organic."

in the movie, alpha male Frank is generally disgusted by Ian, whom he views as bungling and ineffectual. Frank's verbal attacks on Ian are sharp, often draw back-inducingly so.

"It wasn't written like that. Frank wasn't as suggest on the page. but as we started filming, Ricky made changes."

Humiliation is certainly one of Gervais' hallmarks. He received reputation on the BBC comedy collection The office (2001-2003), which noticed his persona, manager David Brent, subjected to quite a few indignities.

"Ricky likes to be abused - he likes his personality to be abused. He concept it turned into humorous when Frank gets angry with Ian, so we improved on that as we went along," says Bana. "It became lousy, terrible, but he loves it and he is the boss."

• special Correspondents is obtainable on Netflix.