Summer’s here, and to celebrate, we’re diving into shark-infested horror!
This week on Say More, Mashable Entertainment Editor Kristy Puchko and Senior Creative Producer Mark Stetson welcomed Jai Courtney to the couch to talk Dangerous Animals.
The Australian actor has flexed his leading-man muscle in a series of blockbuster franchise action movies, from A Good Day to Die Hard to Divergent. But in Dangerous Animals, he takes a bite of a juicy character actor role, playing the villainous Tucker, a boat captain who takes on shark-cage dives, and sometimes feeds those tourists to the sharks for his own pleasure.
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Aussie horror auteur Sean Byrne directs Dangerous Animals, making this freaky film a follow-up to such critically heralded offerings as the grisly The Loved Ones and the deliciously demonic The Devil’s Candy.
On the Say More couch, Puchko and Courtney dug into what appealed to him about playing Tucker, how the role marks a shift in his career that began with Captain Boomerang in Suicide Squad, and how he made movie magic with an intense dance number in Dangerous Animals.
The captivating performer also muses on the path of his career, challenging the idea that such a thing is something an actor can really plan. Take a listen, and then plunge into the twisted pleasures of Dangerous Animals, which is now playing in theaters.
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