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And you have a movie coming out, 'Kerosene Cowboys'? Who's your character?
No, no, no. 'Kerosene Cowboys' will hopefully not see the light of day. It never finished shooting. Kind of a project that had so much potential that just became a disaster, because of that and corrupt producers, basically ... production company. I don't think the money was necessarily there. And it's a shame, because it looked like they were putting together a pretty good project, and there hadn't really been a 'Top Gun'-type film since 'Top Gun.' So that would have been unique. I think it would have been successful, based simply off of some of the amazing aerial stuff they got. But I can't imagine that it could come out, and if it does, then I'd be very worried, because it was not finished. So that would mean it was slapped together.
That is a shame ... you had a good cast with you, Cam Gigandet, Bill Pullman, Troy Garity, Rachael Leigh Cook ...
It did, you know, and I was into it because I got to play ... I had like a goatee and a shaved head and a different look, and I got to play basically Ice Man, you know, Val Kilmer in 'Top Gun.' Play the bad guy. And in this film, I had a lot more to do off the planes, as well, more to do off the planes than 'Top Gun' did. It had some fun scenes. I could tell you stuff, but it would give it away ... but I don't know if people will ever see it, anyway. I'll just say this much: my character doesn't survive. I end up becoming kind of the hero by saving the day and realizing that I've been not a good person for a long time. I save the day, and I take out the terrorists, and let's just say they never filmed that.
[Laughing] What's interesting is, they filmed my gravestone, with everyone, Cam and Rachael and everyone, standing around my gravestone, kind of feeling down and a couple of them crying that I'd just passed away. But they never shot me [actually] dying, so it could be interesting if they actually try and put this together and just say, 'Yup, there he is, dead. Dead on the ground.'
Haha. Viewers would just have to assume you died, huh?
Yeah, exactly. 'Let's just take out all the drama, and just put it together.' But you never know. I mean, with Cam's success and, you know, possibly the success of ['Nikita'], and whatever might happen for the rest of the actors in that film, you know, they may try to find a way to put that together someday. But I can just say that none of us will give it the approval, unfortunately.