So what did he get in the end? "I have a Range Rover - the big one, the proper Range Rover. I didn't end up getting it, but I kind of regret it." But then I thought, I'm living in a city where it's hard enough to avoid paparazzi (he lives in Los Angeles), so I thought, if I get a racing green Shelby Mustang with white stripes along the side, I'm pretty much ******. They had one in racing green with stripes on the side, and it was the coolest thing ever. "You know what I almost bought as well? A Shelby Mustang - I love the Shelby Mustang, the classic one. "I literally took one look at it," he says, trying to stave off the excitement in his voice, "and thought, oh, my, god." "I thought, maybe I'm being too hasty with the Aston, so I went to the classic car place in Chelsea to look at something else, walked in there, and there was an old E-Type Jaguar convertible, the V12 one." Ah, that'd be the Series III, then. I absolutely fell in love with it, took it for a test drive and thought, how cool is this? This is the studio where they made Bond, and some guy's selling an Aston in the car park, I should buy it."Ĭlearly, the sight and sounds of the Aston stirred up Gerard's inner Stig, because he then felt an urgent need to go see more classic machinery. "You know what happened? I was making Tomb Raider at Pinewood Studios, and I saw an Aston Martin DB6 for sale. It was a piece of ****," he laughs, but something in his voice suggests he might be into cars more than he lets on. "I just love classic BMWs and Mercedes - my first car in fact, was an old BMW, like a '79 BMW or something. ![]() That would be four or five days of bliss." "My stunt driver on the film Gamer - his name is Jeremy Fry - has also offered to take me to his stunt driving school. "It's so crazy that you mention driver training, because at the premiere of Olympus, one of the directors from McLaren came up to me and said, ‘I really want you to come and drive our cars'. So no need for any driver training, clearly, but the mere suggestion of this literally lights up GB's face. But a lot of the car accident is CGI - it's amazing what they pulled off." "We literally had a car on a bridge, tipping up, so it was very dangerous because it could have gone over at any moment. A freak accident leaves the President's armoured Cadillac - nicknamed ‘The Beast' - hanging over a precipice, and Banning jumps out to save him. Thankfully, the car crash at the beginning of the film that kicks off Gerard's character arc was marginally less dangerous. The whole thing swelled up and went black." ![]() I got a burn in my throat from a flicked cigarette (his throat was coated in glycerin), I bruised the back of my leg from my knee to my ass, and I chipped a bone in my forearm. It felt like someone took my finger and slammed it with a mallet. "I lost a fingernail - I banged it in a fight, and of all the injuries that I got, that was the most painful. "I broke two little bones in my neck," he tells me, as though reeling off his weekly shopping list.
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