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Cinema Blend has posted an informative interview with DJ Cotrona. This interview reveals how the initial casting process went, Cotrona's thoughts on GI Joe Retaliation director Jon Chu & Bruce Willis, injuries on set and more. After the his 2nd meeting with Jon Chu & co, he pretty much figured out that he would be playing Flint, which he was satisfied with since Flint is one of his favorite characters. More on the casting process:

It was a similar process to all of them. You get a phone, they tell you that they’re doing the movie and with films like, with properties like this, you usually don’t get a script early on and you get material you’re going to prepare for your audition, it doesn’t tell you what character you’re going to be playing. It’s all very vague. I met with Jon and we did some scenes together and then after that it was just a series of meetings. I sat down with Jon and just talked about the franchise and his vision for it, how I felt about it, what type of movie I would like to see it be and I was really pleased to see we have a lot of same opinions. And then again, I would do more meetings with Lorenzo and it was more of the same conversations. You know, you wait around while they’re trying to figure out the casting, to make it gel so the movie can actually get green lit. And then they called back again and asked me to actually come play.

Interestingly enough, some of the interviews included Jon Chu interviewing Cotrona where Cotrona role-played as Flint.

While Retaliation introduces Flint to the movieverse, there wasn't much revealed about his back story(compared to Lady Jaye). Here's what Cotrona had to say about that:

Yeah, you know, the Flint character in this film, we’re introducing. So, he’s kind of a younger version. So, you’re kind of watching his introduction into the... yeah, I mean the Flint we all know is leader. It’s him and Duke. We’re trying to illustrate it and hopefully if we continue more movies we’ll watch his full arc continue and we can watch him turn into the leader we’re used to seeing. But we see the things that, you know Flint’s kind of a hard ass who like to do things his own way. We see that with the way he is with Roadblock and the other guys. We know that the Flint and Lady Jaye storyline and where that goes, the beginning of that. So, we just want to hopefully get to grow it out a little more.

To prepare for filming, Cortrona trained with Team Temp out of Los Angeles and utilized a body for some of the death defying scenes in the movie. It turns out that some of the cast was injured during filming, and Cotrona accidentally broke someone's broken nose.

Cotrona was asked about how it was to be on set with Bruce Willis, and here's his response:

No, I’m from Connecticut, but all my family is in the tri-state area. So, it’s very much that thing, I feel like I grew up with the unfamous version of this guy, but as an actor to work with him, I learned so much He’s very spontaneous. He always brings something new. He’s always throwing curve balls and it’s those spontaneous moments that makes, you know, the best moments in movies and he, I learned a lot from him. I hope I get to work with him again.

Finally, here is what Cotrona wants to say to fans:

I just want fans of G.I. Joe, I want them to just enjoy the ride and understand that this is a movie made by fans for fans. So, we want this to be the G.I. Joe movie that fans have been waiting for and we think that we did a pretty good job.

The interview in its entirety can be read at Cinema Blend.... [Read More]

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