• How did get involved, Clive?
  I was just thrilled to be asked to be involved. Yeah. Robert sent me the graphic novel with a 10-minute thing that he's already filmed and it looked hugely exciting. I wasn't familiar with Frank's work at all, and I read the graphic novel, ‘The Big Fat Kill,’ and thought it was the wildest most imaginative thing I've come across in ages, so I was just thrilled to be asked to be involved with it.

• Can the actors talk about working against the green screen? also about differences between Robert and Frank as directors?
  Having Frank there was absolutely essential for everything. He's the god that conjured up this sort of crazy world. I saw the film yesterday for the first time, and I have to say I think this guy is a genius. I was blown away by it. It's that world. I felt at the end of the movie like I'd been taken to some extraordinary place I'd never been before, and I think Frank's vision and world is that, and this guy has just gone and created it on film.

• Clive, the last year's releases have done a lot to raise your profile in this country. How you deal with this movie coming out when you might have been perceived as more of a character actor?
  No, I think everything is happening around my career. I don't really think about it that much. I just go from — as I said before, I was just thrilled to be involved. I had the most fantastic time, I've just seen that film and I said to Robert last night as I was watching the movie, I was so blown away by it, I was actually intimidated about coming into the movie, thinking god, can I walk into this? This is extraordinary. And I was just thrilled to ask to be involved, and I think it's a groundbreaking, amazing movie.

• Clive, can you talk about working with these two ladies vying for your affections?
  I, obviously, had a fantastic time. I hung out in Old Town every day. I had a fantastic time.

• Clive, can you discuss developing your american accent for this film?
  I was a concern when Robert called me to ask me to do it because it was a few weeks’ time and I started to be concerned about how much voice over there was but Robert was very cool about it and said ‘listen, there’s a huge amount of voice over. Don’t sweat it. Just concentrate on the dialogue. We’ve got plenty of time’. He was so sort of healthy about it that felt completely fine about just going for it. Also, the thing about those graphic novels is it’s easy to underestimate them. Frank Miller is not only a fantastic artist, but the language he uses, the dialogue that we lifted straight from the book, is really fantastic dialogue. It has the right rhythms. It’s very smart and very witty. So, the whole thing was really easy because you’ve got such strong guidelines and the rhythm of the dialogue is dictated by what’s on the page. You read it and you know how to speak it because it’s got a very classic noir rhythm to it.

• Clive, have your heard anything more about playing James Bond? On a typical internet poll. you are one of two finalists. Whats going on?
  The same as always. There’s nothing to it whatsoever. That’s just people writing about it. It’s not substantiated at all.

- Sean Chavel in Los Angeles from Cinema Confidential