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Jason Statham: Guy Ritchie
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Jason Statham's no stranger to the action film genre ... even the physically fit star admits that playing a guy who never gets to stop moving in Crank was an incredible challenge. Statham stars as a hit man who, as punishment for screwing up a job, is poisoned and must keep his adrenaline level up or else his heart will stop. That meant Statham pretty much never had a chance to catch his breath once the cameras were rolling.
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Born in Sydenham, England, Jason Statham was one of the best divers on the British team. He placed third in the Olympic trials on three different occasions, eventually placing 12th in the world. While training at the famed Crystal Palace National Sport Center in London, film crews and photographers pursued him as new talent for commercials and print campaigns. One of those jobs was a French Connection print ad where he met the owner of the company, who was ... executive producer of a film in preparation, LOCK STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS. Jason had a meeting with the director, Guy Ritchie, who gave him a role. He went on to work with Ritchie again in his next film SNATCH, starring opposite Brad Pitt and Benicio Del Toro.
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Jason Statham had just arrived on the set of the action thriller, War, at 9pm, in for a long night of shooting. Pre-wardrobe, the tough guy sat in sweats awaiting his call. Statham plays an FBI agent on the trail of the assassin Rogue.
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