We’ve never had an accident – I hope this is wood – on my movies.īeing in Istanbul was exactly the same deal. After all, we are surrounded by professionals, who know their jobs very well. You try to do your best to avoid anything. And we were shooting… it was like a nightmare. When I helped Xavier Gens to shoot Hitman, I was in South Africa, a township. How difficult was it to film around these people, and did it spoil any shots?Įverywhere’s the same – it’s not only in Istanbul, it’s everywhere. We’ve heard that the residents of Istanbul were determined not to let the film disrupt their daily lives. It always happened like this, on Transporter 3 and Colombiana. Maybe this sequence is a little too long, maybe do the action scenes this way, and not that way. After reading the script, I had a lot of conferences with him and Robert in LA, just for an afternoon. He saw that I was a good guy to do the job, so he left me like this.
So no, he was like a producer – he came three times on the shoot for one hour, and when I finished, he told me, “I don’t want to see anything before you’ve finished the first cut.” And when I’m not happy, I’m exactly like him, I’m biting. So he knows if he was around, it would change a lot of things, and I wouldn’t be happy about it. I work a lot, and everybody around me works a lot to make the best. He doesn’t trust me because he likes me, it’s because I’m like him – when I’ve got something, I’m like a dog with a bone.