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While promoting the SXSW 2008 opening night premiere of his card counting flick 21, actor Jim Sturgess spoke exclusively to IGN about his potential involvement in a Broadway musical based on 2002’s Spider-Man. According to rumors floating around the Web, the actor’s Across the Universe (a Beatle’s musical in which he performed all of his own songs) director Julie Taymor is working hard to make such a project a reality.
“I don’t know if I’m the man to do it,” said Sturgess when asked if he was the actor to fill Peter Parker’s musical shoes. “I mean, Julie’s [Taymor] definitely kind of making that project happen. We did some workshops, and me and Evan [Rachel Wood] just kind of went along and hung out and… you know, it was just an excuse to be with Julie again and work with Evan again. But that was kind of it; I don’t know any more other than that.”
A few weeks ago, I sat down with the charming Jim Sturgess, the up and coming 26 year old British actor best know for his role as Jude in the Beatles musical, Across the Universe. In the upcoming film 21, (based on the book Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich) Mr. Sturgess plays Ben Campbell, an MIT student who uses his math acumen to win millions playing blackjack in Vegas. During our conversation, Mr. Sturgess talked about what it was like playing a character who is based on a real life MIT alum, Jeffrey Ma ’94, filming in Las Vegas, and working with Kevin Spacey. Below is an excerpt:
The Tech: Are you happy with the final results of the film?
Jim Sturgess: Yeah, definitely. I saw it a while ago. When you’re making the film you have no concept of how kind of visual it’s going to look. Especially in the scenes when we’re playing cards and all that kind of stuff. While we were shooting those scenes it was fairly kind of tedious kind of work; pushing chips and flipping cards and all that kind of stuff. And then when you see the film you see how dramatic it looks. It was a shock to all of us, I think. The director [Robert Luketic] kept saying just trust me, trust me, it’s going to look great … stuff that you kind of don’t like doing as much. Actually you want to do the kind of big shouting scenes or all the meaty scenes or whatever. But we kind of stuck with it and I think it paid off.
21 (2008) 
