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Action Guy Jason Statham's Back in Transporter 3

Thursday November 27, 2008
Jason Statham returns as Frank Martin in the third film of the Transporter franchise, the appropriately titled Transporter 3. After playing Frank twice before, this is a character Statham has figured out - and one he admires in many ways. "He's much cooler than me," said Statham at the film's LA press conference. "I'm a bit of a fool deep down."

Asked how he's like Frank, Statham replied, "Luc [Besson] is ultimately responsible for the creation of Frank Martin and for me being in Hollywood right now. If it wasn't for Transporter 1, I don't think I'd be in this position. It's the first movie I ever did where I played a leading part, and certainly the first action movie I've ever done. It's great to have such a huge opportunity to do something like that and it takes a lot of balls to gamble on somebody that doesn't really have anything to sort of back that up. So to answer the question of am I like Frank Martin, apart from I'm able to put on a black suit and I have the same haircut, probably not." Read More...

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