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Interview with Raz Adoti at the World Premiere of "Jarhead"

Raz Adoti on "Haven," "Hard Corps," and a "Doom" Sequel

By Rebecca Murray, About.com

Raz Adoti and Gina Salemi at the Premiere of "Jarhead"

Photo © Richard Chavez
Raz Adoti Explains the Premise of "Haven:" "It’s set in the Cayman Islands starring Orlando Bloom, Bill Paxton, Zoe Saldana, Vic Rasuk, Anthony Mackie, myself – directed by Frank E Flowers. And it’s a great cast, great director.

Basically it’s about a wealthy businessman - played by Bill Paxton - and he goes to the Cayman Islands because he’s got some tax issues in the states. He also goes there with a large sum of money. My character, Richie Rich, he’s owed money on the island. He thinks he’s like the local kind of bad boy, a gangster or whatever, but he’s really just a big fish in a small pond. So anyway, he ends up kind of chasing Bill Paxton’s character around the island trying to get the money.

There’s three or four parallel stories going on within. It’s really interesting. It’s a really interesting ride. Many dynamics and all the characters are well-rounded and three dimensional so it’s definitely fun."

Raz Adoti on Being a Part of a Large Cast of Characters: "It’s an ensemble piece and so it is what it is, and that’s what makes it so good. You’re not just focused on just one person’s journey. There are many journeys and we kind of intertwine a little bit as well. We kind of disperse and do our own thing in our own stories and then we come back. We blend into each other’s stories. It’s really intelligently done."

Raz Adoti's Initial Reaction to "Haven:" "I read it and I thought, ‘Wow.’ I was captivated. When I first read it it kind of reminded me of ‘Pulp Fiction’ a little bit, just because of the different stories. But it’s kind of more amalgamated than that. It is in sections but there’s a lot more cross-over within the stories."

Next Up for Raz Adoti: "I’m about to go to Vancouver, I think, to do a project called 'Hard Corps' with Vivica Fox and, I think, DMX and Jean-Claude Van Damme as well. I play a boxer in that and I help put this guy in jail, played by DMX. He gets out of jail early so my sister Vivica Fox hires a bodyguard, Van Damme, to protect me. I resent the whole thing of having a bodyguard in my space. I really don’t feel I need it.

It’s about putting away the bad guy and at the same time bringing him to justice. It’s a great cast and well written."

Raz Adoti Shares His Opinion on a "Doom" Sequel: Adoti, who co-starred as Duke in "Doom" with The Rock, Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike, believes there probably will be a "Doom 2." "Yeah, I hope so. It just got a tremendous reaction. To be honest, obviously I was at the premiere but then when it came out on Friday, I snuck into my local theater at the back with a baseball cap just to watch the audience reaction – with a real audience, you know? And they were cheering and clapping. When the first-person shooter came up, they just went bananas. There’s definitely an audience out there. People definitely love it. I think they’ll do another one."

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