Henry Cavill Improvised That ‘Unhinged’ Tongue-Wagging, Nazi-Killing Moment in ‘Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’
variety.comGuy Ritchie‘s “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” may be based on secret, real-life WWII commandos, but that didn’t stop him up from upping the Nazi-killing brutality.
In a couple gleefully bloody scenes, Henry Cavill‘s character Major Gus March-Phillipps massacres Nazis while sticking his tongue out in a joyful, manic grin.
As it turns out, Cavill improvised the scene, which caught viewers’ attention in the action film’s first trailer. “It was a co-improvisation between Guy and myself,” Cavill told Variety at the film’s New York premiere Monday. “Guy said, ‘I want you to have more fun with it.
Stick your tongue out or something.’ And so we did and it stuck, as featured quite well in the trailer. That was the first moment where we decided Gus was going to be slightly unhinged in these moments, and that makes it more fun.” Writer Arash Amel, who adapted the 2014 book “Churchill’s Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII” by author Damien Lewis, said that the movie’s team took “creative liberties, but everything is rooted in truth.” “It was totally in the essence of Gus March-Phillipps to behave exactly in that way,” Amel said of Cavill’s improvised tongue-wagging. “He was the guy who blew up a bridge in Norway when he was told not to by British high command and almost got court marshalled.
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