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Stills life: Tony Mortimer

SL: Tony Mortimer: Wesley Snipes in Blade
What film have you seen most often?
Blade, I really like this martial art gothic mix; love it, love it, love it. I hope one day to be in a martial art movie, even as an extra
Photograph: The Kobal Collection/Kobal
SL: Tony Mortimer: Mel Gibson in Braveheart
What's the best film you've ever seen?
Braveheart, a wonderful story of following your desires and dreams whatever the cost. There's a great tune on the soundtrack called 'The Secret Wedding'. A fantastic Celtic epic and a must-see if you haven't yet
Photograph: Cine Text / Allstar/CineText/Allstar
Tony Mortimer - film I've never seen
What's the best film you've never seen?
I'm gonna have to say the obvious: I don't know because I haven't seen it yet. Photograph: Josef Scaylea/Corbis
Photograph: Josef Scaylea/Corbis
SL: Tony Mortimer: A scene from The Descent
What scares you?
Claustrophobia. Damn, I just hate those tight spaces, gimme room. My worst nightmare would have to be pot-holing I think. No matter how much money they offered me to make The Descent, it would never happen.
Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive
SL: Tony Mortimer: The Strangers
What angers you?
Bad story lines, like in The Strangers when the victim locks all the doors and windows, and then the attacker suddenly appears inside the house. That gets to me because it just makes no sense. I call this technique "cheating" - it's sad and cheap
Photograph: PR
SL: Tony Mortimer: Ben Stiller in Dodgeball
What amuses you?
Ben Stiller films. Also Adam Sandler, but mostly Stiller stuff, he doesn't even have to speak because his expressions have all the fun in them; he's just so helpless at everything.
Photograph: c.20thC.Fox/Everett/REX FEATURES/Everett/Rex Features
SL: Tony Mortimer: Enter the Dragon
If you were a baddie, who would you be?
Bolo Yeung [here wearing the white trousers in Enter the Dragon]. The coolest bad dude on the planet, bar none
Photograph: The Kobal Collection/Kobal
SL: Tony Mortimer: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
What's the most striking landscape you've seen on film?
Probably the New Zealand set of Lord of the Rings and the whole Middle Earth thing, that was amazing and enhanced by the CGI it's second to none
Photograph: PR
SL: Tony Mortimer: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Who do you wish you looked like?
Arnold Schwarzenegger
. But I've got genetics closer to Arnold from Happy Days. Unfortunately, progress is just plain hard work and nearly impossible for some of us
Photograph: Dirck Halstead/Getty
SL: Tony Mortimer: Steve Martin
Who do you think you look like?
Steve Martin
Photograph: PR
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