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Leap Year actor says Leap Year sucks
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24th February 2010
Actor Matthew Goode has laid into his new movie a few days before it's even opened in cinemas. Like you were going to go and see it anyway.
I like Matthew Goode. He was effete and intense in Brideshead Revisited. He was weird and Germanic in Watchmen. He's also extremely honest in interviews. Repeat: I like Matthew Goode.
During a chat with The Telegraph, Goode unleashed a rant that probably won't do him any favours with Universal Pictures. Calling Leap Year "turgid" and "one of the worst films of 2010" was just the start.
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"The main reason I took it [was] so that I could come home at the weekends. It wasn't because of the script, trust me. I was told it was going to be like The Quiet Man with a Vaughan Williams soundtrack, but in the end it turned out to have pop music all over it.
Do I feel I let myself down? No. Was it a bad job? Yes, it was. But, you know, I had a nice time and I got paid."
Elsewhere, Goode revealed that he had auditioned for the role of Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit but he is reluctant to move to Hollywood.
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"If I lived in LA, I'd be schizophrenic after a week. I'd just sit in a hotel room with a shoebox full of weed going: 'I'm not fucking moving. If they want me, they can come here.'"P.S. Leap Year review coming this weekend!
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