Josh Lucas hyllar Ang Lee som främsta regissören

Josh Lucas, nu aktuell i Yellowstone spelade Bruce Banners antagonist, Talbot i Ang Lees Hulk från 2003 och i en ny intervju med The Playlist så sparar han inte på superlativen när det kommer till regissören. Han vill inte använda ordet geni men gör det ändå, i synnerhet eftersom tekniken inte alls var på samma nivå som den är i dag. Men det han gjorde med film redan då saknade motstycke. Med Lucas egna ord:

"If people ask me who my favorite directors are, I almost invariably will tell you my number one is Ang. I don't use this word genius, but I think he's truly up there as a, if not brilliant, genius filmmaker. Like you say, he was swinging for the rafters on Hulk. I don't think the technology was quite where his brain was. And if you look at what he did with Life of Pi, he was able to hit it out of the park."

Han berättade sedan om hur frustrerad Lee var över att CGI-teknologin inte levde upp till hans egna högt ställda förväntningar när han filmade Hulk, och hur han samtidigt blev en av dem som senare skulle driva utvecklingen framåt:

"I think the technology evolved, and he's one of the people who pushed the technology to evolve. I know he was pushing the team of people who were on the CGI of Hulk to make something that, technically, maybe wasn't capable of being at the level he wanted it yet. And so I think he was very frustrated with that movie by not being able to get what he wanted and what was in his brain."

När Hulk gjordes så fanns det ingen standardformel, inget facit för hur en superhjältefilm skulle skapas utan Lee fick improvisera och bygga sin egen mall för framgång. Han hade dock en ambitiös vision för filmen och gjorde saker för 20 år sedan som Lucas inte hade sett maken till:

"The way he was morphing, the way pages were flipping. I mean, he was creating a visual comic book, and I haven't seen anybody do it quite the same way he was doing it -- think about it, that's 20 years ago, right? So, there's an incredible auteur filmmaker beneath this monster, an early Marvel movie. I have nothing but respect for it."