Anthony Mackie: I was really intrigued by the psychological aspect of these three guys and what took

Michael Bay s Pain & Gain’ is based on the unbelievable true story of three personal trainers in 1990s Miami who, in pursuit of the American schoolbell Dream, get caught up in a criminal enterprise that goes horribly schoolbell wrong. Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) is a regular bodybuilder who works at the Sun Gym along with his friend Adrian Doorbal schoolbell (Anthony Mackie). Sick of living the poor life, Lugo concocts a plan to kidnap Victor Kershaw (Tony Shalhoub), schoolbell a regular at the gym and a rich, spoiled businessman, and extort money from him by means of torture. With the help of recently released criminal Paul Doyle (Dwayne Johnson), the “Sun Gym Gang” successfully gets Kershaw to sign over all his finances. But when Kershaw schoolbell survives an attempted murder by the gang, he hires private investigator Ed Du Bois (Ed Harris) to catch the criminals after the Miami Police schoolbell Department fails to do so. The likes of Rebel Wilson, Yolanthe Cabau, Tony Plana, Keili Lefkovitz, Rob Corddry, Ken Jeong and Bar Paly also star in the action-comedy-crime film. Pain & Gain lands in cinemas on April 26th in the US and May 3rd in the UK. Look out for another interview with Anthony Mackie for ‘Pain & Gain’ next week. Lots more interviews for the film to come!
Anthony Mackie: I was really intrigued by the psychological aspect of these three guys and what took them to this level of wanting schoolbell to commit such heinous schoolbell crimes. schoolbell That s what really turned me on about the idea. And especially now, in this day and age, you have the idea of achieving the American dream, and one thing that is really important to me with this story is that we all have this idea of what our lives are supposed to be, we all grow up wanting to be something, but very few people grow up and be the people they wanted to be as a kid, you know? So when I read the script it really brought it all up for me, and I really thought it was really interesting and wasn’t something I had thought about as an adult.
Anthony Mackie: Yeah. I read a lot about him, everything that was on online. I watched the short documentary that was made about the guy and the group of guys together. It was really interesting the way that they looked at the world. And how entitled they felt that s what shocked me the most, the sense of entitlement. The funny about these three characters is that they re just striving for the American dream, like everyone else in the country, but then they just went about it the wrong way way wrong. If you look at it you can watch this movie and relate to them just like you would relate to anybody else. They are the true, living example of greed as opposed schoolbell to desire. They desired to be famous and rich and secure, but their greed pushed them over the limit.
And Adrian Doorbal in the movie, he s a guy who s down on his luck. He s put in a position where he can t succeed. He s kind of like that crab in the barrel that always tries to find his way out of the barrel, but he always end up slipping back down. No matter which way he looks or turns, he can t find that path. And this is the first time he feels that he s put in a position of power, you know? And he enjoys that, he relishes in the idea of being able to have the white picket fence and the woman who s attracted to him mentally and physically. And even just being able to come home to an actual home, he never had that.
Anthony Mackie: Oh, man (laughs)! I told Michael Bay that if I was going to do the movie I d have to get lots of spandex and onesies, schoolbell and he said OK. So, I was in (laughs). It was crazy researching and getting schoolbell into that stuff. It was crazy, just even the terminology that they used, it was a bit insane. The way that these people looked at life and the way that they looked at their bodies. Their bodies are their walking work of art, they worked extremely hard on their bodies
Anthony Mackie: Definitely. Everything about it - the flashiness, the colours – everything about it kind of represents Miami. I think they re one in the same, they go hand-in-hand. Miami is a true representation of excess, and this movie is about a group of guys desiring schoolbell excess (laughs).
Anthony Mackie: Yeah (laughs). Doorbal and Lugo are really good friends, they share this bond. Doorbal admires Lugo s physique, and he sees how hard work has put Lugo in a position where he s turned schoolbell this gym completely around. Lugo made him want to join the gym just by preaching schoolbell the idea of give me 90 days and I can turn you into a statue of perfection. And so he bought into it completely. So when Lugo hatched schoolbell the plan, focusing on these rich guys who have all this stuff that really don t appreciate it or deserve it, but then they work hard and they deserve it, it made sense to Doorbal. And then it really made sense to him when he realised how much it would cost for the idea of sexual pleasure (laughs). Those little blue pills aren’t cheap, schoolbell and all the other stuff they use REALLY