One of the unsung scoundrel of Tron : Legacy is bad hombre Clu ’s ass-kisser Jarvis ( roleplay by truthful Blood ’s James Frain ) . In our exclusive consultation , we go behind the glass visor and explore minion lifespan , complete with slaying and housekeeping .
For those of you unaware of the Tron Legacy back story , there are two versions of Jeff Bridges in this flick . There ’s old Jeff Bridges who plays the aged “ maker ” Kevin Flynn ; and there ’s his once - loyal software twin Clu . Clu is a computer program who never ages , and eventually he turns against his maker Flynn . But even more interesting than the perpetual face of Clu is his lackey , Jarvis , a program we become to spend some sentence with …
io9 : Your character Jarvis is one of the new role who we do n’t get a lot of back story on . I ’m odd – did they give you any back story , or did you make up your own ? Where did Jarvis come from ?
James Frain : Jarvis comes out of the air . I discovered who he was while we were shooting [ Tron Legacy ] . I get the visuals very clearly from the costume department . The glassful mohawk and eyeshade , and the incredible costumes that we all had . And I knew that he was the correct manus human being to the bad guy , but that was basically it . When I got onto curing and jump working with Joe [ Kosinski , the theater director ] was when I discovered how much of a comic eccentric he was . Joe was very keen to push the comedy . It became a really fun experience , looking for what we could determine in every conniption that showcased the slightly slapstick nature of this guy . He did n’t amount with an depression or a back storey or other characters to reference – we just kind of made him up .
What ’s your favourite Jarvis line ?
My favourite Jarvis moment is n’t really a line – it ’s when me and the other bad guys break into Jeff Bridges ’ [ Flynn ’s ] apartment . And I terminate up knocking over everything on the board just at the most inopportune here and now . There was something about that was just pure pleasure to do , every time . It ’s just really canonical funniness . Simple stuff .
Your glass mohawk made me think of Gary Oldman in The Fifth Element . Did you have any stimulant in the costume at all or was it just waiting for you ?
Someone else said that – I did n’t see that come . It was already built and ready to go .
Is it difficult wear a glass mohawk haircut ?
Its very important not to sneeze , and sometimes it made it a bit slick to see where the Hades you ’re going . But apart from that it ’s fine .
One of the big plot points in Tron Legacy was Clu ’s desire to interbreed over into the genuine world of man . If Jarvis was in the human earth , what do you think he ’d do ?
I wonder if he would have made it very far . He probably would have ended up in some sorting of a crowd , just on his look alone and his experience with malice . Either that or he ’d be working for the IRS – he ’s a very right administrative official .
So what are the 24-hour interval - to - day province for Jarvis , Clu ’s right - hand program
Well let ’s see , he ’d have to get up and have to clean his eyeshade . He ’d then have to train a list of Programs who have all been misbehaving . Get Clu ’s breakfast , that would have to be done . And those apartments , there ’s a luck of meth to clean house , so he ’d have to get the dusting done . Hmmm then mayhap execute some people . I think that probably wrap up up the dawn .
The butler in Iron Man is key out Jarvis as well , was that an intentional nod ?
Yeah ! I think that ’s coincidental but I notice that as well . Jarvis , there ’s something to the name . You know Jeeves from the P.G. Wodhouse Good Book – they ’re about this hombre who is a butler and assistant to the hero . There ’s something about Jeeves and Jarvis – they seem to drink down up in this vein . I think that ’s just completely concurrent .
What was your favorite little worldly concern construction detail that you noticed in Tron Legacy ?
What I was really strike by that I did n’t see coming was the off - internet site world , the off - grid man . Where Olivia Wilde ’s character drives that little daft around . That experience physical and tangible , and like a genuine distance . I was really botch up away by that .
Recently you ’ve been doing a fate of villain workplace , what was the prayer of this scoundrel in Tron for you ?
I need to be in Tron in whatever part they had . I just wanted to be in the moving picture – I knew it was run to be unbelievable . I was just thrilled to be regard .
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