NEW SG Interview: Paul Bettany and Scott Charles Stewart – Priest0

by Michael Marano

Paul Bettany is a BAFTA-nominated actor who has acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He’s a hard man to pin down, given the wide variety of roles he’s had in a wide variety of movies. He’s played: a young Geoffrey Chaucer in A Knight’s Tale; a killer albino monk assassin in The Da Vinci Code; Russell Crowe’s “best friend” Charles in A Beautiful Mind and even Charles Darwin in Creation.

Scott Charles Stewart is a special effects expert who left George Lucas’ ILM to found his own company, The Orphanage, which contributed effects to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Iron Man, and maybe most notably, Korean director Joon-Ho Bong’s amazing monster movie The Host.

Stewart has recently started directing features, and with leading man Bettany has made a couple of religious themed action/horror films – Legion, about the Archangel Michael defending humanity from God’s wrath, and Priest, based very loosely on the Koreanmanhwa graphic novel series by Min-Woo Hyung, in which Catholic priests, who bear cross tattoos on their faces, have been trained to fight vampires.

In Priest, set in a future society after the Church has defeated the vampire hordes, Bettany plays a Priest named “Priest” who must re-enter the fray as the vampire menace reasserts itself.

I talked to Bettany and Stewart over the phone, right after the trailer for Priest debuted as a Super Bowl ad.

Read our exclusive interview with Paul Bettany and Scott Charles Stewart on SuicideGirls.com.