Barry Pepper
Barry Pepper
Barry Robert Pepperis a Canadian actor. He is best known for roles such as Private Daniel Jackson in Saving Private Ryan, Sergeant Michael Strank in Flags of Our Fathers, Dean Stanton in The Green Mile, Roger Maris in 61*, "Lucky" Ned Pepper in True Grit and Jonnie Goodboy Tyler in Battlefield Earth. He has been nominated for three Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Golden Globe Award. In 2011, for his role as Robert F. Kennedy in the miniseries The...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth4 April 1970
CityCampbell River, Canada
CountryCanada
Even if you play a villain, you do an injustice to him if he's just, like, programmed to do those things. It's always more complex.
Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.
It's nice not to be too boring.
I don't like to play the victim.
Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.
Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.
Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
I grew up playing everything from rugby, football, baseball, volleyball, bike races and boxing. I tried martial arts, loved to ride horses and I'm the youngest of three brothers, so it was a fiercely competitive family.
They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.
I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.
Be not that far from me, for trouble is near; haste Thee to help me. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me
It was sort of his 'Brando' moment - his very 'method' moment. He just absorbed it and continued on.
If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.