LOS ANGELES: Here’s what Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen, Olivier Megaton, Jason Statham, Natalya Rudakova and Robert Knepper had to tell us about “Transporter 3”:We talk to a lot of actors who tell us that after they do a role, they like to go back and refine and tweak it into something different. Now that you've had two opportunities to do that with this character, can you talk a little bit about how you've refined him?JASON: Well I think on the third one we found his weakness. And it all lies within this lovely female here (points to Natalya and laughs). You know, obviously it's about the creative aspects of how are we going to make this one a little more interesting, how do you make Frank Martin more vulnerable? And at the same time, you always have to try and exceed what you did in the previous two, which is so difficult these days, because there's so much to live up to of what Luc created with the character in fact. So, there are always challenges and hopefully we've made this one interesting enough.Do you have to condition yourself as an actor for this movie due to the physical challenges?JASON: I wouldn't say there was anything, we actually learned a lot with what you have to get ready for physically, I mean the fight sequences always pose a certain challenge and if you're not physically sort of ready, if you don't hit the gym and you're not stretched out, you're going to get injured very quickly. So, it's basically, you learn that from making the first one, that you have to be very efficient with your preparations. So, we try to give as much time as we can, way, way before we start the first filming. Jason, did your swimming experience help you in terms of the underwater scenes you did?JASON: Absolutely not, no. (laughter) I can remember I used to do diving years ago, but there's, you know, you have to hold your breath for about two seconds, you dive in and you come straight to the surface. So, I actually learned to scuba dive for the first one, with a good friend of Luc's, Jean-Marc Bour, (laughs) who's probably the best person you could ever learn to scuba dive with. A little bit unorthodox in his techniques, in his teaching techniques, I was thrust into a cave and the mask was ripped off, but you gain confidence very, very quickly and it was the best place to learn. I’m curious about the strip tease scene. Is there going to be more of that on the DVD and how many takes did it take? (laughter)LUC: We're going to put it in slow motion on the DVD. (laughter)JASON: Luc should answer that question. (laughter)LUC: I loved the scene.Were you nervous doing it or did you have fun with it?JASON: Natalya, do you want to answer that? (laughs) You made me do it.NATALYA: Well actually I had a lot of fun doing that. We had this mood together. It was kind of kinky, a little. It was really fun. (laughs)LUC: It was just freezing, freezing. (laughs) And she was very courageous. (laughs) NATALYA: We started shooting during the winter and I had this little dress. It was really cold but we had a lot of fun during the shooting.How was it shooting your first feature film?NATALYA: It was cold first of all and we had to shoot at night sometimes, but most of the time people helped a lot so that kind of helped me.ROBERT: Can I just say something about you in the shot? It was really fun to watch somebody who's never done a movie before, (laughs) because you were so innocent about so many things. The thing I remember most about shooting with you is you would go up to Olivier and say, “No, no, I want to do another take. No, I really think we should do another take,” and Olivier would say, “No, we have to move on,” “No but, no but, you see, I really want to do it.” It was so cute to watch. (laughter) NATALYA: I remember that.I love the conversations Jason and Natalya have in the car, particularly what was the inspiration for the one where she says, "She wants to make sex one last time?"LUC: The food thing is more him. (laughter) No, you always ask yourself this question, you know, if you still have like five minutes to live, what you will do, you know? Calling your mom is thirty seconds, then you still have four and a half minutes (laughter), and yeah, probably one of the most beautiful things in life is love. So, you know, if you have to end up in five minutes, you know, just grab someone, (laughter) Hey! We have five minutes! (laughter)She phrases it in a sort of childlike way.LUC: Yeah, the character is very Russian, very, oh whatever, you know, very instinctive and fatalistic.ROBERT: Luc and I divide up everything we write. He takes care of all the sex stuff and I do the food stuff.How did you get Robert Knepper, did you watch Prison Break, were you a fan of his work?LUC: Yeah, yeah I was a fan. I don't know how it's working on Prison Break, and how many days or things, but we met in Paris, and he's very, very well known and appreciated in Europe, and we just met. You know, the good thing with actors was, the same with Jason, there's something about the skin or the voice, but you know after like a minute if you feel good with an actor or not. It's chemical almost. And it takes thirty seconds with Robert, you know, after he says a few lines, and you smile and you say, okay, I'm going to work with this guy. (laughter)
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