For me playing that character was just like [slits throat]. Am I allowed to say all of these things? I didn't want to do the movie. I didn't want to play this character.
It was completely against everything I felt in my being. At one point it says Paris crawls along the floor having been beaten by somebody and holds his brother's leg. I was like, 'I'm not going to be able to do this.'
One of my agents at the time said, 'But that's the moment that will make it!' And I completely fell for that line of an agent.
The scene he's referring to is when Paris fights Menelaus (Gleeson) for Helen of Troy's (Kruger) hand. Paris is badly beaten and wounded, so he crawls back to his brother Hector (Bana), who kills Menelaus. This act kicks off the Trojan War.
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