Grimsby brothers Mark 's hard addressing the elephant in the room

Mark Strong has been acting since the mid-1980s, the authority figures often as expressed deep in dramas such as Dark Zero Thirty - in which there can be recognized him by his wig Movie - imitation game, Syriana , the mole, and the action comedy last year, Kingsman: the secret Service, where Q played the straight-laced character named Merlin.

In The Brothers Grimsby, plays a spy for MI6 and the government hired murderer who met his brother lost a lot of time vulgar, played by Borat creator Sacha Baron Cohen ago.

In his enthusiastic opinion of the film, EW Darren Franich called the film "an-I bottom-up spy comedy ... the best work of Cohen in a decade," and also wrote: "just over 80 minutes, Grimsby fits in a decadent trip to London and scrubby Grimsby, Africa and South America. It has one of the nastiest individual sequences in film history. "

That's a reference to a scene in which Cohen Strong and seek refuge inside a female elephant. (Cohen published part of the scene on his Facebook page, which you can see below.) It may seem paradoxical that Strong, possibly experienced the greatest success of his career very recently with her two-year effort stage in Arthur Miller's a view from the bridge, you are receiving its greater exposure to a farce rise spy tone. But we started our recent conversations talking not about the differences between intellectual drama and comedy below the belt, but the similarities.

Entertainment Weekly: Only recently finished this race as Eddie Carbone, the tragic hero of Panorama from the bridge, in a surprising, challenging stage production of Arthur Miller play. I was filming The Brothers Grimsby as they appear in the game?

Mark Strong: Funny enough, I ran my hand. I finished the race in London Young Vic Panorama from the bridge and the next day I started filming in Grimsby. And then, when we run in London's West End, the reshoots approached. And now literally just I finished the game last weekend in New York and here is the premiere Grimsby.

Is there any way you can compare these two projects?

Well, it seems crazy that the game very seriously and Arthur Miller scholar has run hand in hand with this, anarchic film crazy. But I think there is something, some kind of connection between Miller and Sacha. It is that both are scratching away at the veneer of civilization. Miller is interested in the idea that beneath the surface, everything that is not quite right. Sacha is the same in his comedy. distance scratches to the sensitivities of people. To see how far you can take things to push your buttons.

Are you attracted to that?

Yes. I mean, I'm fascinated by the stories Sacha told me. He said there were plenty of times when security or bodyguard would stand around. And then something dangerous would happen and would turn around to see her security literally running out the door. I think at that rodeo, for example, Borat, which was in danger of death. And the same when he ran naked through the group of people at the end of that movie. I think jumped into a van and were beating the sides of the truck. Yes, he does not put in very dangerous situations.

Actually, it has never done this sort of bawdy comedy. Who thought his co-star opposite him?

Well, first, they were looking for someone who credibly could be your brother. Sacha is a tall, that is dark. And that kind of made of such invoice. And I think someone was watching television and hear my voice, actually. And [Grimsby producer] Erik Felner that I know, then gave me a ring and asked if he would be interested. And then I came into the improvisation with Sacha. And it all happened very fast. They sent me three scenes. But only he threw improvised. They shot something in a handheld camera in the room, quickly edited together and decided it was the boy.

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