HE ( RICK FLAG) IS THE ONE WHO KEEPS THE BOAT STEADY SO THE OTHER CHARACTERS CAN GO WILD...

of the backbone of the whole thing. In comedy you need a straight man, and that’s sort of how I saw my role in this. I would have liked to have found more opportunities to play the comic openings, but that just wasn’t in the cards for this character.

“He’s the straight guy,” the actor said. “He’s the one who keeps the boat steady. And then all these other characters can go wild, and they do. So I carried my story line through it, and then they do all the flash around that. Together it makes for a pretty damn good movie.”

There was plenty more to talk about with Kinnaman. He enjoyed a nifty run on House of Cards in Season 4, playing the recurring role of Governor Will, an antagonist to President Underwood ( Kevin Spacey). The actor soon will return to Baltimore to shoot several episodes for the upcoming fifth season.

“After Suicide Squad, House of Cards felt like I went to have dinner at my parents’ house,” Kinnaman said. “That’s what it felt like. The tone of House of Cards as a show is very much the tone of the set. It’s sombre. It’s adult. So it took a couple of days to adjust into it, but, I had a good time on that as well.”

Also on the way is the film Edge of Winter, a psychological thriller due out on Aug 12 in the US. Kinnaman co- stars in the film with rising star Tom Holland, Hollywood’s new Spider- Man.

“I play a father who means well and loves his kids very much, but has a lot of emotional problems and puts himself in a position where he actually becomes a danger to their safety, even though he’s trying to save them,” Kinnaman said. “I’m excited for people to see that one, just because it’s so different from anything else I’ve done.”

— New York Times Syndicate