When it came to playing a US Marine staff sergeant in “Battle: Los Angeles,” Aaron Eckhart really embraced the Corps’ gung ho tradition.
“I broke my arm on this movie doing a stunt,” Eckhart tells PopcornBiz. “I was doing a stunt and I jumped off a seven foot thing and landed and broke my arm and kept on going. I did the whole last half of the movie with a broken arm, which I thought was fun!”
For Eckhart, making the alien invasion film – shot in hyper-realistic documentary style – was the ultimate grownup version of playground war games. “I was like a kid in a candy store,” he says. “There were days when we shot 20,000 rounds in a day. I remember going through this, and we shot this movie in Louisiana and I remember being up at 3 a.m. in Shreveport on top of a humvee with a .50 cal, going through the streets. Now, to you that might not seem like fun, but to me it was blast.”