MANILA, Philippines - Opening on Friday, June 4, is director Robert Luketic’s action-comedy Killers starring Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl.
Katherine plays Jen, a computer tech vacationing with her parents in Europe when she meets the mysterious Spencer (Ashton). As romance ensues, Jen gets caught up in the dangerous world of Spencer who is, naturally, a super assassin. The film also stars Tom Selleck, Catherine O’Hara, Rob Riggle and Martin Mull.
The two stars talk about why they wanted to do the movie, whether people should keep secrets in real life, what Ashton did as producer, the stunts and others. If you’re a fan of Ashton and Katherine, you’ll enjoy learning what they have to say.
What was the appeal for each of you to do this film?
Ashton: My character in the film is a guy who starts out in this extraordinary place with this extraordinary profession. When he meets the right person, he decides that he just wants a normal life, and it’s a life that he doesn’t necessarily get to have. For me, I found that I was connected to that. Also, when I read the script, I had been looking for a movie like this, that was a two-hander and that was a fun, entertaining action-comedy.
Katherine: I’ve obviously been doing a few romantic comedies, and what I loved about this particular romantic comedy was that it had the added element of action, so it was a slightly different take on the formula. Although I love the formula and I will continue, hopefully until I’m too old to do them, to do romantic comedies, this just had an energy and this thing that made it unique. I loved being the broad character to Ashton’s straight guy.
Everybody in this movie has secrets. Do you think it’s a good idea to sometimes keep secrets in a relationship, or should you never do that?
Ashton: I firmly believe it’s a good idea to keep secrets. I think it depends on who the secret is benefitting. If, at the end of the day, you’re the person that’s benefitting from the secret, or you’re hiding something, and you’re the one who has something at stake, then you should probably tell it. If the secret is benefitting the other person, maybe you should keep it.
Katherine: That’s probably far more profound than anything I could say. Unfortunately, I have a very difficult time keeping secrets, which is evident in any interview with me you ever read. So, I don’t really have any, and I don’t think my husband does. I think that it’s okay.
How do you know that you’ve met the right person?
Katheriine: It starts with a tingle in your toes.
Ashton: I don’t know. I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person.
Ashton, what would people be surprised to know about you?
I cease to shock myself anymore. People are most shocked and most in disbelief that I go to the office every day. I have a job. When I’m not acting on a movie, I go to work, first thing in the morning. I’m at work at 8 o’clock in the morning, and I get home from work at 7 o’clock at night. I treat my job like a job, and I work at it. I think people would probably be most surprised, if I ever calculated up the number of hours I work on an average week and published that. If it was ever documented, I think people would be shocked to find out.