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| INTERVIEW MAGAZINE - March 2004 |
| WILL KEMP BY ANGELA MATUSIK PHOTOS BY DIEGO MERINO WHEN HE DANCED HE DARED TO TAKE UNEXPECTED TURNS AND GREAT LEAPS. BETS ARE HE'LL DO THIS AGAIN IN HIS NEXT LIFE AS AN ACTOR. Every once in a while advertisements can be downright hypnotic - inflicting sudden cravings, popularizing insipid jingles, or in the case of last year's Gap campaign featuring a disheveled Brit named Will Kemp, setting hearts on fire. "Bizarrely enough, it was the easiest job I ever had," says Kemp of the spots that transformed this experimental dancer (his star turn was in Matthew Bourne's buzzed-about almost-all-male Swan Lake) into an office-cubicle pinup. Debuting in the upcoming Mindhunters, the 26-year-old is taking a leap - really, more like a grand jete, as Renny Harlin directs and Val Kilmer and Christian Slater co-star - back into the spotlight. Like Kemp himself, the film is a real genre bender ("It's an action and psychological thriller" with a pinch of serial-killer gore), though it's not exactly his cup of tea. "I hate scary movies," he says. "As a child, I had to be carried out of the theater from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)." His next film, May's action pic Van Helsing, would have elicited a similar response from the young Kemp. It stars Hugh Jackman as the legendary monster hunter battling long-time foes, including Kemp's exceptionally nimble wolf man. "It's very operatic," he explains. "Total entertainment." |