What did Russell Crow think about this film? "I was extremely turned off when I read the script. I actually got a little physically ill, and I said to my agent, 'I definitely don't feel like I would engage in this at all, But "it just started to become something that I felt compelled to do, to flip the intellectual process aside and understand the importance of this subject. Where is this rage in society coming from? What do we do to unpack what we've built with that?"
The difficulty in a character like this is his singular purpose. There's no way you can justify his actions. You can't use humanity to soften who he is because that would be cheap. This is a real thing. We've seen episode after episode of people taking these types of actions. Obviously, I'm alluding to mass shooting incidents, but in this instance, the weapon is not an AR-15; it's a car. But it's the same type of thought process where for his reasons, this man has stepped into a fight that completely lacks humanity and empathy, and he is just going to destroy until he is destroyed.