[Movies] John Romita Jr and Mark Millar To Have Costumed Cameos In Kick-Ass 2 Posted by Joseph Lee on 03.20.2013
They fight each other...
In an interview with IFC, John Romita Jr revealed that he will have a cameo in Kick-Ass 2 with Mark Millar as costumed superheroes.
On his costume in the film: "Oh my god, it's out! I've been outed. My wife has all those photographs. In the first film, they wanted Mark and I to make an appearance, a cameo. We both felt uncomfortable with cameos, and we just thought we would stand around in the background and each of us was standing around as extras. They wanted to do the same thing with the second film. They wanted us to be in some scenes, and I said, "No, I'm not going to do cameos. Just throw me in somewhere." And Mark and I were supposed to, according to the person, were actually supposed to have some close-ups of us in the battle scenes. So even though we weren't going to say anything, we weren't going to utter any words, we were going to be in the big fight scene, so they had both of us costumed. It ended up Mark couldn't stick around for the close-ups because he had meetings with Fox, believe it or not. That day he had like five meetings with five different studio heads and was too busy, so our close-ups were gone. The producer, Tarquin Pack, and I had this wiseass relationship going. He loves to break chops. He asked them to put me in some ridiculous costume but it ended up being all in good fun. They had me in this red, skintight bodysuit and they threw everything you could imagine on top of it. Shoulder pads, knee pads; it looks like something from the future and the past all blown up together into one, and then they put makeup on my face and they put gel in my hair. It was hysterical."
On if he'll be easy to find: "Here's the problem: They put us in the fight scene and I was supposed to beat the snot out of Mark in the battle scene, and then they were going to do close-ups of us fighting, and Mark couldn't make it. So we're in the fight scene, but it's really difficult to see us. The director said when we do the third one, he said, "I'll get you all the close-up." The photos of me in costume are pretty funny. They're cringe-worthy, but since I have no pride, I don't mind people finding out about them."
On the costumes of the film in general: "That's an interesting point of conversation, because way back when I was just designing the characters, I was designing the costumes to try and look cool. And the words from Mark and from Matthew Vaughn at that time were, "Remember, these are supposed to be amateurs, make sure you take it in that light." The effort to make it that way consistently gets people to cringe at some of the costumes. It's supposed to be almost socially inept people to begin with, and they shouldn't have any good taste in costumes. They're amateurs at best, and I think that goes without saying, and everyone thinks that. No one is supposed to look glamorous. They're supposed to look stupid. Well Hit-Girl, she looks great, and so does Aaron in the Kick-ass costume. Every time I'd design a costume I'd have to be told, 'Remember, they're amateurs.'"
