Did you read the Hellblazer storyline “Dangerous Habits,” on which the filming script is loosely based?
[Thumbing through the book] I’ve read sections, but I looked more towards the script that I had. Most of what I’ve gotten has come from having a feeling of who Constantine is inside. If you look at some of the panels you can see how he’s expressing himself and how he moves. [Cocks his head to the side as he lights up a cigarette, in unconsciously Contantinian fasion] I used the story in the script to work from there. Aside from Constantine, what’s your favorite comic movie? [Takes a long, thoughtful pull off his cigarette] I don’t think I have one. I remember as a kid liking the first “Superman,” and then the Tim Burton Batman movies, there was something to them, but I didn’t find them satisfying in terms of who I thought Batman was. I thought Val Kilmer was a decent Batman, very dark and twisted. For such an amiable, good-natured person, Reeves definitely entertains a penchant for the dark and twisted when it comes to his taste in roles. From his parts in Sam Raimi’s horror film “The
