Jonathan Mostow, can you talk about why Edward Furlong was not in the movie?
Mostow: It’s not so much that Eddie Furlong was, like, rejected, because he wasn’t. I absolutely considered the idea of using Eddie. But it goes back to the whole reason I did this movie in the first place, which is, I though it was interesting that you had a unique situation where you had a character that everybody knows that’s now suddenly 12 years older. And so this character’s psychologically in a very, very different place in his life. He’s spent a decade with sort of the ultimate existential dilemma. Am I the leader of the world? So when I started this movie I just said in every area I want to start from scratch and make sure that I’m building up and making my choices for the right reasons. I don’t want to do anything just because it was in the last movie. In the case of this character, I knew I needed a top-of-the-line actor, and I also needed somebody who had a soulfulness about them, so I could believe that they were really carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders.
