Playing the husband of Reese Witherspoon, made a cuckold by Robert Pattinson in Water for Elephants, Waltz will also don the red cape of Cardinal Richelieu for Paul W. S. Anderson’s The Three (D) Musketeers and the third film for 2011 sees the man playing another kind of villain for Michel Gondry for The Green Hornet.
In the video below Waltz talks about his character, Chudnofsky, and we’ve seen one of these character focused featurettes recently with Cameron Diaz’s character and there’s plenty to catch up on if this is your first time hearing about the film.
Click below to hear words and see pictures,
And if you want a synopsis, pin back those eyelids now,
Britt Reid (Seth Rogen), son and heir to Los Angeles’ largest newspaper fortune, is a rich, spoiled playboy who has been happy to maintain a direction-less existence. When his father James Reid (Tom Wilkinson) dies, Britt meets an impressive and resourceful company employee, Kato (Jay Chou). They realize that they have the resources to do something worthwhile with their lives and finally step out of James Reid’s shadow. Kato builds the ultimate weapon, The Black Beauty, an indestructible car with every weapon imaginable and Britt decides that in order to be heroes, they will pose as villains. With the help of Britt’s new secretary, Lenore Case (Cameron Diaz), they learn that the chief criminal in the city is named Benjamin Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz). He has united all the gangs under his power, and he quickly sees that the Green Hornet is a direct threat to the prosperous criminal underworld he controls.
