Rupert Sanders

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.