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Interesting interview with Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje about The Rise of COBRA

The National Ledger spent some time speaking with Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje about his role as Heavy Duty in the upcoming G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA film, mostly focusing on the training and conditioning required for the action-packed movie.

“The actor known as Mr. Eko to fans of “Lost” (see photo right) and as Wally as a schoolboy back home in London — tells us that in his role of ordinance expert Heavy Duty, at one point he shoots a 120-pound cannon “that’s normally strapped to a helicopter. They don’t call him Heavy Duty for nothing. Everything on that film was heavy duty, man.” He also found himself “suspended on hinges and strings from a spacecraft, firing 500-600 rounds per second. And for all that pay, you have to look good, not sweat, say the line on cue and not fire over the words. You have to keep a cool head.”

There’s some other interesting tidbits as well, click here to check them out.

Great new images of Heavy Duty in Reactive Armor action figure

Cmderinchief (from JBL and the Coil Club, naturally) comes through again, this time with a bevy of great pictures of the upcoming Heavy Duty action figure in the familiar “Reactive Armor” battlesuit.  See his original thread on JoeBattleLines here, or check out the nearly two dozen images shown below.

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Every picture I see of this “Reactive Armor” stuff makes me really dig it even more…it’s such an awesome throwback to Sigma 6 (which of course will piss a lot of fans off…it just makes me smile) and I’m amazed at the level of detail.  Good stuff.  Now cmderinchief needs to get off his ass and take a nice group shot with what he’s got so far.  :shifty: