On the set of Faster

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Directed by George Tillman, who also directed Soul Food, Notorious and Men of Honor - a diverse filmography, for sure - Faster features a slick and deadly assassin otherwise known as Killer. It's a familiar character portrayed by an unfamiliar face - up-and-coming English actor Oliver Jackson-Cohen. The young, twenty-three year old thespian talked candidly about the backstory that he and Tillman created for the character.

"George asked me where he was from and we worked backwards and forwards with quite a lot of ideas. Fundamentally, all of his problems stem from when he was a child," laughed Jackson-Cohen. "I'm hired to come in and I suddenly find myself in this chaos, but all three of us - me, Dwayne, Billy Bob - we've all got our own demons and the whole situation makes us deal with them. There's nothing sane or normal about this man... The Killer sold a software company and made a huge amount of money. He's bi-polar; he's never been very stable. And there's this kind of thrill, this need to find something that's going to excite him, and he finds it in this."

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