Hugo Weaving doesn’t mind wearing a mask

Weaving also was attracted to the movie since he thought it densely packed with ideas, and topical ones at that. Although the source material — a graphic novel — was written in response to Thatcherite Britain in the ’80s, he notes, it’s been rewritten and springs very much from today’s world.

Critics already have addressed the film’s political themes, especially since V could be seen as T — for terrorist.

The word terrorist is “used to such an extent actually that it’s almost become meaningless, I think. It’s an unhelpful label a lot of the time,” Weaving says.

As he observes, it depends on who you are, what side you’re on, what you believe — as the old saying goes, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.

“I certainly don’t advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling everything as a terrorist act is helpful either,” Weaving says. “I think we need to look beyond those labels and try to understand when people do certain things what is it that brings them to perpetrate that stuff.”

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