Eric Bana reflects on ‘Munich’ controversy

AP: Do you think “Munich” is an important film?

Bana: Well, I think it’s important because I feel like it’s one of those rare movies where, like I said before, it was kind of almost hijacked by large portions of the media and I think they turned the movie into something else... I know some people who didn’t want to see it just because they couldn’t be bothered having to formulate an argument... So I feel like the DVD release of the film is probably more important than it normally is for a movie because it really gets a chance to find its place and have people receive it, rather than sort of project onto it. I feel like I’ve never known a movie where people went to the cinema and wanted to project so much toward the screen before they saw a single image. I think the people who didn’t do that thoroughly enjoyed it and so I think the DVD release is really, really significant to this movie.

AP: On another stage... you used to be a standup comic?

Bana: I did it for 12 years before I started doing movies!

AP: Will you ever do it again?

Bana: Maybe, I do miss it a bit. I did television sketch comedy for seven years and I do miss that sometimes... I would never say never. Standup would be more difficult for me now because my freshest material now would be well over eight years old, so not much of it would fly... If a great comedy landed on my doorstep, I would find it hard to say no.

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