The man who doesn't take any bull

The Way Of The Gun is about two long-time partners who are career criminals looking for a quick and non-violent payoff. They make the mistake of abducting a pregnant young woman, played by Juliette Lewis. She's having a child for a wealthy couple - one of those couples where the wife doesn't want to get stretch marks so they get a surrogate mother.

But they picked on the wrong girl as the father of the child-to-be is an international money-launderer and his bagman is James Caan, who's taking no truck from them. His hired guns are played by Geoffrey Lewis, who's Juliette's father, Taye Diggs and Nicky Katt.

It's written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie who wrote The Usual Suspects. Ryan Phillippe and I play the abductors - two bad guys who still have a code. There was supposed to be a bit of a Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid thing about us but they were actually more like Batman and Robin. Then there was this Sam Peckinpah thing that keeps coming up and the Sixties movie thing with James Caan coming into it.

Chris is very talented as a writer, one of the best. We've known each other for some while. He wrote the script straight after The Usual Suspects so we were chewing it over for while.

The Way Of The Gun was a very physical film, all that running around which maybe I'm getting a bit old for. I was really tired after that - so doing a small part in Snatch, as Frankie Four Fingers, where I was killed off good 'n' early, was good news.