Set in New Orleans, Contraband is Mark Whalberg’s new thriller about smuggling on container ships. He plays a blue-collar family man who’s sworn off his former life of crime, until his brother-in-law botches a drug deal and needs his help in order to repay the debt. Whalberg agrees to do one last job, running contraband from Panama on a container ship. Kate Beckinsale plays Whalberg’s wife, Ben Foster his best friend and business partner, and Giovanni Ribisi plays a New Orleans drug runner who is barely recognizable and eerily convincing.
During our one-on-one interview, we talk about how he created the accent, the prison documentaries he watched to get into the role, as well a bit about the upcoming Seth McFarlane movie Ted. Hit the jump for the full interview.
Question: You were amazing in this, completely unrecognizable.
Giovanni Ribisi: Well I had a mammal on my face. A big furry goatee.
I was going to ask… for some reason I thought you grew that out…
Ribisi: No I grew it out… That’s me. I don’t know if I could do a movie with like fake hair… I did that once and it was awful because you can’t move your mouth. Horrible.
Can you talk about your accent, and the origin of that? It’s not just one thing or another.
Ribisi: Yeah, the accent was… Well, New Orleans there’s so many different regions and so many different accents. I think the third ward or the ninth, they talk like they’re ...
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