Billy Burke is most widely known for his role in the "Twilight" series of movies. As Charlie Swan, he plays the loving father of Kristen Stewart's character, Bella. He's a police officer who doesn't seem to notice the vampires and werewolves rampaging through his Pacific Northwest community.
Burke can't say much about the series' next two movies to come - parts one and two of "Breaking Dawn" - but he does make a promise: Charlie Swan isn't going to continue looking as dense as his police-issue mustache makes him appear.
"After all of these years of him being the most inept cop in the world, after being oblivious to what's going on, he finally gets clued in and realizes that he's not living in the world that he thought he was living in," Burke said with a chuckle during a phone interview this week.
Those are the movies he is asked about most - there's a reason he has more than 639,000 followers on Twitter ("some of the kindest, most genuine people you will ever come across," he said of "Twilight's" rabid fan base) - but his newest film, "Drive Angry," opens Friday at Tulsa-area theaters.
Burke has played all sorts of characters in the 18 years since he arrived in Los Angeles to pursue a music career with a side gig of acting. That has played out in reverse. (Last year he released his bluesy - think Tom Waits - album "Removed," and it can be found on iTunes, filled with songs he wrote over several years.) Making movies, he said, is "a good way to make a living."
Burke has become one of the busiest actors in Hollywood, known for popping up in not only multiple movies each year (next month's "Red Riding Hood" and those five "Twilight" movies), but also multiple TV shows ("24," "Rizzoli and Isles").
He's the bad guy this time, so fans will have to imagine the kind-hearted cop playing an over-the-top villain in the Nicolas Cage action flick, shot in 3-D and also starring Amber Heard and William Fichtner.
Burke plays a cult leader aiming to sacrifice a baby as an offering to a dark lord who would then create hell on Earth. Cage's character escapes from hell to seek justice for his murdered daughter and the now-kidnapped grandchild.
The film looks like 1970s drive-in fare, full of fast cars and snarling, violent bad old boys. That description fits "Drive Angry," Burke said, "but it's that times about 100. It's that and you take that flavor and all of those components and ramp them up and go a little bit further, past the boundaries at which they would have gone in the day, and you have our movie."
It's the kind of movie, he said, that made him want to make movies in the first place, like "Smokey and the Bandit."
"You can still go back and look at those movies and recognize that Burt Reynolds, and all of those cats, were just having way too much fun," Burke said.
Burke said he might miss Sunday's Academy Awards because of a scheduled flight. That would leave his 639,000 Twitter followers ("Does that number qualify as obnoxious?" he asked) to ponder only last year's tweets: "S---. Oscar night. Hope I don't get buzzed and start spewing a bunch of bitter, spite-ridden comments all over this page. Stay tuned. ..." followed shortly by, "Well, the getting buzzed part happened. ..."
"As I may be on a plane, there will be no danger of my making buzzed tweets about the show," he said, to the dismay of Twihards and fans everywhere of his movies, music and pithy commentar
tulsaworld via @Kstewangel
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