Giamatti bases ‘Shoot ‘Em Up’ villain on Karl Rove.

In his new movie Shoot ‘Em Up,” Oscar-nominee Paul Giamatti plays a “determined criminal” who leads “a gang of assassins” hunting after a newborn baby. According to Shoot ‘Em Up director Michael Davis, Giamatti based his character on a surprising source — Karl Rove:

I meet Paul Giamatti in [the New York neighborhood] SoHo on the hottest day of the summer…He says he’d like his character to be based on Karl Rove — a seemingly bookish guy who exercises power behind the scenes. I like it. His character turns out to be way more flamboyant than Rove … but I like how our free-flowing conversation started making the character better than what is on the page.

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