'Killer Elite' Star Clive Owen: It's All About The Mustache!

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[url="http://moviesblog.mtv.com/tag/clive-owen"]Clive Owen[/url] is convinced his character in [url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/481715/moviemain.jhtml"]"Killer Elite"[/url] isn't the bad guy in this spy-thriller-meets-popcorn-action-flick production. [url="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1670919/jason-statham-killer-elite.jhtml"]Jason Statham's hero[/url], as he gets his face bloodily pounded in by Owen's menacing presence, might argue otherwise, but we're certainly not going to argue with either of these gentleman.

"Whenever I play a part in a film, I never think he is the bad guy," Owen told MTV News. "You have to always find a reason and understand why he's doing what he's doing."

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Fair enough. And sure, Owen (Oscar nominee that he is) did his big-screen due diligence, taking what might have been a villain on the page and transforming him into, at the very least, a bad guy certain of his noble intentions. But the actor also admitted, perhaps with less than a shred of truth, that his conception of Spike (the leader of a team of hit men targeting Statham and other ex-special ops agents), began and ended with facial hair.

"Listen, some people do a lot of research — they spend a lot of time," Owen laughed. "I just pinned everything on that mustache. I'll stand by it. If it fails, I go down."

His lip fuzz got the heave-ho as soon as the production wrapped, and Owen certainly wasn't missing the 'stache as he chatted with MTV News at the Toronto International Film Festival recently. He was, however, quite proud of "Killer Elite," which hits theaters on Friday (September 23). Press play on the video to hear him wax (on and off) poetically about his facial hair and how the flick is a very cool genre mashup.

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