doing while playing rasputin was recollecting his youth i knew he would bring a level of believability to all the craziness and ralph we needed someone who was in his 50s and as good as colin firth and that is a very short listthe action scenes in kingsman are the real highlight how do you outdo the level of crazy with each filmthe good news is i dont think it is crazy so then it is not hard to outdo yourself i look at each action sequence as telling a story i just shot one for the new film and i thought have i gone too far this time but im always trying to tell a story with it and i try to make sure it is not the same or interchangeable if you look at some of these action movies and take the third act of all these big movies and intercut them you wouldnt know that youve intercut four different films together so for rasputin we brought in ballet cossack dancing the old russian dance that used to be fighting that got banned and turned into dancing then i studied all the errol flynn sword fighting so we copied that but just shot it differently i think people enjoy these sequences because we are just trying to tell a story late brad allen who was my partner listened to all my ideas in the other movies people said just do action no one cares about the story but i was on them every daythis film is a sort of a naughty edgy history lesson but the way you have handled death here is very different and emotional was this a conscious effort keeping in mind the current scenariothe movie was set in world war i and its about the birth of kingsman in the first film colin firth talks about how and why kingsman was founded but it had to be real and i had to make that i am making the strongest foundation possible for even those who are not kingsman fans to watch it and be surprised this is ground zero this is the starting point so it had to hit people in a way that they want more but they will not forget where it all began the story has a rather bold take on politics and duty to ones country what message do you hope people take away from this filmfirst of all be careful about who you want as your leader because look what happens if you have the wrong leaders the other is reputation is who people think you are and character is who you are and i think in the world we now live in with social media no one is understanding what the truth is anymore about people and who they are and what they are there is so much noise and images and fakeness and no depth so i think it is important for kids to find out