The Expendables 3 Exclusive Interview With Antonio Banderas & Victor Ortiz

[MUSIC PLAYING] Hello, gentlemen. Thank you for having me here. And I want to know about those stunts, because that's an action-packed film. And you've done a lot of action work before. We've seen you in-- I just do action in real life. You do action in real life, boxing, but you've also done a little Dancing with the Stars there, right? Oh yeah, that action.

So what was more challenging for you? Hands down, Dancing with the Stars. Dancing is hard, period. I mean, you know, your movie. I remember the movies, yeah. Oh man, it's no joke. I mean, I had a great time, but would I ever do it again? Probably not. It's too hard. It's too frustrating. What percentage of the stunts did you guys take on yourselves?

Everything that the insurance companies allowed us to do, go inside, and something that is not stupid. You just gotta fall out of a balcony and just lay flat on top of a truck. Why an actor is gonna do that? You know, with the possibility they're gonna break a leg and you're gonna continue the movie and 150 people have to go home and just wait there.

No, those things in which actually you measure the risk and you say, "Okay, I trust the professionals around me and I'm going to do it so they don't have to modify camera positions or anything like that." So it's your face, so you can go full and, yeah, zoom a little bit of a risk. But in general, nothing may happen, though we have some accidents in this movie, you know.

The brakes of a truck suddenly can provoke a tragedy, and that's what happened, actually, with Jason. Jason went straight into the Black Sea, with a truck hitting two guys that were on the cameras at the time. And he lived an experience that was very close to death. That's the truth. So accidents happen, but you assume it. It's part of your job when you do a movie like this.

Me just being green, me, like, you know, he's been there. I've never done any of this, but me being a green actor, actor, meaning not too experienced, I was like, "Yeah, let's do this. Let's do it." And I was so excited, but then it got to the point to where they're like, "Victor, you're kind of nuts, man. You can't do that." "Why not?" They're like, "Because, dude, you break your leg.

Your insurance..." No. I'm like, "I'm not gonna break anything. I swear. I'm made of steel." Yeah, it didn't work. It never worked. I, like many, are long-time fans of yours and your vast, you know, spread of work that you've done, but your music as well, your musical styling. So, can we expect anything like that coming from you soon, whether discography or on...

No discography, no. You know, I play piano, I play guitar, but everything that I have done musically Mostly it's related to my profession as an actor. I did Broadway. So if I do things that are musical in the future it's going to be in that territory. The rest of the things are for me - and I am composing very weird pieces that are not hip at all. I am composing things for bands, I am composing things for orchestras, and it's actually the feeling is more a classic feeling.

I may probably in the future do soundtracks for movies, for my own movies. That's something that I may approach, but not in other branches of music. Well, we do look forward to seeing that. How about from you, Victor? At the end of the movie I saw that scene where you guys got up there. I just stick to karaoke, you know. I think my career stays at karaoke.