Actor Mark Strong (Kick-Ass), recently sat down for an interview and spoke about playing the villain Sinestro in director Martin Campbell‘s upcoming Green Lantern film, starring Ryan Reynolds, which is currently shooting in New Orleans. Strong revealed a few costume and plot details about his character Sinestro and proved he knows the material.

Strong said,

“For anybody who’s familiar with the Green Lantern and the origin story, the film closely follows the early comics. Sinestro starts out as Hal Jordan’s mentor, slightly suspicious and not sure of him because obviously Hal is the first human being who’s made into a Green Lantern. He’s certainly very strict and certainly unsure of the wisdom of Hal becoming a Green Lantern, He is a military guy but isn’t immediately bad. It’s the kind of person he is that lends himself to becoming bad over the course of the comics being written, but initially he’s quite a heroic figure.”

Strong spoke about hit outfit and other character traits,

“That widow’s peak and thin mustache was for some reason originally based on David Niven, and Hal Jordan was based on Errol Flynn,” said Strong, who recently got fitted for special Sinestro contact lenses”.

[Source] USAWeekend