With Final Inquiry about to make its debut on DVD on February 19, we took a call from Dolph to talk about playing one of the most unique characters of his career, working with Max Von Sydow and F. Murray Abraham, whether he's seen the latest Rambo movie, and if we'll ever see him do a movie with Stallone and Jean Claude Van Damme.

THE DEADBOLT: This was a different role for you. What appealed to you most about Final Inquiry and your character, Brixos?

DOLPH LUNDGREN: I thought it was an interesting story about a Roman tribune sent to Jerusalem to investigate the death of Jesus a few years after the crucifixion, and I play the sidekick to the tribune. My role is a bit more offbeat and colorful, he’s a guy with long hair and a beard, he doesn’t talk much, and just kind of observes things. But he becomes friends with his master and then he ends up giving his own life to protect his master, which was sort of Christ-like when he died, but it was a good arc to the character and an interesting, different role. That’s the reason I did it.

THE DEADBOLT: Although you didn't have many scenes with them, did you get a chance to spend time Max von Sydow and F. Murray Abraham?

LUNDGREN: Yeah, we did actually. I spoke to both of them. You know, I met Max von Sydow before and he’s a very nice man, obviously a big hero in Sweden, and it was great to meet him again. His son is in the picture, too. He plays the informer who gets killed by Barabbas. F. Murray Abraham was very sweet and very friendly, and I thought it would be great to be in a film with either of those guys. Murray had some back problems and my trainer was there to kind of helped him out a bit and I was happy for that, so it was great.

THE DEADBOLT: So, what were the camels like to work with?

LUNDGREN: Oh, they were terrible. They’re very different from horses. They don’t want to do what you tell them, they go backwards when you tell them to go forward, and vise versa. Also, they’re very high. When you’re up there, you’re really up there, and you’re much higher than a horse. So going full-speed down a hill is - if you fall off, man, you’re in trouble. That was interesting, it definitely gives you perspective on action movies. [laughs]

THE DEADBOLT: There's a moment in the film where your character says that asking questions surrounding death is pointless, because in the end we all find out for ourselves. Do you feel the same way?

LUNDGREN: I do, as a matter of fact, to some extent. I don’t go on thinking about it that much. But as you get older and have two kids, you start thinking that one day, sooner or later, they’re going to be there without you and [you ask], "Where am I going to be? What’s going to happen to me? What happens at that moment?" Depending on how it happens, obviously, we can die at any second from anything, really. But if it does come to the fact that you’re looking someone in the eye and you’re about to pass on to another world, what is it going to be like? It’s the monumental question in everyone’s life and I think religion came in to try to answer some of those questions early on. About 2000 years-ago, even though they were wearing sandals and whatnot, they were still thinking about the same things. I think that’s what is interesting about history and that’s what was cool about exploring the birth of a new religion.

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