SUBMITTED BY Stephanie

May 2, 2004 — Eric Bana gives a brief talk on his role in the upcoming film, Troy, as well as talks about the CGI (or lack there of) used in Troy and the script of the film.

Even though he was the star of "The Hulk," Australian actor Eric Bana didn't have any action scenes; they were all done by a green-skinned, computer-generated alter ego.

Not the case with "Troy," Wolfgang Petersen's massive Trojan War epic. Bana plays Hector, the besieged city's greatest warrior, who leads assaults against the invading Greeks and meets the enemy's most formidable fighter, Achilles (played by Brad Pitt), in one of the most legendary grudge matches of all time.

"It was really, pleasantly intense," Bana says. "I had a very, very long preparation period for the film physically, and they developed a unique fighting style that they wanted Brad and I to have that was different to each other.

"What's really cool about it is that there are no special effects," says the actor, who notes that CG was mainly reserved for wide-canvas battle shots and the 1,000-ship Greek fleet. "It's just two guys who have trained for a really long period of time trying to do everything themselves. That makes it a very human fight at the same time, which is something that Brad and I are very proud of."

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