Sir Ben Kingsley went to great lengths to master spinning while filming for his Oscar winning role in Gandhi, and now rues that fact that hes forgotten the skill.
Washington, June 25 : Sir Ben Kingsley went to great lengths to master spinning while filming for his Oscar winning role in 'Gandhi', and now rues that fact that he's forgotten the skill.
The actor reveals that he had spent long hours learning how to spin, and that he was actually doing so in all those spinning scenes in the movie.
"I learn these skills very thoroughly for movies. I actually learned to spin as Gandhi and that was really me spinning in the film," Contactmusic quoted him, as saying.
And though he thinks it's a bit odd how these skills disappear, he thinks that it's the brain's way of dealing with information that it doesn't use.
"Then, as soon as you're out of that character, the skill has no relevance to your life and it disappears. It's odd but it just disappears. I think it's the brain taking care of itself and not holding too much information it won't use," he said.
The most recent skill that the actor has picked up has been shooting. He decided to take to the firing ring after signing on to play a hit man in his latest movie 'You Kill Me'.
"I went to the firing range and practiced. I was with a coach who loved weapons so it was interesting to be with that kind of a man who would describe the number of working parts in the guns. He loved them. I got that information from him and at the firing range I was very successful. I was very good actually. I hit a target many times," he says.
ANI