![]() ![]() In “13 Sins,” a remake of a 2006 Thai thriller “13: Game of Death,” Webber plays Elliot Brindle, a nice guy who’s fired from his job at the worst possible time of his life. And I was a big fan of Daniel as a director so this one had all the right elements for me to go out and fight for it.” “I knew with all of the crazy situations I had to go through that it would be a fun movie to make. ![]() “To be in every single frame of the movie, and to take an action thriller on my back, was so exciting,” says Webber, 33. Now playing in Philadelphia and available on VOD, the latest thriller from “Last Exorcist” director Daniel Stamm gives Webber his first starring role in a studio movie since 2000’s “Snow Day.” Not surprisingly, the always-busy Webber will pop up in four independent features in 2014, including “Laggies,” a comedy co-starring Keira Knightley “Uncanny,” a sci-fi film about the world’s first perfect artificial intelligence “Jessabelle,” a supernatural thriller and “Happy Christmas,” a dramedy co-starring Anna Kendrick and “Girls” star Lena Dunham.įirst up, Webber toplines “13 Sins,” an action movie unlike anything he’s done before. Webber hasn’t portrayed the Man of Steel just yet, but since making his film debut in Eugene Martin’s “Edge City” in 1992, he’s worked steadily in movies, carving out a reputation as a respected indie actor. “I thought, ‘I want to do this so I’ll be rich and famous and people will like me and I won’t be judged for being poor.’ ” “It was, like, ‘Oh my God! Superman!’ At first I wanted to be Superman but then I found out that Superman was played by an actor and that was even more exciting. “I didn’t get to see a lot of movies, so seeing `Superman’ was pure escapism for me,” he says. Watching the movie starring Christopher Reeve was such an overwhelmingly magical experience for the youngster, who was then homeless, that he began trying to figure out a way to make it last a little longer. He was 10 years old and discovering “Superman” for the first time. Philadelphia’s Mark Webber will never forget the moment he decided to become an actor. ![]()
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