ComingSoon.net talked to James Marsden about playing David Sumner in Rod Lurie’s Straw Dogs, opening in theaters on Friday, September 16. You can watch the interview using the player below!
In the thriller, David and Amy Sumner (Marsden and Kate Bosworth), a Hollywood screenwriter and his actress wife, return to her small hometown in the deep South to prepare the family home for sale after her father’s death. Once there, tensions build in their marriage and old conflicts re-emerge with the locals, including Amy’s ex-boyfriend Charlie (Alexander Skarsgård), leading to a violent confrontation.