David George-Cosh visited the set of the upcoming 'BlackBerry' movie and spoke with actor Glenn Howerton about portraying Jim Balsillie, the former co-chief executive officer of Research In Motion Inc.
OK, I wasn't really talking to Balsillie, the former co-chief executive officer of Research In Motion Inc. who made billions of dollars running the ex-smartphone company.
“There was no appeal for me for the BlackBerry. It was an email machine. That’s all it was," Howerton said in an interview with BNN Bloomberg."There was no browser or apps, initially. It was an email machine, a texting machine, and still to this day, I hate email. I want people to leave me alone." "I think that as such an extraordinarily successful company as RIM was when BlackBerry was at its height, it’s unusual to see such a precipitous rise and fall like that. I think that alone makes it fascinating," Howerton said.
For Howerton, the role wasn't about revisiting the story of how BlackBerry fell from its lofty perch as the world's most popular smartphone, but rather about the characters who toiled for years to make that happen. "With Jim [Balsillie], in this script, I think he’s being driven by the fear of being found out that he’s not as strong powerful and rich and important as the people that he aspires to be. I think he’s terrified of being found out and he spends all that time overcompensating for that fear. I think that’s what motivates him."
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