Pick Pick Pick

A little gift showed up this week in the form of an unexpected peek of a tall Texan, courtesy of that special friend who has given us so many wonderful treats before and wanted to share some pictures with OMG. (Thank you Thank you more gold stars for you!)



While it looked like there was a long stretch between filming the The Informers and before doing OTH, and his newer film projects. Don't be so sure. Seems Mr. Nichols did a cameo in a movie that is will be coming out on DVD this Tuesday (6/15).

Much has been said about how people who work with Austin want to work with him again, this project supports that. After making The Informers with director Gregor Jordan' he did a cameo in Jordan's newest movie "Unthinkable", starring Michael Sheen, Samuel Jackson and Carrie Ann Moss, that came out last November in the US.

Unthinkable is "a psychological thriller centered around a black-ops interrogator and an FBI agent who press a suspect terrorist into divulging the location of three nuclear weapons sets to detonate in the U.S.

"Special Agent Helen Brody (Carrie-Ann Moss) is the head of an FBI Counter-Terrorism team, given the job of investigating potential terrorists on American soil. When one of their targets - an American Muslim convert called Steven Arthur Younger (Michael Sheen), now calling himself Yousef - slips through the net, he creates a video claiming to have planted 3 nuclear bombs in 3 different cities in America.
Younger has been captured by the military, and it's Agent Brody's job to learn the locations of the bombs. Brody, however, is not working alone. Due to a fast approaching deadline, a black ops professional interrogator named 'H' (Samuel L Jackson) is brought in to act as the main interrogator, and he has been authorised by the highest powers to use any methods necessary, even those torture methods deemed illegal, in order to extract the desired information from Younger.

Given Younger is ex-military, it's clear that he has prepared himself to face the usual interrogation routines, but H is not about to do things by the book. H and Brody clash over the moral dilemmas of interrogation, but Brody and Younger have no ideas of the unthinkable lengths H will go to in order to extract the truth..." (source)

The movie deals with issue of torture to extract information. Is it morally correct to use any means necessary, no matter how inhumane, for the greater good. Sounds similar to the question raised in Rendition. In Unthinkable it is about getting the location of 3 nuclear bombs planted in American cities that will kill millions, and deactivating them before they are detonated.

Austin is the only actor from The Informers to appear in the movie. And what's Austin’s cameo? A FBI bomb disposal expert in the last scene of the movie.



The movie was filmed from October to December 2008 in LA.

We've know that Austin and Jake have given little winks/ messages to each other on screen, and even a cameo is no different. Let's just say this was an easy pick.

And Jake? What was he doing in October to December 2008? Well he was back and forth from London and LA finishing up PoP. And was doing pickin' and grinning too. Looks like he was sending a wink back.


And from the small world file. Well Sam Jackson has known Jake as a kid. But Jake's dad in Donnie Darko, Holmes Osborne was also in Unthinkable too.


Have a great Austin Friday.