I’ve stopped doing cameos: Vijay Sethupathi

Vijay Sethupathi confirmed that he’s now following a strict no-cameo coverage and intends to stay to it, with one exception: Rajinikanth’s ‘Jailer 2’. And even that, he stated, got here with a logic that had nothing to do with the movie itself.

“I’ve stopped doing cameos,” Sethupathi stated in an interview with Gobinath, including, “I did just one lately in Jailer 2’. That was in order that I may see Rajini sir.”

The reasoning behind the rule, he defined, is business moderately than inventive. Sethupathi stated that when he seems in a cameo in one other actor’s movie, it finally ends up affecting the enterprise of his personal releases. “If I do a cameo in his movie, folks gained’t even discover me. But when I do it in different movies, it impacts them,” Sethupathi stated.

He additionally stated the choice to seem in ‘Jailer 2’ was pushed by his private admiration for Rajinikanth and the chance to study from somebody who has sustained stardom for almost 5 a long time. He defined, “I did a cameo in ‘Jailer 2’ as a result of I like Rajinikanth. With him, I bought to study rather a lot. The superstars survived on this business for thus many a long time. There’s a lot to study.”

Regardless of the blanket rule, Vijay Sethupathi left a small window open. “In the end, the script decides it. If I really feel it’s the correct match, I’ll do it,” he stated, suggesting that the no-cameo coverage shouldn’t be absolute however calibrated by intuition.

Sethupathi has additionally spoken about his method to villain roles, a class intently associated to the cameo query. He stated most antagonist elements supplied to him are written as typical villains designed to raise the hero moderately than serve the story. “The filmmakers are bringing me common, typical villain roles, which I don’t wish to do. Now I’m doing villain for the script solely, which excites me.”