The 32-year-old actor, who plays a motorcycle-riding small town crook in his new drama 'The Place Beyond the Pines', said playing the tattooed bad boy indulged his lifelong fantasies about robbing a bank because he is too scared to do it in real life, reported Contactmusic.
"I've always had this fantasy about robbing banks, but I'm scared of jail. I'll never do it, but I would, if I didn't have to go to jail.
"We shot all the bank robberies in one take so I got to have as close to the real experience as possible, as close as I'm ever going to get. I got it out of my system. I'm too afraid of jail," he said.
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