They had to hold back on putting blood on me, I just wanted more and more. His passion was so contagious, you know – he was the guy showing zombies how to eat intestines, and getting his clothes bloody and dirty, and that’s how I felt. When he was working on the first cut, he said to me that he could see in my performance that I’d put my heart and soul into it, and that meant the world to me. I was so into the movie I just wanted to be there, and I’m glad I did, because to have it go through that long journey, I feel so much validation for being so passionate about it.Īnd I think Drew respected that. We shot it in Vancouver, and I bought a bike up there, and I would ride it, even when they were shooting the stuff with Bradley and Richard in the control room, I would go to set. It’s so much fun to watch, so it’s kind of nice to think it was that much fun to make, too… It fits, it’s natural it’s like putting on a good shoe or something. It’s a rare thing when you read a role and have this immediate ownership over it, you have this take and this connection, and it’s not even that you feel that you’re gonna do a good job, it’s that you feel like you’ve found it. I would sit around brainstorming actors that I thought might be better for the part than me. The audition process was nerve-wracking because I wanted it really badly. From now on, horror films can be anything and everything, there’s no limits on the setting and the situation and the villain, whether it’s a psychopath or the supernatural Cabin In The Woods throws it all in. It was so good it was disturbing it was like it put a bomb in the genre, it sort of blew it up. I put that script down and had to walk outside because I knew if I didn’t get this part it was going to haunt me for the rest of my life. And then the fact that it had such a banal title, you know, ‘Cabin In The Woods’, I had a hunch, I thought “they’re up to something”, and even going in with those expectations I was blown away. I was such a big fan of Cloverfield I didn’t know Drew that well but I loved his work so I had such high expectations for the script. So I just love the idea of a horror film period, and if Joss and Drew are involved then it was sort of too good to be true. I’ve always wanted to die a bloody death in a movie, I feel like that’s a rite of passage. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents’ walls and stuff. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions Jello and milk was a good one. When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. That was the big attraction of the movie for me, I’ve always wanted to be in a horror movie. So once they saw that and saw that I could do this for real, I got the script and then the rest is history.įor sure, for sure. I bet they have them, because they had a fake monologue for every character, and mine was my friend’s head had been chopped off by the Click-Clack Man, and I was being questioned by the police, and it was totally nuts. And I thought that was strange, because I knew the guy, you know I was looking at the guy!Īnyway, so I read these crazy fake sides that now I wish I’d kept. It was strange to me because I was working with Joss, and a lot of times if you’re familiar at all with the director, or the director is familiar with your work, you sometimes go straight in for the writer and director or the producers, but this was just a regular pre-read. I was on Dollhouse, and I basically saw Joss all the time, but I got an audition for it like any other movie. So, let’s go back to the beginning: how did you get involved with the film? It’s very exciting and now the real journey to cult classic status begins – I’m really hoping that’s the way it goes! That’s the way people are watching their movies now on demand, online, or on Netflix, or whatever, so I feel like, in a way, this is our wide opening. It was the best script I’d ever read, so to talk about a theatrical release was exciting, but to talk about a DVD release is actually even more exciting because in today’s world, DVDs reach more people. You know, once it missed the first release date, and then the second release date, people thought it was done for, but to me it was the best thing I’d ever done. It’s incredibly satisfying as much faith as I had in that movie, and as much as I stood by it even when my friends and family thought I was a crazy person for babbling about this movie that either would never come out or may not even exist at all, people really doubted this movie and its future once it disappeared. I’m pretty obsessed with it as well, so you’re okay. You’ll be the one who ends up walking away, like, “wow, that guy is obsessed with his movie.” You know, I love that movie unlike any other movie I’ve been in or been a part of, so I’ll talk about it all day.
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