I may have found my guy to play the villainous namesake of Roderick Kills. I've received the preliminary "ok" from him with a couple understandings that I don't think will be enough to dissuade me from thinking he's the source of my evil.
I've heard a lot of actors say that it's more fun to play villains. I can see that. You get to play around with it and in some ways the door is wide open for how you want to interpret creepy. Some actors have made careers of it. From Robert Englund to Jack Nicholson to Tobin Bell to old school folks like Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff there's a proud tradition of actors who play creepy over and over again.
While my choice is technically not an actor, few people in this production are. I think there's something fantastic about not using anyone who has the ego or acting guild associations that come with a lot of "real" actors.
In any case I hope that he'll find it fun, being creepy. Having your villainous actor chosen in a horror film named after the villain is kinda essential I think. So I know it's at least a relief to me. And if he enjoys it enough maybe I can talk him into the sequel?
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Don't underestimate my ego.
Yes, thank you for making my fiance the possible evil doer in your film. Since I am freaked out by any horror film (even seeing a snippet in passing while flipping channels or film trailers) I can only imagine the outcome of having said fiance come to bed late, late at night after viewing said film. Possible grounds for divorce?? ;)
Surely you know that anything I can do to promote the notion of marital bliss will be done.
I suggested to him that an alternate audio track could be made with voice-overs just for you. Instead of a psycho killer he would be defending puppies from Mr. Burns or something.
If any of it gives you nightmares just wake him up and yell at him. That'll show him.
Great... now egos are involved. It's all downhill from here.
Anything you can do to alleviate possible relationship trauma will be greatly appreciated...
Could you also have him skip through a field of daisies? (Not that it would help from visualizing him as my own personal psycho killer... I'd just like to have him skipping through daisies permanently on film.)
urm... a field of daisies you say? Urm. I'll see what I can do.
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