I was living at that time with Jan Fischer, who went on to The Lost Boys our best friend became Luke Skywalker and I became Freddy Krueger.
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It’s a bit like the Tarantino movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I remember saying: “Guess what? George Lucas is making this space movie.” We both loved American Graffiti, so Mark called his agent and put her under pressure to get him an audition. We’d watch together in the afternoon and then call our agents at 5pm to see how our auditions had gone. Mark was watching the Bob Newhart or Mary Tyler Moore show. He was working down the hill at the CBS studios as a very successful television actor. I went back to my apartment in the Hollywood Hills and my buddy Mark Hamill’s cowboy boots were on my front porch. That’s all I remember.īut as I left, I snatched the audition sides for this much younger character called Luke Skywalker. They looked at me for five minutes, took a couple of Polaroids I did not read. George Lucas was my hero, so I thought: “Hell, I’ll go.” At the time, they wanted Han Solo to be played older, like a cool uncle who lets you smoke marijuana at Christmas. As I was leaving, one of the producers told me they were casting across the hall for this George Lucas space movie. They heard that I was a surfer, so I read for the surfer, but I think they thought I was too old. I wanted to read for Chef – played by the great Frederic Forrest – but that part had been taken.
I think a couple of 6ft 2in grips soiled their underwear, so I knew I still had it.ĭid you really audition for the parts of Luke and Han Solo in Star Wars? How far did you get? TopTramp I did sometimes worry that I wasn’t scary any more, so once in a while I would hide behind the scenery and leer out of the dark at some unsuspecting crew member on their way to the bathroom. The waiter took one good look at me, dropped his tray, backed into the kitchen and we never saw him again. I took off the hat, we ordered, and as the waiter opened the kitchen doors, I was illuminated with bright fluorescent lighting. Making the first movie, I got sick of the catered food, so Nick Corri, Johnny Depp and I went across Sunset Boulevard and sat at the back booth of this dark Thai restaurant. But during filming, we certainly used to have fun. I leave Halloween to the amateur dress-up people and I leave New Year’s Eve to the amateur drinkers. Watch the trailer for Englund’s latest movie, Choose or Die.ĭo you dress up as Freddy on Halloween and frighten children? TopTramp I know Wes thought we took it too far, but we were responding to the fans who loved this unapologetic, politically incorrect wise-ass, exercising his nightmare revenge mode. He cuts off his fingers and cracks wise as the green pus and blood spurts outs. In the original Nightmare, Freddy sticks his tongue out of a phone, eviscerates a girl and wears her face as a mask as a cheap thrill. But by the time we got to part seven, we made him very dark again: what if Freddy, the manifestation of evil, was really out there?īut Freddy was always a wisecrack. The fans loved the dark, cruel clown sense of humour, which became apparent when people began quoting Freddy’s lines, like: “I’m your boyfriend now.” So we exploited that as the franchise progressed. So that backstage goofing around really helps for when they say: “Action,” so you can step over into acting reality.ĭo you have a favourite iteration of Freddy, from the dark origins of the first two to the wisecracking sequels and the return to a darker Freddy in New Nightmare? ninkwink You’d be stepping over puppeteers and animatronic crews crawling around dressed like ninjas. I know Mark Patton agreed we should play on the sexual innuendo of Freddy circumcising his mouth with my blade.īack in the days of practical effects, so much was left to the imagination. I’d tell dirty jokes, which I think repulsed her, but correlated to Freddy’s nastiness and innuendo, and helped break the ice. I remember teasing Heather Langenkamp, who was a Russian major at Stanford University.
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We’d all be getting up at dawn, puffy eyed, full of caffeine, apprehensive about the day’s work. Making movies, you certainly develop an actors’ rapport. Did that make it difficult killing most of them on screen? Ker555 In behind-the-scenes photos from A Nightmare on Elm Street, there seems to be a great bond between you and the young cast.
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