Hey folks, Harry here with the latest super interview from
Quint, our arrrrsome swabber of decks and chunker of chum.
Though this time... well this time he has a visitation with a
geek god... a man upon a throne of cool... the man that the
world simply does not understand is their leader... Yes, I am
of course speaking of BRUCE CAMPBELL, now bow your heads
puppies and read the gospel according to St Campbell...
Ahoy squirts. The totally groovy and crusty seaman,
Quint, here with yet another round table celebrity scar
sharin’, this time with the coolest of the cool, the grooviest
of the groovy, the man with the boomstick and the best damn B
Actor of our time, Bruce Campbell. This interview was done in
person up in Dallas where Bruce was wrapping up his shooting
on Servicing Sara. You know what day? It was perfect... This
interview was conducted on ASH WEDNESDAY... That was a good
omen.
I was there along with My Fair Spanish Maiden, Tom Joad,
El Cosmico, Annette Kellerman and Mouth. Cos, Joad and Mouth
were manning DV cams of various sizes for possible inclusion
into the mysterious AICN TV Show. This is my first interview
with a crew present... I had "decorations" because of the
cameras. I mention this only because the Evil Dead poster,
Evil Dead 2 script and McFarlane’s Ash toy come into play
during the interview. Check it out, you primitive screwheads
and enjoy.
QUINT: FIRST, YOU HAVE A LOT ON YOUR PLATE AT THE
MOMENT. I WOULD GUESS IT’S BECAUSE OF THE IMPENDING STRIKE.
BRUCE CAMPBELL: Yeah, the whole strike thing has gotten
everyone freaking out. They’re making everything they possibly
can in about three months, so even if there is no strike,
there’s going to be no work anywhere because they’ve already
spent their little budget. So, I don’t know what’s going on.
It’s been crazy for me. I’m sort of doing four films back to
back. I don’t know if that’s because of the strike or
whatever. I have no idea.
Q: ONE OF THE MOVIES YOU’RE DOING IS SERVICING SARA,
WHICH I HEAR YOU FINISHED UP YESTERDAY.
BC: Uh, I thought I finished it yesterday. Apparently
Mr. Perry needs a little extra time, so ah... we’re just going
to wait and see. That’s the official line. Let’s see... now
what am I supposed to say? I don’t know anything.
Q: OK, I’LL NOTE THAT.
BC: How’s that? I don’t know anything about the Matthew
Perry situation.
Q: WHAT’S THE MOVIE ABOUT?
BC: I play this guy named Gordon Moore, I’m married to
Elizabeth Hurley, briefly. For some reason I exchange her for
a new, cute model and the divorce proceedings start. The trick
is I want to serve her for divorce in Texas because I own all
the judges. He’s a good ol’ boy. She wants to serve me in New
York City where she’ll have a fighting chance. So Matthew
Perry is her process servicer. So, they try to serve me before
I try to serve her. It’s a whacky mayhem ensues thing.
Q: YOU’RE GOING ON TO BUBBA HO-TEP NEXT, RIGHT?
BC: Yeah. Bubba Ho-Tep, which I don’t even know how to
describe, that movie.
Q: WELL, I DO KNOW YOU’RE PLAYING A 70 YEAR OLD ELVIS,
OR AN ELVIS IMPERSONATOR...
BC: Yeah... no, no. It’s the real Elvis. It’s the real
Elvis that swaps... you don’t have your facts right. See,
years ago he swaps with an Elvis impersonator because Elvis
was tired of the fast life, so what he wanted to do was just
play those little gigs again like he use to. So, he made a
deal, signed a contract with an Elvis impersonator... a really
good one... not one of the crappy Elvis impersonators. That’s
the guy who died.
So, Elvis is now living in a rest home, he’s old, he’s
semi-cancerous, all his good days are before him and he meets
a guy who thinks he’s JFK, played by Ossie Davis. The guy who
thinks he’s JFK is convinced that the mummy Bubba Ho-Tep is
sneaking into the rest home at night and sucking the souls out
of the old people because they’re easy prey. So, Elvis and
Jack Kennedy team up and defeat... it turns out it’s real.
It’s true, so they team up to defeat Bubba Ho-Tep. It’s a very
strange script.
Q: THAT’S SOUNDS REALLY COOL.
BC: The KNB FX guys are doing the Elvis. We’re doing
prosthetics for everything. It’s not going to be me playing
Elvis, it’s hopefully just gonna be Elvis. You’ll never see me
without make-up on, without some form of prosthetic.
Q: OF COURSE. THAT’S HOW THE MOVIE WILL WORK THE BEST.
BC: I think so.
Q: COOL. I’M FRIENDS WITH DON (COSCARELLI, THE DIRECTOR)
AND IT LOOKS LIKE I’LL BE OUT ON SET AND GET TO STALK YA’ FOR
A WEEK.
BC: Good. Lovely.
Q: SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO, ANYWAY. HAS DON HAD ANY
LUCK RAISING MONEY FOR PHANTASM 5?
BC: Not that I’m aware of.
Q: IF HE DOES, ARE YOU STILL GOING TO BE INVOLVED?
BC: Yeah, if he does, if he gets his act together... you
know, it’s a fun script and seems like it makes perfect sense.
But, that whole rumor stuff... Unless something is real, it’ s
just hard to talk about it. It’s hard to talk about all the
what ifs. You know, Evil Dead 4, Phantasm 58... you know, when
it happens it happens.
Q: WELL, SOMETHING THAT YOU ARE DOING, THAT WE DON’T
HAVE TO SPECULATE ABOUT, IS YOUR BOOK.
BC: That’s right, the Book! The Book (and he holds up
the script to Evil Dead 2) Although this isn’t a book, this is
the cheesy script to Evil Dead 2. (He flips through and reads)
"Ahhh!" "Nooooo" "Workshed..." Yeah, OK. (Points at a page)
Lot of omitted scenes there for budget purposes.
Yeah, I have a book coming out in June and I think it’s
LA Weekly Books, a division of St. Martin’s Press. So, I can’t
say enough about that. I’m doing a book tour. June, July,
August will be the tour. I’m hoping on my website we’ll set up
some sort of schedule so people will know when I’m going to be
where. We’ll be making all the convention rounds. What I’m
going to do is actually increase the convention appearances
and sort of connect those up with the book, with the book
tour, a book signing.
Q: THAT’S A REALLY GOOD IDEA.
BC: Now look at it this way. If you’re a fan... I’m
gonna sell ya’ for a little bit. I don’t know how much the
book is... I’m sure it’s $19 or $20... whatever. Each photo
you buy there at the convention is $10. Maybe I’ll sign it,
maybe I won’t. Depends on the line. But if you buy the book,
I’m telling both of these cameras now and this camera over
here... all three cameras. If you buy the book, I will sign it
regardless of how long it takes to wait in line.
In the book, now, there literally are hundreds of
photographs, some of which you’ve seen before, but many, many,
many which you’ve never seen before. So, for twenty stinkin’
bucks, man. What could possibly go wrong?
Q: WHAT A BARGAIN!
BC: Yeah, even if it sucks, you got lots of photographs.
Q: EXACTLY AND IF YOU CAN’T READ YOU’RE COVERED, TOO.
BC: And if you can’t read, just flip to the pictures.
Absolutely. You can watch me age. Just start at the beginning
and go to the end.
Q: SO, TELL US ABOUT THE BOOK. WHAT GOT YOU STARTED ON
IT?
BC: I have a bunch of sort of rants and stories on my
website, not many, but then a book agent, a literary agent
contacted me and said, "Hey, why don’t you write a book?" I’m
like, yeah... OK... whatever. He said, "No, really. You should
write a book." I thought, "OK, well what do we have to do." He
said, "Well, let’s come up with an outline... like a
Cliffnotes version of the book," like it’s already written and
we shopped that around to publishers and apparently that
interested them enough to get one or two on the hook, then one
of them finally said, "Well, what about a chapter? Could you
just do a full chapter so we can see what it’s like, to see if
it can sustain itself."
So, I did that and finally made a deal with St. Martin’s
Press. That’s how it came about. And that was about four years
ago. So, this is like giving birth, this stupid book. I can’t
wait. I can’t wait to get it out there finally ‘cause it’s
just done. Every time I’ve had any spare time, it’s always
been working on the book and I’ve been working a fair amount,
so there hasn’t been much time to really do anything.
Q: WHAT’S GONNA BE INVOLVED IN THE BOOK?
BC: You tell me what you want to hear and I’ll tell you
if it’s true or not. What do you want to hear about as a
pseudo fan and I’ll tell you if it’s in there.
Q: AS A PSEUDO FAN? WELL, DEEP DOWN INSIDE I’D LIKE TO
KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING ABOUT THE MANIAC COP SERIES...
BC: The Maniac Cop series? Sure, it’s in there. There’s
a mention of it. I’ve mentioned just about everything I’ve
worked on in one form or another. It’s all kinds of stuff.
It’s a little bit... Obviously it’s all the historical stuff.
You know, my ridiculous childhood which led to becoming an
actor and the process of becoming an actor.
That’s more what it is. From the suburbs of Detroit to
being in movies. Then, just following the flow of it all, it’s
a little bit of a fly on the wall because I’ve been around
Hollywood and in it. I haven’t been in the A Leagues, just
sort of the B Leagues, but it’s enough to sort of look at how
the industry works. There’s behind the scenes, lots of the
behind the scenes stories. It’s very anecdotal. I don’t know.
Hopefully there’s a little something for everybody. There’s
even a chapter about fans in there!
Q: WELL, YOU GOT A DOCUMENTARY YOU DID ABOUT FANS...
BC: That’s right! Fanalysis. I don’t know if the
documentary is going to be included in the book or not. I’m
trying to see if I can get a DVD included in the book. So,
then it’d be an even better deal. Buy the book, get a DVD...
but I don’t know yet. I can’t say that. I don’t want your
legion on fans saying, (high-pitched, nerdy voice) "You lied
to me, I want my money back!"
Q: ALSO ON YOUR PLATE IS A CAMEO YOU DID ON SPIDER-MAN.
BC: Yep!
Q: FROM WHAT I’VE HEARD, YOU ARE ACTUALLY THE PERSON TO
GIVE SPIDER-MAN HIS NAME.
BC: I give him his name. I’m the ring announcer in this
big WWF kind of event where Spider-Man has his first little
fight. I ask him, "Well, what’s your name, kid?" And he goes,
"The Human Spider." It’s like, "Naw, you gotta do better than
that." Then I announced him, "The Amazing Spider-Man," so that
was fun. It was fun to work with Sam (Raimi) again and just
fool around on a big budget movie for a couple of days.
Q: WELL, SINCE YOU HAVE A CAMEO, DOES THAT MEAN WE’RE
GOING TO SEE "THE CLASSIC" IN SPIDER-MAN, TOO?
BC: The cars were on the lot. I have whole section of
Sam’s Classic in my book. It’s called "You Will Never Kill My
Classic" and it’s a history of Sam’s car. I’ve got all kinds
of great photos of it, intimate photos of how that car came to
be.
So, I don’t know. I think it might be because Sam puts
it in every one of his movies. Like, literally every one of
his movies.
Q: VERY COOL. I GUESS WE NOW GO ONTO...
BC: Then there was this movie, The Majestic, that I just
finished. It use to be called The Bijou, now it’s called The
Majestic.
Q: YEAH, YOU GET TO PLAY A SWASHBUCKLER IN THAT.
BC: Yes, I’m in a movie within the movie. Jim Carrey
plays a blacklisted writer and that’s one of the movies that
he wrote. I’m the actor in that movie, so I have no scenes
with Mr. Carrey.
Q: YEAH, BUT YOU GET TO BE A SWASHBUCKLER IN A ‘50s
ADVENTURE FILM!
BC: Yes. It was fun, it was fun. It was all black and
white, so it should look pretty neat.
Q: THE LAST TIME YOU DID A BLACK AND WHITE MOVIE WAS
RUNNING TIME, RIGHT?
BC: Correct. They don’t do much black and white now.
It’s too old fashioned for you punk kids. It’s not colorful
enough! It’s not handheld enough. There are no jump cuts, so I
hope you guys will be OK when you watch it. Hope you’ll be
able to follow it.
Q: WE’LL DO OUR BEST. I HEAR THAT EVERYBODY’S FAVORITE
GOLDEN IDOL MAKES A CAMEO IN THE MAJESTIC. DID YOU GET TO PLAY
AROUND WITH THAT?
BC: What does that mean?
Q: THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK IDOL?
BC: I didn’t see it, no.
Q: REALLY? MORIARTY, WHO I GUESS YOU TALKED TO A BIT
WHEN HE VISITED, SAYS THE GOLDEN IDOL WAS WORSHIPPED HOURLY ON
SET. HE SAID DARABONT WAS ABLE TO GET IT FROM SPIELBERG...
BC: Maybe he gets hit. Actually, I think Cliff Curtis,
who plays the evil Khalid, I think he hits the professor on
the back of the head with it. I didn’t recognize it being from
that.
Q: YEAH, THAT’S THE ONE.
BC: Wow. There you go. That’s a little trivia for you...
For you internet freaks!
Q: YEAH, THAT’S BASICALLY THE AUDIENCE YOU’RE PLAYING TO
DURING THIS INTERVIEW... BUT THE IDOL IS COOL AND ALL, BUT IT
IS NO PAIR OF RUBBER PANTS.
BC: They’re what? That’s right, they’re no rubber pants.
Q: YOU’RE LIKE, "UH-OH. I KNOW WHAT’S COMING UP..."
BC: It’s a very obscure reference now. These people will
have no idea what you’re talking about.
Q: WELL, THEY WILL AFTER THE NEXT QUESTION.
BC: OK.
Q: THAT WAS A REFERENCE TO A SUPER 8 FILM YOU DID WITH
SAM RAIMI AND JOSH BECKER CALLED WADERS OF THE LOST PARK,
WHICH, BY THE WAY, WAS SHOWN RECENTLY WITH RAIDERS OF THE LOST
ARK AT THE ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE IN AUSTIN.
BC: It was? It was shown with the real movie?! Really?
Q: YEAH, BEFORE THE MOVIE.
BC: As like a short before the movie? That’s hysterical!
Good lord! What did you do, show it on video or something?
Q: YEAH, THEY HAD A VIDEO. OF COURSE IT WAS TERRIBLY
BOOTLEGGED, BUT STILL...
BC: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Q: IT WAS STILL FUN TO WATCH NONETHELESS. YOU GOT A BIG
APPLAUSE, BY THE WAY, WHEN YOU FIRST POPPED UP.
BC: You guys should let us know because I can always get
better copies of that stuff. Of course, you’d steal it and
bootleg it again... so maybe not.
Q: SO YOU GUYS DID A BUNCH OF SUPER 8 STUFF. IT MUST
HAVE BEEN A BLAST DOING THAT KIND OF STUFF.
BC: Yeah, doing all those cheesy Super 8 movies. Now you
say Super 8 and people go, "Oh, video?" No, Super 8 movies.
Super 8 millimeter. Yeah, we didn’t really date. I never had
girlfriends or anything like that. That’s what we did, that
was our activity. Then we were just sort of dodging reality I
think. By the end of high school we realized we had better do
something for a living. So, that’s how that led into making
the first film.
Q: EXACTLY. YOU USED "WITHIN THE WOODS" TO RAISE MONEY
FOR THE FIRST EVIL DEAD MOVIE.
BC: There are awful bootlegs of that floating around
where you can’t even see what’s going on. It’s like, just out
of courtesy I want to put out a better bootleg version just so
people can watch it.
Q: I HAVEN’T SEEN IT MYSELF, BUT I HEAR YOU PLAYED THE
MONSTER.
BC: Yeah. I play the hapless boyfriend who becomes the
bad guy. Where there was a woman being terrorized, much like
the Jamie Lee Curtis type in Halloween, but when we went to do
the first Evil Dead film, Sam thought, "Well, let’s put a guy
in that situation. Let’s reduce a guy to a screaming coward."
He thought you could make it much more horrible of that’s the
case. So, not for me to judge.
Q: WAS IT TOUGH RAISING THE MONEY?
BC: Yeah, it was real hard. It was awful. It took four
years to make the movie because we kept running out of money.
Raising money is the hardest part. Making the movie is no big
deal, not compared to raising the money, because you’ve got to
put these legal documents together and meet with lawyers and
CPAs and sit at meeting after meeting in rooms like this with
board executives where you’re trying to pitch them on how much
money they’re going to make. You can’t even guarantee that
they’re gonna make money. There’s a little bit about that in
the book, this whole fundraising stuff. I guess you’ll just
have to read the book for that answer.
Q: THE LOCATION FOR EVIL DEAD, THE MAIN CABIN AND THE
SURROUNDING WOODS COME ACROSS VERY SCARY ON-SCREEN. WERE YOU
CREEPED OUT AT ALL DURING THE SHOOTING OF THE MOVIE?
BC: Well, you know, there’s a creepy story behind the
cabin. Originally, in the ‘30s, there was a woman named, I
think it’s Clara, who was a little girl. Over the course of
one night I think both of her parents are killed and it was
during a horrible storm. She wandered off... she was not
killed, for whatever reason and was found wandering.
Supposedly during bad storms she’ll just wander now, to this
day.
So, in 1979, there had been a bad storm near the time
where we were shooting and Clara was found wandering back in
the woods behind the cabin, now a very old lady. So, the cabin
itself had a pretty creepy history. By the time we found it,
the cows had taken it over. There was no electricity. There
was no running water. We had to get the cow manure off the
floor and put power to it. Sorta redo it. Then it burned down.
Some people squatted in the home. This was rural Tennessee, so
we were in the land of squatters and sorta white trash. The
cabin eventually burned down about a year later.
Then some kids found it, some INTERNET GEEKS found it!
They did! I was at a film festival in Champagne Urbana, IL and
some kid plunked a stone in front of me and I said, "What’s
this?" He goes, "What do you think? Hehehhehehehe..." I go, "I
don’t know. C’mon, give me a hint." He goes,
"Ahahhhhahhehehehee." It was... Sam Raimi wanted the fireplace
of the cabin to look like teeth, so my brother, Don, who was
helping on the movie, just went, "Oh... OK," and just
plastered in these craggy stones.
The guys had found... because the fireplace had survived
the fire. Fire... Place... So, he brought one in, so the
secret is out. Then another kid sent me a long email about how
he tried to find the time capsule that we buried. We buried a
time capsule that had a little note and, according to Sam, a
visual code to the movie. It would decipher the whole movie if
you found this code. It was a visual code. And there were some
other artifacts. We put it in a cigar box and buried it.
But it was under the house, where the trapdoor was and
where the supposed basement was, which was only four feet of
steps going down. That’s where we buried it. So, it got dark
and the kid had to go before he found it.
They’re going to have strange rituals down at that
cabin. I just know it now. Weekend rituals, drinking binges
and sacrificing children. I’m terrified.
Q: YEAH, I REMEMBER YOU GUYS MENTIONING THE TIME CAPSULE
ON THE DVD. I WAS WONDERING IF SOME FAN HAD RUN OUT THERE AND
TRIED TO FIND IT YET.
BC: Yeah, they did. Several people made it. They’ve been
sorta sneaking into Morristown, TN and sniffing around.
Someone’s going to get shot, too. It’s not the area where you
go looking through people’s backyards.
We had guys up on the hills, watching us at night. I
went down to the cabin one morning, I was taking grocery’s
down. We had posted a look out because some power tools were
stolen, which was classic because it was right next to a
$20,000 Ariflex camera and they took the Skill Saw, ‘cause
that’s all they need in rural Tennessee. (Hillbilly accent)
"Shiet. I don’t need a camera! I need that saw..."
So, we posted a lookout at the house. After shooting
each night, one of us would sleep out. If it was my turn, I’d
just put a hat over my bloody hair and put a coat over my
bloody shirt and just shiver by the fire all night. It was
very glamorous, though.
But I saw a guy coming up the road that had shotgun
shells across his chest and a huge shotgun and big beard. It’s
like what do you do? What do you say to that guy? So, I just
said, "Good morning." He went, "Mornin’." I guess he had been
hunting back up in there. I figured he had killed Sam. It was
Sam’s night that previous night. I thought I’d come in and
just find blood all over the walls, but unfortunately he was
fine... ah... I mean fortunately.
Q: STEPHEN KING GAVE YOU GUYS A VERY AWESOME QUOTE THAT
MADE IT ON THE POSTER.
BC: Yes, "the most ferocious original horror film of the
year." It helped a lot because it gave us legitimacy because
it was just another horror film at that point. But he saw it
at the Cannes film festival in France and sort of put his seal
of approval on it. Then the critics just sort of just backed
away and went, "Yeah! We like this movie, too! Yeah! It’s an
instant classic!" But the film did get all kinds of reviews.
It got good reviews and some really bad ones.
Q: WELL, I MEAN WITH A MOVIE LIKE THAT YOU’RE GOING TO
DIVIDE NOT ONLY THE CRITICS, BUT THE AUDIENCE AS WELL.
BC: Yeah, I think so, too. It’s fair to say. It’s not
for everybody, it’s not a chick flick. Although, from what I
understand a lot of guys test their girlfriend with those
movies. If their girlfriends like it, then they’ll go out with
them.
Q: YES, I’VE HEARD OF SUCH THINGS. AFTER THE FIRST EVIL
DEAD FILM YOU WENT ON TO DO CRIMEWAVE, WHICH WAS A PRETTY COOL
MOVIE THAT WAS OVERLOOKED BY A LOT OF PEOPLE.
BC: Oh, I don’t know if it was overlooked, I think it
was... I liken it to the movie Brazil. Where the movie is good
in 10 minute pieces. Like if I watched the movie Brazil in 10
minute chunks, I’d really like it, but watched as a whole it
just gets annoying. I think it’s kind of an annoying movie
because it tried to be everything.
We were very concerned that Evil Dead was too gross for
a lot of people and people fainted and barfed and all that
sort of stuff and we wanted to make something that was a
little more accessible. So, we tried to make a romantic
comedy/action with dance sequences and it just... wow. It just
didn’t cut it.
Q: WELL, THE COEN BROTHERS ACTUALLY WROTE THAT FILM,
RIGHT?
BC: Yeah, they cowrote it with Sam.
Q: YOU LATER WENT ON TO DO HUDSUCKER PROXY WITH THEM...
BC: Well, Joel Coen worked on the first Evil Dead. Joel
Coen was the assistant editor of the first Evil Dead. So,
yeah, we go back a ways with those guys and I finally worked
with them officially on the Hudsucker Proxy.
Q: DEFINITELY. YOU SEEMED TOTALLY AT EASE PLAYING A FAST
TALKING ‘50s REPORTER. WAS THAT AN EASY ROLE TO FALL INTO?
BC: Yeah, it was fun. That was actually a lot of fun,
but it was intimidating being with Jennifer Jason Leigh. You
know, she’s like a real actress... she had so many lines in
that movie... I was there for the first two weeks of
rehearsal, ‘cause during rehearsal of Hudsucker I got to sort
of read the other parts of the people who weren’t there for
rehearsal, so it was great. I could really sit and watch.
She knew every one of her lines from first day of
rehearsal. Every single one. And I knew that she would never
screw up ever, so it got me really nervous. Normally actors
blow lines all the time. Now I’m like, "Aw, crap. I’m boned,
man." So, I just had to really concentrate.
Q: AND YOU GOT TO SMACK HER ON THE ASS.
BC: (Pause) Yes, I did smack her on the ass.
Q: (LAUGHING) HOW WAS THAT?
BC: How was that?!? (laughs) How would you like it to
be? What do you think it’d be like to smack Jennifer Jason
Leigh on the ass?
Q: I IMAGINE IT’D BE PRETTY DAMN GOOD, BUT I DON’T KNOW.
I’VE NEVER HAD THE OPPORTUNITY.
BC: Well, what do you think... do you think she has a
doughy butt? A kind of a hard body butt? What do you think?
Body by Jake butt?
Q: I DON’T KNOW... I COULD SEE IT HAVING A LITTLE GIVE.
BC: A little give? (laughs) She had a very tight dress
on, so frankly it was hard to judge. How’s that? I felt mainly
wool.
Q: WAS THE SEQUEL TO EVIL DEAD SOMETHING YOU GUYS WERE
REALLY JUMPING TO DO OR...
BC: No, it was out of necessity. Crimewave bombed a
thousand deaths, so we went, "Aww, crap. We gotta do something
that makes money." Evil Dead 1 had done really well, so we
thought, "Well, maybe Ash didn’t die... Maybe that evil force
didn’t really get him," so we just continued on from there. It
just sort of happened. We never gave it all that much thought,
I don’t think.
Q: WELL, THE FILM COMES ACROSS AS A SERIES OF BEATINGS
ON YOU...
BC: Yeah, it’s a drinking game, too.
Q: DID YOU HAVE ANY INJURIES OR CLOSE CALLS?
BC: No, I’ve never really been officially injured on a
movie to the point where I’d have to stop shooting. I got a
cut on my face for Army of Darkness. I was flipping a stuntman
down the stairs... I went to the emergency room and I already
had 8 other cuts on my face and the doctor’s like "Well, which
one is it?" I go, "I don’t know. Feel around... it’s somewhere
over here." So, he just stitched me up and I went back to
work. It didn’t hurt continuity at all because it was just
another cut.
But I still have my little scabs from The Majestic,
throwing myself back onto a pit. I had to do the beginnings of
a flip, like in Xena, so I still give for my art. I still
suffer for the audience.
Q: AND WE APPRECIATE IT. HOW DID ARMY OF DARKNESS COME
ABOUT?
BC: Army of Darkness kinda had to wait until Sam was
done with Darkman. That was written earlier, but shot later.
Originally, part 2 was going to be Army of Darkness. Ash was
going to get caught in this evil entity and get taken
immediately back to 1300, but that didn’t work out, so...
Eventually, again it was the strength of Evil Dead 2.
That made money. That made money even before we started
shooting. They bid some pre sells for it and it was already in
to profit when we were in to preproduction. So, we went, "Oh,
cool!"
So, Army of Darkness wasn’t that hard to put together.
But that was a long, grueling experience. That was a tough
shoot. There’s quite a bit about Army of Darkness in The Book
that’s coming out. | 
