Max: Okay, Bruce, these are
some questions about your book, some clarification questions...
Bruce: Shoot.
Bruce: Okay. In
“Fanalysis,” there was a guy asking you on the street how he could
get in contact with you “about scripts.” About how often does that
happen to you?
Bruce:
About once a convention. I’ll get some guy who’s got a synopsis or
he’ll give me a full script and they’re usually just looking for
funding. And the thing I usually tell them is until they put the
money together there’s no point in reading it, really. My thing is,
I think filmmakers have to make that step. They gotta show that they
can do this, that they can pull it together, and then I’ll read it.
Max: So if they’ve got the
money, and everything’s set up…
Bruce: Yeah, although I have to say that
there’s not…it’s hard to get excited about a first time filmmaker,
because they’re all jazzed and ready to go, but they don’t know
their ass from a hole in the ground. So, I have to weigh all of it.
Max: I heard a rumor that
Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert are starting a production company that will
support and help out young and burgeoning filmmakers. Are you at all
involved with that, and if so what information can you give?
Bruce: I don’t know all
that much about it. I know that they got a deal to make some movies
with a German company, uh…and that’s the best of my knowledge.
They’re gonna make some horror films, I think, so…who knows, I may
come and go. We’re pretty casual.
Max: You have stated before that the “Evil
Dead” is “not responsible” for the work you are currently receiving.
In your opinion, what is?
Here we had a little breakdown. He didn’t understand the question
exactly; I couldn’t quote the exact source (although I later found
out that it was a quote from Necronomiconifesto, on his “Everything
Evil” site, which is linked to www.bruce-campbell.com). So I had to
modify the question into something else: as if to say filmmakers
don’t look at the “Evil Dead” series and base their judgment on his
merits as an actor in those particular films.
Bruce: Um…I dunno, it works all kinds of
ways. I’ve gotten jobs because they had no idea about the “Evil
Dead” movies; they knew me from “Brisco” or “Hercules” or something
like that. And then in other cases they may know “Oh yeah, he’s that
horror guy.” It’s very specific. I just hosted a “Masters of Horror”
thing for Showtime so they specifically got me because of that; you
know, to be a host. So, some people know who I am and hire me for
that, and some people know who I am and don’t hire me because of
that. You know, it works both ways.
Max: What do you think of the label “cult?”
Bruce: The label “cult?” I
don’t have a problem, no. It just means that people are really
fervent, and really loyal, which there’s nothing wrong with that.
Cult films last forever. I’ve been in plenty of films that no one
will remember, so it’s nice to be in some movies that some people
do, and that they pass it along to the next generation…I’m meeting
kids named Ash now.
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