Max: Is there anyone you
haven’t had the chance to work with, but would like to?
Bruce: I don’t really play
that game. You try and make the best out of your current situation.
You know, because you might meet a guy who turns out to be the best
guy you’ve worked with. They don’t have to be some name brand
person. I’ve met a lot of lower level actors and directors who were
terrific; that are as good as any other A level director or actor,
they just don’t get the recognition. So I’m happy working with
anybody who wants to show up to play the game and has a clue.
Max: Are there any
projects besides “Man With the Screaming Brain” that you wanted to
do, but for whatever reason never happened?
Bruce: Yeah, I have a couple more. But
those are hard to talk about because until they come together it’s
all just an actor spewing bullshit. You’ll know; it’ll be on my
website when it happens. There’s a lot of stuff I’m trying to do:
I’m trying to hook up with more independently financed low budget
companies that can make these independent movies. I wanna just make
independent movies.
Max:
What are your plans for the future? Any directorial aspirations?
Bruce: We’ll see, yeah. I
got a couple of things I wanna do, maybe next year.
Max: Is this at all how you expected your
life would be when you started your career?
Bruce: You never know. We wanted to be able
to make “The Evil Dead” movie and sell it, and get our investors
their money back. My parents invested-I wanted them to get their
money back. Fortunately, they’re all made 10-15 times their money
back.
At last I reached the end of my questions…except for one. This one I
almost dreaded asking, because my mother forced me to write it down,
but I went ahead anyway…
Max: Ever have any interns?
Bruce
laughed, and said that yes, sometimes he did, but he sort of doesn’t
all that much anymore because he forgets how to do the stuff he
hires his interns for. But, he also said it worked on a
project-by-project basis.
But there was one last unresolved
issue…something that was burning a hole in the back of my
brain…something I felt I’d never forgive myself for if I didn’t ask
it…
“One last request…can I have your autograph?”
“Sure…”
He signed my movie still “To Max-Stay
Groovy!”
Afterward I asked him how I did. He said I did
fine, but SOME journalists tended to be on the edge of their seats,
waiting to ask the next question, and should listen a little more.
Well, at least he put it nicely…
I think that about wraps it
up. Bruce Campbell is an ordinary guy but with an extraordinary job
and sense of humor. He’s the type of guy who people naturally flock
to:
he’s cool, and he isn’t trying. I’m just grateful for
the opportunity to have had a conversation with the man…the myth…the
legend…Bruce Campbell.
Special thanks to Kain and Deadites
Online for their help in publishing this article.
Max Clark
September 18th, 2002
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