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XenGamers: Do you like today’s
horror movies?
Campbell: A lot of horror
movies today aren’t scary. You get the hot cast from the
WB and the hip soundtrack and they get killed off one by
one with great special effects. I like movies like The
Sixth Sense, which was a scary movie without a single
special effect. That’s brilliant.
XenGamers:
Are you a fan of special effects, which take all the
limelight during the summer movie season?
Campbell: A lot of people go to the movies to
see the special effects, I’d like to have them go and
say it was a good movie, not that the effects were cool.
I’m a big fan of Forrest Gump, which used special
effects to tell a story, and the story was always put
first. There are a lot of people out there who believe
that Gary Senise has no legs, because they digitally
removed them in the film. I’ve been in a lot of movies
where there were lots of effects and no story.
XenGamers:
What’s it like working with things that aren’t there in
movies?
Campbell: When you make a movie with
a lot of special effects, it makes the actor that much
more naked. Standing in front of a big green screen and
reacting to a 20-foot monster, which in reality is a
stand with a mark on it, you have to work hard to make
it real. If you think it’s false, so will the audience.
XenGamers: You seem to do a lot of horror and
fantasy movies, are you a fan of the genres?
Campbell: As an actor, I never said no to
anything. I’m always happy to be working. My first film
was a horror, and since it was successful, I ended up
doing a lot of horror movies. I also did some sci-fi
series on TV. It ended up that most of what I’ve done
has had some sort of sci-fi, fantasy or horror element
to it.
XenGamers: Having appeared in the
summer’s biggest blockbuster, were you a fan of
superhero comics as a kid?
Campbell: I read
comics like Sad Sack, Archie and Sgt. Rock as a kid,
because they were based on reality. I could never get
into Silver Surfer and the super heroes because they
were so far-fetched. That’s why I liked Spider-Man, he
wasn’t from a planet in outer space. He’s a guy from
Queens, NY, which helped me get into the movie much
more. It was fun getting to be the guy who gives
Spider-Man his name. I’d actually done an episode of
Louis and Clark on TV, so this was my second superhero
experience.
XenGamers: Who did you want to be
when you were a kid?
Campbell: I used to
dress up as Zorro as a kid. Every kid has a fantasy
childhood, it was either that or play with GI Joes.
XenGamers: Sam Raimi and you have been
friends a long time, what was it like growing up
together?
Campbell: Sam and I took a drama
class together in high school. He’d sit behind me and
stick a pencil in my shoulder blade while I’d be
answering a question, slowly applying pressure while I
spoke. I used to babysit Ted Raimi all the time. I used
to take him to cello lessons. He still owes me $10 from
one time that I took him to the Dairy Queen. I ate at
the Raimi’s house all the time. As kids, we’d make Super
8 movies. Sam loved magic tricks, and since the director
is the ultimate magician, he’d direct. I’d star in the
films, since I was taller than Sam, but he’d also act in
them.
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