March 13, 2026

Bill Moseley & Lin Shaye are Scared to Death; Slanted Cast talk Body Horror & Satire

Bill Moseley & Lin Shaye are Scared to Death; Slanted Cast talk Body Horror & Satire
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In this episode of  Pop Culture Weekly, we’re diving into two very different  but equally fascinating  corners of pop culture: sharp social body horror satire and good old-fashioned horror mayhem as Kyle McMahon is joined by Scared to Death horror legends Lin Shaye and Bill Moseley and Slanted's writer / director Amy Wang and stars Shirley Chen, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan & Amelie Zilber. 

First up, Kyle sits down with the stars and creators of the bold new film Slanted. Joining him are Maitreyi Ramakrishnan (Never Have I Ever), Amelie Zilber, Shirley Chen, and writer/director Amy Wang. They talk about how the film uses biting satire to explore identity, race, and the kinds of uncomfortable conversations that the best art refuses to avoid.

Then we head straight into horror territory with two absolute legends. Bill Moseley (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, House of 1000 Corpses) and the incomparable Lin Shaye (Insidious, Kingpin) join  to talk about their new horror-comedy Scared to Death. They get into their incredible careers, why audiences can’t get enough of monsters and the emotional truth that makes a great horror movie stick with you long after the credits roll.

It’s thoughtful, funny, a little creepy and  there are definitely a few fanboy moments along the way.



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In this episode of Pop Culture Weekly, I talk with

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the stars of Slanted, end legendary horror icons, Bill Moseley

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and Lynn Shay.

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Let's go.

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Welcome to pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon from iHeartRadio

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your pop culture news, views, reviews and celebrity interviews on

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all the movies, TV music and pop culture UKRABE Weekly.

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Here's Kyle McMahon.

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Na no no NT.

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Hello, and welcome to pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon.

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I of course am Kyle McMahon, and this is the

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show where we celebrate pop culture, question our life choices,

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and occasionally realize that the people who terrify us on

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screen could actually be some of the nicest humans alive

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off screen. Today's episode is a fun one. We're talking

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about the new film Slanted, which blends sharp storytelling, identity satire,

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and characters who are see enough to.

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Feel very real.

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And we also talk with two legendary horror icons that

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star in the new horror film Scared to Death And honestly,

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it's a pretty honest warning label. So yeah, a little

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thoughtful storytelling, a little horror, and a lot of great conversations.

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Let's jump right into it. Our first guest today star

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in the new film Slanted. Joining me are my Tray,

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Rama Krishnan, who many of you know from Never Have

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I Ever, and Emuali Zilber.

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And if you've seen my Tray's.

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Work before, you already know she has this incredible ability

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to balance humor and emotional honesty in a way that

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feels very real. In Slanted, she and amily help bring

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to life a story that's funny, sharp, horrifying and uncomfortable

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in the best way, and it's very much about figureguring

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out who you are in a world that constantly tries

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to label you. First, the film follows a high school

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senior navigating identity, belonging, and social pressures in a sharp, satirical,

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horror ish story about race and beauty standards and the

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complicated ways we try to reinvent ourselves, which, let's be honest,

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is basically the human condition. So let's jump right into it.

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Here they are my Trey E, Rama Krishtnin, and Amalie Zilder.

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So congrats on Slanted. It really is such a great film,

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so smart, and I wonder if once, when you both

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read the script, is that something that kind of struck

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you at it, you know, is that something that you

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were like, Wow, this is bold and fresh or was

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there something else.

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Definitely bold bold script?

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Yeah, I was nervous. I was nervous reading this. I

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was like, I don't know if this is for me.

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This is pretty controversial, but shout out Amy. She is

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a true filmmaker because she doesn't shy away from controversial

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and she reminded me as an actor that that's the

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whole point. That's why you make movies. Controversial movies start conversation.

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So yeah, but it's definitely bold from top first place

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to last.

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And how about for.

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You, Emily?

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I mean same. When I read the script, I was

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hesitant at first. It's scary and pretty daunting to agree

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to play a white nationalist essentially, but ultimately my greatest

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asset in this film is being able to be so

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forward in my cruelty and that being a driver for

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all of the choices that Joan makes, which ultimately is

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the conversation and that this film starts. So my personal

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feelings aside, I was like, this is a true piece

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of art, and Amy is, like my Terrey said, a

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true filmmaker. And it doesn't matter how I feel about

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this character. If anything, the fact that I'm having such

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a strong emotional reaction means that this film needs to

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be made and it would be my privilege to be

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a part of it.

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I love that.

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I was just talking with Amy and I said the

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same thing, like, great art is going to make some

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people uncomfortable, and that's okay because that means it's doing something.

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And I think what this film does is kind of

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opens many of our eyes, you know, to things I

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know that I wouldn't have experienced otherwise, you know what

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I mean totally.

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Yeah, It's supposed to make you feel uncomfortable, because art

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should make you feel, you know, it doesn't always have

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to be positive, you know. And also uncomfortability challenges growth.

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So I love that. Do you think, and this is

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to both of you, do you think that, you know,

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in a social media world where everyone kind of curates

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their this particular life, do you think we've made it

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harder to just kind of exist as we are today?

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lent itself to all of us being very intentional about

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how we represent ourselves online. We know that in a way,

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sort of dystopian like relate has a dystopian relationship to

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our identities and how we present ourselves, and whether it

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be as small as like wearing a certain outfit to

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a real life dinner so you can get a photo

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in it for your Instagram, or like curating how you

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talk to like if you're an influencer, how you talk

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to people, how you interact with people so that people

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say good things about you, like whether not that's true

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to who you are. So I do think that there's

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a there's a there's a really difficult ability to be

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fully authentic in a world where you are constantly trying

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to manipulate how others perceive you.

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How about for you, Madre.

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is true. There's just so much like living your life

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in service to your gram, you know, to your any

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insert social media platform here. But I also think I

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was having like a bunch of conversations with my pals

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recently about how social media also makes you just crazily accessible,

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you know, whether you're an influencer, a celebrity, or you

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just have it even for your personal reasons. Just we've

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never been more accessible as a society because of our

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smartphones and the Internet, and because of that, we're always

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constantly checking in on who needs us, who's trying to

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contact us at all times that we don't have any time.

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I'm for ourselves and downtime to just sit chill and

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be intentional with who we're trying to hang out with,

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having that intentional hangout with that friend that you want

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to build that meaningful relationship with beyond just oh I

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send them memes every so often and now we're besties.

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It's like, that's a crazy definition of friendship. And yeah,

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just realizing that because we don't have that time anymore,

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we're not critically thinking nearly as much as we should,

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especially nowadays because being told what to think via the Internet,

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via this overwhelming, excessive like access access to ourselves and

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to others at all times around the clock.

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You know, yes, I completely agree. I could talk to

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both of you about this topic and all all of

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the themes in the film all day. But I appreciate

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both of you. I can't wait for everybody to see Slanted.

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Thank you, Thank you, have a great day. Hi Rama

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Krishnan and Amalie zilber My thanks to them, they are

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both fantastic and Slanted, and the film really does manage

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to be funny and thoughtful and scary and really uncomfortable

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enough to make you think, but in a good way.

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And you know that's usually a sign it's doing something right.

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And of course every great film also has a creative

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brain behind it. So joining me now are the people

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who helped bring Slanted to life. Any Wang is the

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film's writer and director, and I also along with her

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have Shirley Chen, who delivers one of the film's standout performances.

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We talk about where the idea for the film came from,

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the themes behind the story, and what they hope that

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audiences take away from it, because, as you know, satire

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can be very tricky, I would say, and you want

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people laughing but also thinking harder about why they're laughing. Right,

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So let's jump right into it. Here they are, Amy

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Wang and Shirley Check. Congrats on the film. It really

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is so smart and kind of eye opening in many ways.

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This question is for both of you as you're you know,

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as you're reading the script once it's finished, which of

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course you wrote it, you know, was there a moment

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where you were like, Wow, this is uncomfortable but necessary.

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You know what I mean. This is going to make

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some people feel.

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A little uncomfortable and that's all right. Was there a

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moment reading the script and was there a moment after

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you wrote the script?

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even before I started writing the script, just a concept itself.

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I knew it was going to be.

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Challenging and you know, provocative, and that's one of my

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favorite things. Like I love, you know, people like Nathan

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Field of who just pushed boundaries and really you know,

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confront people because I feel like that's how people change, right, And.

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It was a conversation, So that was definitely always in

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the back of my mind.

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But I you know, I've done, as Shirley knows, I've

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done a couple of I want to say, like controversial

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short films, but I like to tackle difficult topics because

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I like to make people feel uncomfortable.

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And so this just felt like, Okay, this feels right.

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This is and then at the core of it's so

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rooted in my personal experience, so it just you know,

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I was protected by that because it was so authentic.

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I think, to my life, Wow, and how about for

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you surely once you read it.

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huge part of what makes us fun is that the

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movie pokes fun at being uncomfortable, whether that's making the

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audience uncomfortable watching something or the fact that John is

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so uncomfortable in her skin. Right, And there's so many

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moments it feel quite honest, Like I would say maybe

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the nail salon scene. I remember reading that and being like,

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oh my gosh, like that just gives me the hebgbs

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of like being in the scenario. And then you know,

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then you get this wonderful experience of watching it come out.

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And I think one of my favorite moments is like

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the trailer opening on like have you ever suffered the

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injustices of being a person of color?

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And then it cuts to me, It just hard cuts to.

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My face, and like it's just awesome. Right, There's so

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much that's like just fun about it. It gets to

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poke fun at these very real and serious topics, and

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it's like, at the end of the day, we can

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also just laugh at how ridiculous it all is.

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You know.

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Yeah, yeah, And I think, you know, great art does that,

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in my opinion, you know, kind of as you said, Amy,

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you know, great art for me anyway, kind of opens

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me up to worlds that I may not have known,

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or thinking that I may have known, or thinking that

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I have that I shouldn't be thinking, and something changes

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my mind about it, you know. To me, that's what

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great art does.

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So I wonder for both of you.

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You know, the story tackles identity in a way that

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is smart and is very calculated. And I don't mean

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that in a negative way at all. I mean it's

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very thought out and how it's done. Were you ever nervous,

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you know, to kind of show up in that way, surely?

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I mean I think it's nerve wracking to admit to

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a bunch of people like, hey, maybe I don't like

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myself or I don't like parts of myself or parts

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of my culture.

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Right.

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In a large way, this is a movie that speaks

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to the Asian American community, and like, I think it's

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terrifying to think, oh my gosh, am I telling people

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that look like me that it's not okay to look

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like me? Right, that's like a fear, right, But ultimately

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that's not the message of this movie. It's saying, like

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you learn who you are. By learning who you're not,

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you get to and sometimes you kind of like have

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to learn the hard way, right. We hope that we

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don't have to, But there's something really cathartic and empowering

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about being honest about sometimes you don't always like yourself.

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And it doesn't explicitly have to be story limited to race.

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I think it's it's necessary, a.

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Necessary conversation absolutely, and Amy finally, you know, writing it,

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did you feel nervous kind of being so authentic him

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putting so much of yourself, your own identity, your own

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experiences into something that's going to be going out to

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the world, or was it freeing?

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and even now, like we have a you know, big

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screening coming up tonight at.

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Vidiots, and.

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You know, there's always the fear of rejection, the fear

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of you know, people not enjoying the film as much

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as you know I want them to. But at the

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end of the day, you know, I remind myself this

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is I mean, even The Godfather, you know, people hate

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the Godfather.

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People hate the Matrix, you know, not saying.

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but I think everyone is going to take what they

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want from it. What has been really incredible is every

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time we have had screenings, you know, overseas and America,

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the response afterwards has been so incredible. And like I've

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had groups of like teenage girls come up to me

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afterwards and they went to you know, see it together,

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like a group of twenty of them, and they'll come

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and say, like, oh my god, you know, that's exactly

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what happened to us, you know, last.

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Week, and just still feeling.

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I don't know, just that connection, you know, with with

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all sorts of people. It's been really special. But it's

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I mean it's yeah, it's hard putting so much of

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yourself onto the screen, but but definitely also cathartic for sure,

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and that's something I don't think I'll ever stop doing.

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Well. I think it plays a beautif.

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I can't wait for everybody to see it. Thank you

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both for being so authentic, and thank you for speaking

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Thank you.

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Amy Wang and Shirley Chin.

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Go see Slanted.

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It really is smart, funny, thoughtful, scary, and we'll have.

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You thinking long after you've left the theater. I'll tell

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All right, we're gonna take a quick break to pay

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the bills, but in sixty seconds when we come back,

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we're heading further into horror territory as I sit down

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with Bill Mosley, man who was spent decades terrifying audiences

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in some of the most beloved horror films ever made,

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and now he's back with a new movie called Scared

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to Death.

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I'll see you in sixty all right, welcome back to

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Pop Culture Weekly. I'm Kyle McMahon, and if you're a

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horror fan, which you are, the next part of the

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show is going to make you even happier. So my

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next guest is someone whose name is basically synonymous with horror.

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Bill Moseley has delivered some of the most memorable performances

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in genre history, from Texas Chainsaw Massacre two to the

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House of a Thousand Corpses and The Devil's Rejects. He's

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one of those actors who just walks on screen and

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us horror fans like immediately know that we're in for

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something good. And now he's back in a new film

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called Scared to Death. Scared to Death revolves around a

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production assistant who's eager to advance as a director in

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Hollywood and then proposes to his boss played by Lynn Shay,

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that the crew and actors of that horror film should

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experience a real life seance. And then they go to

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this seventy year old abandoned children's shelter for research, and

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you can imagine what happens. It's really really great. So

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we talk about obviously Scared to Death, we talk about

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his incredible career, the joys of working in horror, and

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what audiences can expect here. He is Bill Mosley.

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I see him. Man, you look like you're a bundled

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out for winter.

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I am.

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It's we got a blizzard here over overnight, so I'm

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not happy.

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I'm not a blizzard type of guy.

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Where are you.

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I'm in Delaware, all right, Yeah?

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Yeah, so like.

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Philly, d C. Baltimore kind of in the middle of

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all that.

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So, uh, thanks coming to Pittsburgh on Thursday?

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Oh are you?

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Yeah?

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Oh? Okay for a con?

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Yeah yeah, horror realm con.

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Oh cool, Okay.

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I went to my first con last month called monster.

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Mania, and uh, yeah it was, yes, yeah, it was

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really great, awesome.

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So let me ask you.

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I obviously want to talk about Scared to Death, which

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I love, but I want to go back for a

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moment if we can. You have played some of the

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most memorable characters in horror, somebody from like chop Top

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to Otis, Driftwood to Felix.

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I love.

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What as Have these been conscious choices for you or

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have you kind of just you know, read this gone

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script by script or is there a certain type of

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role you look for.

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It's actually the roles look for me, and I'm very appreciated,

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appreciative of that, you know, with with Texas Chainsaw, with

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chop Top, I had made I was so freaked out

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by the original Texas Chainsaw massacre that I made a

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short film back in like nineteen eighty four, I guess

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called the Texas Chainsaw Manicure and I five minutes shot

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in Staten Island and a beauty parlor, and I played

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the hitchhiker in that. And a friend of mine showed

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that five minutes short to Toby Hooper, who directed, you know,

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the original Chainsaw, and he liked my performance so much

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as the Hitchhiker.

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He hired me as chop Top and.

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That's how I got into the business. And the special

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effects makeup guy in Chainsaw Too is Tom Savini and

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Tom Savini And then got the job of directing the

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remake of Night of the Living Dead and brought me

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along as Johnny you know. So it's just so funny

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how that all works. And then meeting Rob Zombie years later,

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I think it was ninety October of ninety nine, I

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am ced a little horror award show here in La

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at the Universal Studios and I was made up as

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chop Top and with a tuxedo, and I handed a

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horror award to Rob Zombie, who freaked out because he

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was a big chop Top fan. And a month later

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he called me up and offered me the part of

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Otis Thriftwood and House of a Thousand Courses.

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Wow, it's just so funny how it kind of works.

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I mean, I didn't audition for any of those, you know,

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It's just funny how they just kind of reach out

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and and pull you when when the time's right.

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I love that.

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All you got to do is say yes.

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I love that too.

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All you got to do is say yes.

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Is there a role that you've done that you feel

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like people have misunderstood?

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No, not really, Okay.

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You you you know, I think with horror.

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Understood like they didn't get where I was coming from,

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or misunderstood like it should have been they should have

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you know, clapped louder.

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Yes, you know, bo, Yes to both.

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I feel like a lot of times horror doesn't really

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get it to due as a true art form, and

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oftentimes I found some things that may not have landed

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upon their release. Twenty years later, you have people like me,

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you know, meticulously rewatching them and like, oh my god,

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you know, and then it's a buzz online and all

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that kind of thing. I didn't know if there was

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anything like that in your career.

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Yeah, there's a lot of them.

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I've done a lot of work, and a lot of

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it probably falls into that category.

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You know.

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Just last night I was watching for some reason, I

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was watching an old movie I did which I never

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really watched all the way through, called Exit Humanity civil

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war zombie movie, and I play an evil Confederate general. Also,

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I did a movie a couple of years right before

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the start of COVID. I did a movie called Prisoners

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of the ghost.

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Land, Yes, with Nicholas Cage, right.

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Nicholas Cage and played the governor, and that movie got

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it started off getting love because it was a Sun

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Dance selection, but unfortunately it was the year of COVID,

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so all of that was done remotely, so that was

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kind of sad, but you know, it never really took off.

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Good old.

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The director is a Japanese director named Sion Sono, and

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he did some amazing He has done some amazing movies.

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I think especially Cold Fish is my favorite.

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There's a movie called Tag. There's just a bunch.

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Of his stuff, which is which are really really cool movies.

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So Prisoners of the ghost Land, Exit Humanity. Yeah, there's

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there's been a bunch. But I'm just really glad that,

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you know, for the rob Zombie trilogy, Glad for a

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chop top, glad for you know, Repo the Genetic Opera

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where we me and Ogre sing and dance our way

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through a lot of mischief and mayhem.

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That's a great one with Paris Hilton.

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With Paris Hilton.

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Yeah, after decades.

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Of doing this, you know, being in the horror world

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specially has there what was the moment for you that

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was like, you know, you've become one of those people

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that have have become an icon, and especially in this genre.

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Was there a moment that that hit you?

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Not really, No, okay, I mean in other words, I

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don't think of myself that objectively.

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I'm just glad to get the work.

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And I'm glad because there's you know, no two parts

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are the same, No two movies are the same, No

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two experiences are and so it's always you know, it's

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a challenge. You know, every job is a challenge. You know,

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can I memorize those lines? You know, I'm i gonna

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you know, hitting my marks and doing that kind of

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stuff is pretty old hat.

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So I'm comfortable with doing that.

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I'm comfortable on a set like all the different people

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with their wires and their lights and their cameras and

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makeup and you know, touching me with little powder puffs

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all that stuff. If I get I can stay in character.

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But it's always a different experience, and I think that's

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really the most fun of it. Oh, it's not Tedium

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by any stretch, because it's not the same thing.

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Ever, Why do you think that audiences, you know, embrace monsters.

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Well, life is scary. I think that's really what it

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comes down to. And I think you know horror movies,

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you know, or you know Stephen King books, I mean

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horror movies. Basically that's what is it an hour and

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a half, so it's like ninety to one hundred minutes.

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There's usually traditionally the screenplay is, you know, three acts

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beginning middle in an end. You know, you start getting

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scared originally, and then you go through the story and

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that at the very end there's some kind of a climax,

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there's a resolution, and you know that's ninety minutes. Got

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a box of popcorn, you know, if you're in a

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movie theater, which you know most people aren't anymore, but

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you know, it's basically it's very tidy, and you usually,

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you know, for the most part, there's a resolution or like,

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you know, something that keeps you thinking, but it's uh,

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you know, it makes life a little more manageable instead

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of just you know, the the terror of uncertainty. You know,

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it could be a wonderful day. You're out with your

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best friend and all of a sudden, you know, a

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piano falls out of a plane and you know, crushes

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you both. Who knows or you know that that you

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know that you know, visit to the doctor, you get

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a bad report or you know, whatever it is. And

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with a horror movie, at least you know you get

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you know, it's a stylized version of it and something

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that you can control a little bit more.

468
00:25:50.279 --> 00:25:52.000
Say it's safe.

469
00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:53.400
Yeah, so.

470
00:25:54.960 --> 00:25:59.000
Scared to death this. I love this film. It's so fun.

471
00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:01.200
You know, I'm a hugebviously huge horror fan.

472
00:26:01.480 --> 00:26:06.119
And and it walks a very you know, fun line

473
00:26:06.200 --> 00:26:08.119
between kind of comedy and horror.

474
00:26:08.200 --> 00:26:10.799
Reminds me a lot of Sam Raimie's work.

475
00:26:11.079 --> 00:26:14.559
And what drew what drew it to you? What drew

476
00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:15.640
you to it?

477
00:26:17.119 --> 00:26:21.759
Well, I mean I was available, So that's always wortant.

478
00:26:22.519 --> 00:26:23.799
It's it was.

479
00:26:23.880 --> 00:26:27.960
It was sag and fully funded. That's always important. And

480
00:26:28.279 --> 00:26:31.720
first and foremost I got to say was the fact

481
00:26:31.759 --> 00:26:34.599
that Lynn Shay was a part of it. And I've

482
00:26:34.640 --> 00:26:36.960
worked with Lynn on a couple of movies. I've worked

483
00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:41.000
rather on two thousand and one Maniac's Field of Screams

484
00:26:41.240 --> 00:26:45.720
and also a movie we did in New Orleans directed

485
00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:50.880
by Ashley Hamilton called Gothic Harvest. And I've known Lynn

486
00:26:51.039 --> 00:26:55.720
either through the conventions or just you know, socially for

487
00:26:55.880 --> 00:26:59.599
many years, and so to have her attached to Scared

488
00:26:59.640 --> 00:27:00.680
to Death was it.

489
00:27:00.599 --> 00:27:03.960
Was a big plus was I'm sorry?

490
00:27:04.200 --> 00:27:07.400
Oh, in addition to you know, really a really good

491
00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:13.160
script and Paul Boyd, who's a fantastic director, So all

492
00:27:13.200 --> 00:27:16.279
of that just and the fact that it was being

493
00:27:16.319 --> 00:27:18.799
shot about, you know, twenty miles.

494
00:27:18.519 --> 00:27:20.599
From where I live. That helped too.

495
00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:23.440
So it's going to be it was like a day job,

496
00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:26.240
you know, as opposed to you know, a location.

497
00:27:27.240 --> 00:27:31.119
Did you You know, as you're reading the script, do

498
00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:35.039
you start kind of putting your own you know, how

499
00:27:35.039 --> 00:27:37.599
does that process work for you as an actor when

500
00:27:37.720 --> 00:27:40.680
you're reading this and you're deciding how to play him?

501
00:27:41.119 --> 00:27:41.400
Do you?

502
00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:44.440
Is it a like a visional visional?

503
00:27:44.599 --> 00:27:46.759
Is it a vision thing for you?

504
00:27:47.039 --> 00:27:49.200
Is it a you write down, you sit down with

505
00:27:49.240 --> 00:27:51.400
a notebook and start you know, how does.

506
00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:53.279
That process come to you?

507
00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:56.319
So you end up seeing what we see on screen?

508
00:27:57.440 --> 00:28:00.160
Well, I mean I do read the script. I sit

509
00:28:00.279 --> 00:28:03.319
in that chair you can see back there it's missing

510
00:28:03.359 --> 00:28:06.039
a cushion, but that is my that's you know, that's

511
00:28:06.039 --> 00:28:09.480
my chair where I meditate, and you know, you just

512
00:28:09.559 --> 00:28:12.400
sit there and read it. You can close your eyes

513
00:28:12.559 --> 00:28:15.599
or keep them open. You just kind of just you know,

514
00:28:15.720 --> 00:28:20.000
follow the story, get into it. And that's really what

515
00:28:20.079 --> 00:28:22.480
I do. I you know, I try to read the

516
00:28:22.519 --> 00:28:26.599
script three or four times and just you know, just

517
00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:30.119
see who the people are, see what the situation is,

518
00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:34.119
you know, see what the action is, the backstory. You know,

519
00:28:34.759 --> 00:28:37.960
just use your imagination and if you keep you know,

520
00:28:38.039 --> 00:28:40.440
if you if you use your imagination, it's like a muscle.

521
00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:44.079
And you know, I try to use mine a lot.

522
00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:47.440
It's like a workout. And you know, you just sit

523
00:28:47.480 --> 00:28:49.640
there and read that, you know, read it from you know,

524
00:28:50.039 --> 00:28:54.960
page one to page you know one hundred and Yeah,

525
00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:57.480
it starts to come you know, a little by little,

526
00:28:57.799 --> 00:29:02.119
sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly, but eventually kind of just get

527
00:29:02.119 --> 00:29:05.920
the general idea. And you know, it depends if you

528
00:29:06.079 --> 00:29:08.640
like the story. You know, if it's a good story,

529
00:29:08.799 --> 00:29:11.200
that's really what it comes down to. It doesn't have

530
00:29:11.240 --> 00:29:14.200
to be Marvel, you know. With you know, one hundred

531
00:29:14.319 --> 00:29:18.359
billion dollars worth of you know, green screen computer graphics,

532
00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:20.880
you know, you can do it for you know, as

533
00:29:20.880 --> 00:29:22.200
they say, you can do it for one hundred and

534
00:29:22.240 --> 00:29:24.759
fifty bucks and h in one of these you know

535
00:29:24.799 --> 00:29:29.000
what is that that's an iPhone with chop top on them.

536
00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:30.160
That little chop dot dekl.

537
00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:33.720
So somebody wants to say, hey, wait a minute, that's my phone.

538
00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:36.319
I go, oh yeah, well Nick late, you.

539
00:29:36.359 --> 00:29:43.720
Dogged it as you're as you're filming, as you're wrapping. Really,

540
00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:48.599
you know, do you look back and do you let

541
00:29:48.599 --> 00:29:52.119
it go until the premiere or you know, are you

542
00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:55.640
the type of actor that's kind of still thinking on

543
00:29:55.680 --> 00:29:57.119
it or are you are you ready to go to

544
00:29:57.160 --> 00:29:57.920
the next project.

545
00:29:59.480 --> 00:30:03.599
Well, you you know, there are certain obligations, professional obligations,

546
00:30:03.640 --> 00:30:07.799
like doing press for it, you know, staying in touch

547
00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:13.160
with other castmates, sometimes being supportive. There's always you know,

548
00:30:13.240 --> 00:30:16.039
the production part of it is just the middle, you know,

549
00:30:16.160 --> 00:30:18.960
talk about the three acts, and the most important act

550
00:30:19.079 --> 00:30:22.200
is post production, where you can really just you know,

551
00:30:22.279 --> 00:30:24.440
depending on what scene or what take of a scene

552
00:30:24.599 --> 00:30:27.920
and how you shoot it and how you cut it,

553
00:30:28.119 --> 00:30:30.960
you know, you can really change the movie around, you know, radically.

554
00:30:32.759 --> 00:30:35.240
So there's always that there's a d R so you

555
00:30:35.319 --> 00:30:38.039
have to you know, maybe you know the sound guy

556
00:30:38.519 --> 00:30:41.920
you know, you know, screwed up some some take and

557
00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:42.319
you have.

558
00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:43.960
To go there and you know, revoice.

559
00:30:44.279 --> 00:30:46.559
Yeah, so there's a whole lot of stuff that goes

560
00:30:46.599 --> 00:30:50.359
on after you've done shooting to support the movie. And

561
00:30:50.400 --> 00:30:53.480
then of course, you know, press is really important and

562
00:30:53.799 --> 00:30:56.839
social media, you know, it becomes this, you know, it

563
00:30:56.839 --> 00:31:02.200
becomes a big deal for me. Yeah, you know, I'm

564
00:31:02.279 --> 00:31:06.279
moving on. I just did something a couple of weeks

565
00:31:06.319 --> 00:31:11.200
ago called The Gulf of America, and I just add,

566
00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:13.200
you know, as a scene, it was pretty much a

567
00:31:13.279 --> 00:31:16.759
monologue that was just so well written and so cool.

568
00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:19.920
The story was so cool that, you know, man, I

569
00:31:20.880 --> 00:31:24.039
showed up and mercifully that was fifteen miles from you,

570
00:31:24.319 --> 00:31:28.480
so that was also helpful. But you know, I just

571
00:31:28.680 --> 00:31:31.279
like to work. I like to use my imagination. I

572
00:31:31.400 --> 00:31:35.279
like to play these different characters. And you know, it's

573
00:31:35.319 --> 00:31:36.680
a challenge.

574
00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:41.079
Fought finally for you, after everything you've done, You've done,

575
00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:43.640
you know, I think there's one hundred and fifty plus

576
00:31:43.680 --> 00:31:50.960
credits to your name and it's beautifully insane.

577
00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:54.720
What keeps you saying yes to horror?

578
00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:57.240
You know, you're at a point in your career where

579
00:31:57.440 --> 00:32:00.319
you can decide to not or to do a project act.

580
00:32:01.240 --> 00:32:03.440
What keeps Bill saying yes?

581
00:32:05.480 --> 00:32:12.640
Well, my wife lifes expensive shoes. I guess an little

582
00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:17.200
run for Roman life. Actually, you know, well, else am

583
00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:17.640
I gotta do?

584
00:32:17.799 --> 00:32:17.960
Well?

585
00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:20.960
I got to sit around and you know clip roses.

586
00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:23.519
I don't think so, you know, it's what I like

587
00:32:23.599 --> 00:32:26.359
to do and it's what fires me up. I got

588
00:32:26.359 --> 00:32:28.960
to say, just like that Gulf of America. You know,

589
00:32:29.000 --> 00:32:32.000
they say, well here's this. It's not very much you know,

590
00:32:32.160 --> 00:32:35.920
money or whatever it is, and not necessarily in that case,

591
00:32:35.960 --> 00:32:39.720
but you know, you you got to have a challenge.

592
00:32:39.799 --> 00:32:42.319
That's that's who I am. It's what I do. It's

593
00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:46.359
you know, I still take singing lessons. You know, I've

594
00:32:46.400 --> 00:32:50.720
done that for you know, singing lessons for like since

595
00:32:50.839 --> 00:32:54.720
nineteen ninety one. Wow, when I started taking singing lessons.

596
00:32:54.759 --> 00:32:57.599
I still have the same teacher. And so what is

597
00:32:57.640 --> 00:33:01.920
that nine and twenty six is thirty five fucking years?

598
00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:05.680
You know, every Tuesday I go and sing I want

599
00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:08.920
to know what love is? Or Hotel California. You know,

600
00:33:09.079 --> 00:33:11.359
so you just kind of keep in shape, keep going.

601
00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:16.680
I also go to writing class and online writing class.

602
00:33:16.920 --> 00:33:19.000
You know, you've got to keep keep the brain moving,

603
00:33:19.640 --> 00:33:23.039
keep the challenges going. And you know, the nice thing

604
00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:26.160
about the genre is the horror genre is the older

605
00:33:26.160 --> 00:33:27.359
and uglier you are.

606
00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:30.920
The more work you're offered, so I'm in my prime. Man.

607
00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:36.000
I love it. Bill. I could talk to you all day.

608
00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:39.319
You're amazing. I love the film Scared to Death. I

609
00:33:39.359 --> 00:33:40.519
can't wait for everybody to see it.

610
00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:42.440
And I'm going to be shouting from the rooftops for

611
00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:46.079
people to go see it at a theater because because

612
00:33:46.119 --> 00:33:49.359
that's to me where every film should be seen first. Yeah,

613
00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:52.920
if you can. And I appreciate you so much. Bill,

614
00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:54.640
Thank you very much for speaking with me.

615
00:33:56.119 --> 00:33:56.640
My pleasure.

616
00:33:56.720 --> 00:33:58.480
Kyle, thank you, man, Thank you, and I hope to

617
00:33:58.480 --> 00:33:59.039
see you at it.

618
00:33:59.319 --> 00:34:02.119
Steve Warm, thank you, and I hope to see you

619
00:34:02.200 --> 00:34:02.960
at a convention.

620
00:34:03.880 --> 00:34:04.440
Sounds good.

621
00:34:04.519 --> 00:34:11.239
Thanks Bill Moseley, my huge thanks to him. It's always

622
00:34:11.280 --> 00:34:14.480
fun talking with someone who's spent decades scaring audiences and

623
00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:19.199
somehow still comes across as incredibly nice and charming. And

624
00:34:19.239 --> 00:34:21.960
of course we're not done with horror yet. We're gonna

625
00:34:21.960 --> 00:34:24.480
take a quick break and when we come back, another

626
00:34:24.559 --> 00:34:27.719
horror legend joins the show. The one and only Lynn

627
00:34:27.760 --> 00:34:31.800
Sha stops by to talk about her incredible career and

628
00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:35.039
her and her role in Scared to Death. See you

629
00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:37.599
in sixty.

630
00:34:41.320 --> 00:34:43.000
Welcome back to Pop Culture Weekly.

631
00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:46.440
My next guest is someone whose career spans decades and

632
00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:50.559
dozens and dozens of films, like quite literally, and if

633
00:34:50.559 --> 00:34:53.360
you're a horror fan, you know her. Lynn Shay has

634
00:34:53.400 --> 00:34:57.480
appeared in everything from cult classics to major horror franchises,

635
00:34:57.760 --> 00:35:02.639
including her unforgettable performances in the Insidious series. She's one

636
00:35:02.639 --> 00:35:04.519
of those actors who can walk into a scene and

637
00:35:04.639 --> 00:35:09.400
instantly make that scene better or scarier. And now she's

638
00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:12.840
starring in Scared to Death along with Bill Moseley. So

639
00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:16.079
she is joining me to talk about her career, the film,

640
00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:18.559
and why horror continues to be one of the most

641
00:35:18.599 --> 00:35:28.000
exciting genres out there. Here she is, Lynn Shay.

642
00:35:26.079 --> 00:35:29.119
Thank you for having me. You know it's fun to

643
00:35:29.159 --> 00:35:32.199
discuss everything and hear your perspective so.

644
00:35:33.000 --> 00:35:36.719
Well, thank you. I absolutely love Scared to Death and

645
00:35:36.800 --> 00:35:38.280
I want to get into that. But if we could

646
00:35:38.320 --> 00:35:42.639
go back for a moment, if that's okay. You have

647
00:35:43.039 --> 00:35:48.280
had an amazing career so far. I think your first film,

648
00:35:48.280 --> 00:35:50.880
and please, Lynn Shay, forgive me for saying this, but

649
00:35:50.920 --> 00:35:53.840
I think it was nineteen seventy five Hester Street, and

650
00:35:53.880 --> 00:35:56.039
I believe your role was horror.

651
00:35:56.679 --> 00:36:00.960
Yeah, horror, Okay, horror. I was horror, and I had

652
00:36:01.199 --> 00:36:06.039
I think one line and Joan micklenn Silver, who was

653
00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:08.400
a very an innovator. She was there were no women

654
00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:12.480
making movies at that time, and she came up with

655
00:36:12.519 --> 00:36:15.159
this one of Carol Caine and Stephen Keats. It's still

656
00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:18.360
a true classic. And yeah, it was my first, my

657
00:36:18.440 --> 00:36:21.280
first film role, and my mother. I've told this story.

658
00:36:21.480 --> 00:36:24.679
You probably heard it. I was so excited to have

659
00:36:25.079 --> 00:36:26.960
to be in a movie. I mean I was still

660
00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:29.679
a I was still a young actress trying to get

661
00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:32.039
my you know, get my first role here and there.

662
00:36:32.079 --> 00:36:35.519
I was doing mostly theater and I got cast as

663
00:36:35.599 --> 00:36:39.679
this is this prostitute. And so we were in the

664
00:36:39.679 --> 00:36:42.320
theater and I went with my mom and at the

665
00:36:42.440 --> 00:36:46.239
when the credits rolled, it said Lynn Shay horror. And

666
00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:47.960
my mother got up and threw up.

667
00:36:48.559 --> 00:36:50.559
Oh no, he.

668
00:36:50.679 --> 00:36:53.639
Started walking out of the theater and actually just threw

669
00:36:53.800 --> 00:36:58.679
up right the ladies. It was very embarrassing. But that

670
00:36:58.840 --> 00:37:03.760
was my like, my anointing into the film industry.

671
00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:07.679
It's a great story, though, And when you look back

672
00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:12.360
at that that first role to today, did that girl

673
00:37:12.559 --> 00:37:14.039
ever imagine all of this?

674
00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:20.920
No? No, I never imagine movies, even because I was

675
00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:25.880
a theater actress and I'd always done plays and kind

676
00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:28.960
of worked my way up in New York. I went

677
00:37:29.079 --> 00:37:32.159
to Columbia. It was in their theater department. I got

678
00:37:32.159 --> 00:37:35.880
a master's degree from Columbia and theater and it was

679
00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:39.679
a wonderful place to be because this was the seventies,

680
00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:43.400
and it was the American Place Theater and Lincoln Center

681
00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:49.360
and Playwrights Horizons and everywhere you could think of Manhattan

682
00:37:49.400 --> 00:37:52.360
Theater Club. All these theaters which then became very big

683
00:37:52.440 --> 00:37:55.920
theaters were all off off Broadway theaters. And I never

684
00:37:56.119 --> 00:37:58.639
I was always working. I was doing a reading, I

685
00:37:58.679 --> 00:38:00.280
was doing another play, I was going to do this,

686
00:38:00.360 --> 00:38:03.199
I was into a scene. I was never stopping. But

687
00:38:03.239 --> 00:38:05.599
I had no idea about being in movies at all.

688
00:38:05.639 --> 00:38:09.320
I didn't really know very much about it and had

689
00:38:09.320 --> 00:38:12.400
some very early good experiences. Walter Hill cast me and

690
00:38:12.519 --> 00:38:15.400
Long Riders, which was one of my I also had

691
00:38:15.400 --> 00:38:18.440
one line. I was very big on having one line.

692
00:38:19.960 --> 00:38:22.760
But I'm grateful. I mean, you know, everything leads to

693
00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:26.159
other things, and you always just to say, always do

694
00:38:26.239 --> 00:38:28.639
the best you can. Ask questions when you don't know

695
00:38:28.719 --> 00:38:31.719
the answers, and say thank you. Those are all very

696
00:38:31.719 --> 00:38:34.480
important things to get your film career going.

697
00:38:35.079 --> 00:38:35.760
I love that.

698
00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:39.480
And you know, you in a lot of ways, you

699
00:38:39.559 --> 00:38:42.800
got your bigger break later on in your life. What

700
00:38:42.920 --> 00:38:46.400
did that teach you or what does that say about

701
00:38:46.599 --> 00:38:48.719
timing for you?

702
00:38:48.719 --> 00:38:51.760
You know, I don't even think about that part of

703
00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:54.800
it so much. I just I always wanted to get

704
00:38:54.800 --> 00:38:57.159
the job. That was just I didn't think about this

705
00:38:57.239 --> 00:38:59.199
job would lead to another job, and if I do

706
00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:01.920
that job, then that job is good. I never even thought.

707
00:39:01.960 --> 00:39:04.280
I was always moment to moment, you know. I mean,

708
00:39:04.320 --> 00:39:07.960
I was so excited to get cast in anything, and

709
00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:11.039
and really love I loved, I love I still love.

710
00:39:11.119 --> 00:39:18.159
I love acting. It's really an incredibly interesting journey into

711
00:39:18.199 --> 00:39:21.400
other people's hearts and minds, you know, and and yet

712
00:39:21.679 --> 00:39:23.760
it's created by your own heart and mind. I mean,

713
00:39:23.840 --> 00:39:29.679
it's a really fantastic experience. And so I didn't have

714
00:39:29.760 --> 00:39:32.480
any idea, you know, really, I when I was a

715
00:39:32.519 --> 00:39:35.679
little girl, I that's how I entertained myself because we

716
00:39:35.719 --> 00:39:37.880
didn't have a lot of kids in the neighborhood. So

717
00:39:38.079 --> 00:39:40.679
my mom would give me a big box with ribbons

718
00:39:40.760 --> 00:39:43.320
and crans in it, and then I would take all

719
00:39:43.320 --> 00:39:45.480
my clothes out of my closet, and with my stuffed

720
00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:48.519
animals and my dolls, I would make up plays in

721
00:39:48.519 --> 00:39:51.480
front of the mirror and I would write stories and

722
00:39:51.519 --> 00:39:53.840
with my crams, and I would show them to the

723
00:39:53.880 --> 00:39:56.880
bear on the couch and then to the you know,

724
00:39:56.960 --> 00:39:59.400
to the stuff dog that I slept with, and it

725
00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:03.199
was like I was I was nurtured. My creativity was nurtured.

726
00:40:03.800 --> 00:40:06.599
Every kid. All I can say is, anybody who's got

727
00:40:06.679 --> 00:40:11.280
kids out there, take their take this away from them, please,

728
00:40:12.079 --> 00:40:15.440
because you're short circuiting their own imagination. And I am

729
00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:19.119
so grateful that my I would mind was nurtured. And

730
00:40:19.159 --> 00:40:22.679
look what happened. It like worked, Yeah, yeah, did I

731
00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:24.280
actually get paid to do what I do?

732
00:40:24.920 --> 00:40:25.039
Right?

733
00:40:25.360 --> 00:40:25.880
That much?

734
00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:31.000
But oh, Ben, you know, but nevertheless.

735
00:40:31.079 --> 00:40:35.320
You have found a you know, you've become a horror legend.

736
00:40:35.559 --> 00:40:38.679
You know you are a v I would say, scream

737
00:40:38.800 --> 00:40:43.119
queen in so many ways. Do you feel you kind

738
00:40:43.199 --> 00:40:47.119
of sought out that at a certain point or did

739
00:40:47.159 --> 00:40:48.400
horror kind of find you?

740
00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:51.559
I think horror kind of found me in a way

741
00:40:51.599 --> 00:40:57.199
because I never really differentiated, you know, a character's character.

742
00:40:57.599 --> 00:40:59.800
If you're in a terrible situation and try to kill

743
00:40:59.840 --> 00:41:02.840
some buddy. That's just part of as part of your character.

744
00:41:03.360 --> 00:41:05.000
And you know, if you're sitting at a dining room

745
00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:09.199
table and talking about you know, your cup Scout meeting

746
00:41:09.239 --> 00:41:11.480
you just were at with your kid or whatever. So

747
00:41:11.679 --> 00:41:14.519
it's really I don't really make the differentiation so much.

748
00:41:14.559 --> 00:41:18.800
It's always the story comes first. What is the story?

749
00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:23.039
And even your character doesn't come first, because your character

750
00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:25.840
has to support the tale you're telling and the story

751
00:41:26.239 --> 00:41:28.679
and then make it even heighten it. But you've got

752
00:41:28.719 --> 00:41:32.320
to start with the material, that's all. That's always very important,

753
00:41:33.599 --> 00:41:35.679
and you have to be able to justify who your

754
00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:39.079
character is within that material. And I mean that's the

755
00:41:39.159 --> 00:41:41.800
only way. The way I kind of discovered working was

756
00:41:42.039 --> 00:41:44.840
the most important way, because if you just bring in

757
00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:48.960
random stuff that doesn't fit anywhere, even if it's wonderful,

758
00:41:49.599 --> 00:41:52.280
you know, then you're sort of solo, and that is

759
00:41:52.320 --> 00:41:55.840
not usually your your role in a film. You want

760
00:41:55.880 --> 00:42:01.480
to be support the story and other characters. So I

761
00:42:01.599 --> 00:42:03.519
just I kind of just like it all. I mean,

762
00:42:03.559 --> 00:42:07.199
I you know, I love being able to create ideas

763
00:42:07.239 --> 00:42:10.920
and have them support other people's ideas.

764
00:42:11.639 --> 00:42:14.400
And clearly it's worked, and you know, I think one

765
00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:16.880
of the things that so many people I know, I do,

766
00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:21.119
I love that you do in your work is you

767
00:42:21.199 --> 00:42:24.079
kind of elevate it. So in other words, you know,

768
00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:28.519
I feel like unfairly horror tends to get kind of

769
00:42:28.519 --> 00:42:32.480
the short end of the stick in regards to maybe

770
00:42:32.519 --> 00:42:36.880
critics or or that sort of thing where people, you know,

771
00:42:36.920 --> 00:42:40.119
a certain section of people feel it's very throwaway.

772
00:42:40.159 --> 00:42:42.280
And I think you prove that.

773
00:42:42.360 --> 00:42:46.760
You know, you can bring incredible acting to to any project.

774
00:42:46.840 --> 00:42:50.400
You know, Oh, I agree hundred percent. You know, you

775
00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:52.559
still got to do. The important thing is to do

776
00:42:52.599 --> 00:42:55.199
the work. They're really that rule is there's really no

777
00:42:55.320 --> 00:42:59.480
small parts. There's only small actors. I mean, it's really true.

778
00:42:59.599 --> 00:43:02.639
I mean there's other many other examples of that, but

779
00:43:03.719 --> 00:43:05.960
I mean part of the fun for me is it's

780
00:43:06.039 --> 00:43:08.800
not about the size of the role. It's really about

781
00:43:09.480 --> 00:43:11.960
what can you contribute. You know, when I think about

782
00:43:12.039 --> 00:43:14.440
Kingpin in particular, which was one of my all time

783
00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:17.920
favorite and I success stories in a way, may I say,

784
00:43:18.199 --> 00:43:19.679
because they didn't want to see me for that and

785
00:43:19.719 --> 00:43:21.239
I had to fight for it and fight for it

786
00:43:21.559 --> 00:43:23.920
and it was a very short little scene with you know,

787
00:43:24.039 --> 00:43:26.920
I was grateful to work with Woody Harrelson, who's still

788
00:43:26.960 --> 00:43:29.760
to this day is yes, yes, yes, he's He's just

789
00:43:30.199 --> 00:43:32.800
he was the best, the best ever, one of my

790
00:43:32.840 --> 00:43:39.239
favorite seeing partners ever. But that it's it doesn't matter,

791
00:43:39.400 --> 00:43:41.440
it doesn't matter. It's like what you bring is what

792
00:43:41.480 --> 00:43:45.559
people are going to remember. And I've been really grateful

793
00:43:45.639 --> 00:43:51.760
that that's how I feel and think because I had

794
00:43:51.800 --> 00:43:54.960
one line in some TV thing I can't even Marshall

795
00:43:55.440 --> 00:43:58.760
Hirshkabez was the producer. He was a big producer in

796
00:43:58.920 --> 00:44:01.800
the sixties or so and these it is the seventies

797
00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:05.239
I think, and it was a big show on TV.

798
00:44:05.320 --> 00:44:08.440
And I had one line. And I remember him calling

799
00:44:08.480 --> 00:44:10.800
me and saying, you have no idea how much you

800
00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:14.599
contributed to that scene? And I just thought, I don't

801
00:44:14.599 --> 00:44:16.519
what are you talking about. You know, I had one line.

802
00:44:16.559 --> 00:44:18.599
He said, That's what I'm saying. He said, you have

803
00:44:18.679 --> 00:44:22.159
no idea how much that changed the way other people

804
00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:27.599
performed that day. Wow, And I was so like wow,

805
00:44:28.920 --> 00:44:33.440
it was really an incredible, wonderful experience to be singled

806
00:44:33.440 --> 00:44:36.280
out by the executive I think he was the executive

807
00:44:36.280 --> 00:44:43.960
producer or producer and did always find find the juice

808
00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:47.719
in any any in one line, there's something you can contribute,

809
00:44:48.039 --> 00:44:49.760
and I love that as an artist, you know, that's

810
00:44:49.800 --> 00:44:52.000
why we're part of the reason we're doing what we do.

811
00:44:52.599 --> 00:44:56.039
So that's great.

812
00:44:57.320 --> 00:44:58.920
Now scared to death it is.

813
00:44:59.039 --> 00:45:01.920
It reminds me of like Sam sam Raimi film Out

814
00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:07.159
kind of you know, flirts with comedy and horror and

815
00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:10.440
kind of goes back and forth. And it's just fun

816
00:45:10.639 --> 00:45:14.199
as for me, as if you were what drew you

817
00:45:14.360 --> 00:45:16.920
to you know what drew you to that what made

818
00:45:17.239 --> 00:45:20.320
Lynde Shay say this is something that I want to do.

819
00:45:21.119 --> 00:45:25.960
I just loved the character She's that she's nasty and attractive.

820
00:45:26.280 --> 00:45:29.039
Those are which I don't think I never played nasty

821
00:45:29.079 --> 00:45:33.639
attractive for and and that she has a reason that

822
00:45:33.679 --> 00:45:36.400
she's like she is, that we got to discover that

823
00:45:36.519 --> 00:45:39.639
there's she's not just a one no badass. I mean

824
00:45:39.639 --> 00:45:44.719
that she had her history also created this character that

825
00:45:44.880 --> 00:45:47.800
was nasty to other people. And I love that it's

826
00:45:47.880 --> 00:45:49.800
you see it and you know, kind of settled nice

827
00:45:49.840 --> 00:45:52.719
ways throughout the film as well, that she she changes

828
00:45:52.760 --> 00:45:55.480
and you see what what she dealt with as a kid.

829
00:45:55.920 --> 00:45:57.679
So it has you know, a real kind of heart

830
00:45:57.760 --> 00:46:02.559
to it and me. I love Paul and I love Eric.

831
00:46:02.599 --> 00:46:05.039
I mean, they're just two really wonderful people to work

832
00:46:05.079 --> 00:46:07.840
with for me, and I have great respect for So

833
00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:10.199
it was a no. It was a win win situation,

834
00:46:10.559 --> 00:46:13.559
you know, in every way. And I'm very happy that

835
00:46:13.639 --> 00:46:17.119
people really are enjoying the film and you know, and

836
00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:20.960
having an experience of their own with it, which is great.

837
00:46:22.039 --> 00:46:25.519
What you've said before in interviews that you know, horror

838
00:46:25.519 --> 00:46:29.559
is really about the emotional truth. What is the emotional

839
00:46:29.599 --> 00:46:31.559
truth for you? And scared to death?

840
00:46:32.440 --> 00:46:42.400
Oh, the people can hurt you and change you, and

841
00:46:42.440 --> 00:46:51.880
it's your responsibility to emerge from that triumphant that you

842
00:46:51.960 --> 00:46:55.320
don't have to become who they've made you be, but

843
00:46:55.400 --> 00:46:59.280
you can still become. You still have to remember there's

844
00:46:59.320 --> 00:47:01.920
a world out there that you have to articulate and

845
00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:03.840
what does it make you feel? And you don't have

846
00:47:03.880 --> 00:47:06.800
to be the way they told you you're supposed to feel. That.

847
00:47:06.880 --> 00:47:09.760
You have to take it in yourself and think, maybe

848
00:47:09.760 --> 00:47:12.280
this is not maybe this is good. Maybe Jasper is

849
00:47:12.280 --> 00:47:15.440
a really good guy. What if he has something to

850
00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:19.559
teach me. You've got to stay open. It's hard. I mean,

851
00:47:19.599 --> 00:47:22.440
I'm the first one to say I'm not doing it.

852
00:47:23.159 --> 00:47:24.719
You know, you can get out of my die. I'm

853
00:47:24.760 --> 00:47:26.599
not doing it. We're not doing it. And then I

854
00:47:26.760 --> 00:47:29.320
have to settle down and think, Okay, take a deep breath,

855
00:47:29.400 --> 00:47:33.400
and you know which is my real name, and know

856
00:47:33.519 --> 00:47:36.519
how I talk to myself, you know, and to really

857
00:47:36.559 --> 00:47:39.119
take a deep breath and look out, because we so

858
00:47:39.320 --> 00:47:42.280
we get so caught inside ourselves, and I think that's

859
00:47:42.280 --> 00:47:46.079
how we destroy ourselves. You know, you're not allowing There's

860
00:47:46.119 --> 00:47:48.800
all kinds of stuff around that will pull you away

861
00:47:48.840 --> 00:47:52.360
from the negative. You know, look outside one day and

862
00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:55.360
watch the bird that's landed on the thing. I hate

863
00:47:55.400 --> 00:47:58.440
to sound corny, but it's not corny. I mean, I'm

864
00:47:58.519 --> 00:48:00.280
so happy in the way I live because I have

865
00:48:00.320 --> 00:48:02.679
a lot of nature around me. All I have to

866
00:48:02.679 --> 00:48:05.280
do is walk out my door if I'm not feeling

867
00:48:05.360 --> 00:48:08.239
great about something, It's all i have to do. And

868
00:48:08.280 --> 00:48:09.199
all of a sudden, it's like.

869
00:48:09.199 --> 00:48:09.920
Oh my god.

870
00:48:10.480 --> 00:48:13.960
You know, suddenly you could feel everything open. And that's

871
00:48:13.960 --> 00:48:18.639
how you stay healthy. Also, constriction is what makes people sick.

872
00:48:19.159 --> 00:48:23.280
Remember that it's about when they say breathe, they really

873
00:48:23.360 --> 00:48:27.199
need breath. And we all have that capacity, and we

874
00:48:27.280 --> 00:48:29.960
all have to remember we have it because that will

875
00:48:29.960 --> 00:48:33.639
help us stay well and move forward.

876
00:48:34.519 --> 00:48:35.360
That is beautiful.

877
00:48:36.639 --> 00:48:40.239
So you know, for scared to death, you've done you know,

878
00:48:40.400 --> 00:48:43.159
smaller in the films, you've done big budget, you know,

879
00:48:44.679 --> 00:48:50.480
giant studio films. Where how do you find as an actor,

880
00:48:50.559 --> 00:48:56.599
if any, the difference in that system for you as

881
00:48:56.679 --> 00:49:00.840
an actor approaching that, I think it's the same.

882
00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:03.159
I mean, I think you you know, whether it's a

883
00:49:03.159 --> 00:49:07.199
lot of money or a small budget, it's still about cooperation,

884
00:49:08.280 --> 00:49:13.199
being a good listener, being a contributor. Don't be a complainer.

885
00:49:13.519 --> 00:49:15.960
You know, if you have something that's not working, you

886
00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:19.920
can still express it, but don't name men, and don't

887
00:49:20.480 --> 00:49:23.239
I get there, you cam, I'm not gonna do. You

888
00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:25.920
have to, like you know, go to the person that

889
00:49:25.960 --> 00:49:28.800
can maybe help change it. And always be polite. I mean,

890
00:49:29.559 --> 00:49:32.360
being courteous goes a long way in our in our

891
00:49:32.440 --> 00:49:34.880
business because there are a lot of people, they're so

892
00:49:35.360 --> 00:49:38.400
they're so short circuited by all the it's a tough

893
00:49:38.440 --> 00:49:42.320
business and to stay centered and everybody wants something. Every

894
00:49:42.360 --> 00:49:46.159
single second is solving a problem. Every second is solving

895
00:49:46.159 --> 00:49:51.280
another problem. And so I think you can contribute by

896
00:49:53.159 --> 00:49:57.719
taking a deep breath and again being being a good

897
00:49:57.800 --> 00:50:00.199
listener to what's around you, kind of opening yourself up,

898
00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:02.880
and you know, sometimes you've got to be a little

899
00:50:02.960 --> 00:50:05.000
quiet on set. I don't care if you're the star,

900
00:50:05.360 --> 00:50:07.920
you're not the star, or you're a gopher or whatever.

901
00:50:08.400 --> 00:50:10.719
Sometimes you just have to settle and be a listener

902
00:50:11.119 --> 00:50:14.199
to see what the next positive move is to make.

903
00:50:14.880 --> 00:50:18.599
So I forgot what you asked.

904
00:50:18.320 --> 00:50:23.800
Me, you answered, You answered it wonderfully. Do you You

905
00:50:23.800 --> 00:50:27.400
know you've done one hundred and fifty some plus projects.

906
00:50:28.039 --> 00:50:31.239
Do you Is there something that you haven't yet done

907
00:50:31.320 --> 00:50:33.119
that you're like that? You know, I'm going to do

908
00:50:33.239 --> 00:50:35.760
that one of my next five projects. I'm going to

909
00:50:35.840 --> 00:50:36.039
do that.

910
00:50:37.280 --> 00:50:37.760
I don't think.

911
00:50:37.800 --> 00:50:37.880
So.

912
00:50:37.960 --> 00:50:40.119
The only thing I thought of is I don't ever

913
00:50:40.159 --> 00:50:42.519
want to do Shakespeare because I could never learn that.

914
00:50:44.719 --> 00:50:50.239
And I was watching Sir, Oh my god, oh late

915
00:50:50.360 --> 00:50:57.039
and Stephen Colbert, Sir, the most wonderful English actor on

916
00:50:57.079 --> 00:51:00.480
the planet, who is Oh my gosh, I'm I've been

917
00:51:00.480 --> 00:51:02.880
talking so much today, I can't think. But he did.

918
00:51:03.199 --> 00:51:09.719
He did a Shakespeare's soliloquy that I was bawling. It

919
00:51:09.760 --> 00:51:12.280
was so beautiful, and I thought I could never do that,

920
00:51:12.440 --> 00:51:13.880
And I really don't think I could.

921
00:51:14.280 --> 00:51:14.639
I don't.

922
00:51:14.920 --> 00:51:22.159
I have too much fear in me about about on

923
00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:24.679
some level that would not allow me to learn that,

924
00:51:24.800 --> 00:51:26.599
to be able to learn it and to perform it.

925
00:51:26.800 --> 00:51:29.519
Not so much that I don't understand it even because

926
00:51:31.360 --> 00:51:34.719
oh gosh, I was gonna kill me because he's one

927
00:51:34.760 --> 00:51:37.599
of the most famous English actors. Can you think who

928
00:51:37.639 --> 00:51:37.960
it is?

929
00:51:38.480 --> 00:51:41.039
I know, I'm like my brain is racking up.

930
00:51:41.360 --> 00:51:44.119
Hey, look up Stephen Colbert and Shakespeare and see what

931
00:51:44.159 --> 00:51:50.000
do you see? What shows up? But it's material that

932
00:51:50.159 --> 00:51:53.079
I think goes goes beyond me, and I hate to

933
00:51:53.119 --> 00:51:55.519
admit that, but that's how I feel. I don't really

934
00:51:55.639 --> 00:51:57.880
under it would take me so long to really understand

935
00:51:57.920 --> 00:51:59.760
what I was saying and to be able to take

936
00:51:59.760 --> 00:52:01.960
that into my system and then to be able to

937
00:52:02.039 --> 00:52:06.119
deliver it to someone else. I find that magic, and

938
00:52:06.159 --> 00:52:08.639
I feel like I'm aware of my own limitations and

939
00:52:08.679 --> 00:52:12.199
so I respect those and I'm old enough to go.

940
00:52:12.679 --> 00:52:15.639
I don't have to kill myself over you know. I

941
00:52:15.679 --> 00:52:19.159
mean that I'm clear about the things I'm good at

942
00:52:19.280 --> 00:52:22.320
and what I love doing, and hopefully I can do

943
00:52:22.400 --> 00:52:24.920
that for very many long more years, you know. So

944
00:52:26.320 --> 00:52:27.360
did you find it did you.

945
00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:29.039
Find That's what I'm looking up right now.

946
00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:31.119
It's going to make me crazy.

947
00:52:31.159 --> 00:52:39.199
It's Shakespear. It was just sir, Yes, Sir Ian McKellen.

948
00:52:39.280 --> 00:52:40.159
He is incredible.

949
00:52:40.920 --> 00:52:44.119
Oh my god. I just he had us. I means

950
00:52:44.119 --> 00:52:48.039
it was thrilling because I understood every word he said,

951
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and when I look at it on a page, I go,

952
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I don't really know what that means, and I don't believe.

953
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I mean, I have a fear factor that I could

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do without, but I'm still there. But when I I

955
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literally I said on my couch, just weeping, it was

956
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so beautiful. So I have to know my limitations of

957
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what I'm really good at, and I don't have to

958
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get mad at myself for the things I don't want

959
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to tackle because I'm still have fear and try and

960
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use all that stuff to filter down into the work

961
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I do do and will do and present back to you.

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It's the human condition.

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I love that.

964
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And finally, you know you've done such incredible work over

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you know so many titles. What do you want people

966
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to remember about your work? You know, one hundred years

967
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from now, three hundred years.

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Fer while, or you.

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I just hope they remember.

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Something I don't.

971
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I guess truth maybe exposing a part of of self

972
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that we all have that people don't often visit to

973
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surprise people a little bit with things about themselves that

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they haven't thought to really consider. But that's a great question.

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I'm going to think about that one for a while.

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I'm just so grateful to have this life I have.

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I mean, it's just having I'm having a wonderful, wonderful time,

978
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and I really want to give back everything I can

979
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to uh support. I love telling young actors, giving them hope,

980
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and it's so easy, you know, because they want to

981
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hear it. And so I love giving as much as

982
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much as I can give to someone else to make

983
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them believe in themselves. That would be a gift for

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me to be able to give.

985
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Wow, that's beautiful. Thank you so much, Lenne. You are

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a legend and icon and such a sweet person. I

987
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really appreciate your time.

988
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Well, this was a great and you also made me

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feel good about myself with how with my ani answers

990
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to your wonderful questions and that was that. Thank you

991
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for that as well.

992
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So thank you, and I hope to talk to you

993
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for your next project.

994
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Yep, there's gonna be.

995
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We're gonna be.

996
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Have a great day.

997
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Thank you so much.

998
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Thank you, Lynn Shay.

999
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Always great talking with someone who has helped literally shape

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modern horror the way she has. And again, if you're

1001
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ready for something spooky, you can check out Scared to Death,

1002
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which is out right.

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Now and I highly recommend it.

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All right, that's today's episode of pop Culture Weekly. We

1005
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talked about slanted and dove headfirst into Scared to Death,

1006
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which means today's episode had satire, identity and people who

1007
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have spent their careers terrifying audiences in the best possible

1008
00:55:46.840 --> 00:55:50.559
way and to our delight, and honestly, that's a pretty

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good pop culture mix. If you enjoyed the show, make

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check out the pop Culture Weekly YouTube channel. Until next time,

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keep watching great movies, avoid haunted houses when possible, and

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I love you, see you next week.

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We thank you for listening to pop Culture Weekly. Here

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