Q: Congratulations, wewe had a pretty big weekend last weekend. [He got married]
A wonderful weekend, thank you. It was phenomenal, the best siku of my life.
Q: How did wewe get involved with this – did wewe audition au did they come to wewe and say, ‘You’re our hero?’
Joel came to me and said, ‘You’ve been doing such a great job with everything else, I’d really upendo to have wewe as a part of this film.’ I always thought in the back of my head, can I do a horror, and I thought, ‘Hell, man, I can’t wait to give it a shot.’ And it was fun; it was a great time.
Q: Do wewe like horror films?
I do, particular horror films, I like Night of the Living Dead, the original, the ’50s version of Vincent Price’s House of Wax, I upendo those types of films.
Q: This is very different from Vincent Price’s House of Wax.
Oh, completely different. We took liberties. We contemporized it just a bit, but it’s fun, wewe can go in and sit down and get a few scares and then go home.
Q: What’s it like when wewe get that call from Joel Silver? That’s a pretty big phone call to get.
It was an honor, how else do wewe say it, it was such an honor. Joel has just done so much for this business: Matrix, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, that to have the opportunity to sit back and learn from him was a gift that I couldn’t turn down, wewe know what I mean? It was such a blessing. So I was obviously a little nervous, which I don’t really get nervous, but when you’re sitting down and you’re like, ‘Dude, that’s Joel Silver,’ it stresses wewe out a bit.
Q: What did wewe draw from to play the evil twin, do wewe have any sibling stories?
No. I have a very, very large family, I’ve three au four brothers and a sister – well, I have a half brother and I have a sister, so I really understood the relationships that I have, and I bonded with my siblings. Elisha and I didn’t really have much time to bond, but the time that we could find we made it work, and it was exciting. I think everyone has kind of wanted a twin at some point.
Q: So what did wewe and Elisha find that wewe had in common?
Well, we look very similar. She could easily be my sister. But I think just our dedication to film, and working on professionalism and growth as an actor, is really where we ended up finding our bond. We really take our craft seriously.
Q: Was it as physical a shoot as it looked?
Yeah, it was definitely physically enduring. Just with the wax, it’s not as easy to songesha around in the crap as it looks. We had to shoot this one scene in a karanga siagi bed, it looks like a karanga siagi bed, when I’m wrestling around with one of the villains, and the first time we shot it, I guess the consistency was not as stable as it should have been, we sunk right down to the bottom, and the kitanda fell apart, and we were sprawling out, and in order to get out it took two au three guys to actually pull wewe out of the bed. wewe could not get out on your own. So it was definitely physical.
Q: Was that something that wewe anticipated from the moment wewe signed on?
When I read the script I thought to myself, ‘How the hell are we going to pull this off?’ And then I went, ‘Well, Joel will do it, Joel’s the man.’ And we did it.
Q: What did wewe think of your other female co-star, Paris Hilton?
She impressed us all, she really did. She’s a sweetheart. Her and my wife, I can say now, get along well, and I think she just made everybody in the cast comfortable with her.
Q: Had wewe socialized with her before?
No, we just met in rehearsal.
Q: With the grisly side of the movie, did wewe guys screw around on the set?
Jared and I have known each other for a few years, we did the first season of Gilmore Girls together, so we’ve been best Marafiki for quite awhile, so we actually roomed together in Australia and that was a riot. We’d sit up to all hours at night playing videogames and having a drink au two, and just beating the shit out of each other. That’s what I did in my off-time, but when I go to work, especially on a film, I try to really separate myself from all that, unless it’s really not an emotional scene au really physical, I tend to want to just stay to myself, put my i-pod in and just do my work.
Q: And when you’re finished for the siku is it easy to walk away from something that’s so gruesome?
Yeah, I didn’t go nyumbani and have nightmares, because I’m there, and I go, ‘Hey, it’s not real.’ Elisha’s still got her finger. But I think that especially in this business wewe definitely take your work nyumbani with you. wewe never really get to go nyumbani and forget about it, because wewe go nyumbani and wewe start working for the inayofuata day. wewe want to make sure that everything’s prepared, and wewe go nyumbani and take your phone calls, and everything else for business to come, and I think it’s the one thing that wewe can’t go nyumbani and just forget about it.
Q: Have wewe had a chance to see the movie?
Yeah.
Q: When you’re watching it, and they put in the all the special effects and the sound, can wewe just enjoy it as a movie?
I think the first time wewe see it it’s going to be one of those where you’re like so critical of yourself. You’re your own worst critic, so wewe watch every little thing, and wewe walk away and wewe go, ‘You know, I’m happy with what I accomplished for the picture,’ And then the sekunde time wewe can watch it zaidi as a viewer, zaidi as an outsider. But, dude, I’ll be the first to admit, I jumped a couple of times.
Q: What bits did wewe jump at?
I jumped at the campsite when Elisha leaves the tent, I don’t want to give too much away. And I jumped when Paris was in her tent, after the little striptease, which everyone’s going to want to hear about anyway. And I jumped there, at the climax of that point. I was like, ‘God, it got me.’
Q: Speaking of climax, the end was pretty spectacular – how hard was that to shoot?
Oh, god. Without giving it away – it was incredibly grueling, and wewe went nyumbani every siku and all wewe wanted was a shower, because wewe had wax everywhere. I’m not trying to be gruesome here au anything like that, but my God it sticks to your hair, and you’re pulling crap out, it’s horrible. But I think wewe just look mbele to getting nyumbani and getting in the bathtub.
Q: So they really used wax?
They used a lot of real wax, they used a lot of compounds that they put together for the slippery wax, because wewe really don’t want to be sliding around in hot, melting wax, that’s really not a great idea. But the floors, the entire set was made of wax, because they did use a lot of wax.
Q: wewe had your hair short, so wewe got off easy.
I loved it. To go to work, I was ready in five dakika and I was ready to go. It tends to be a summer tradition for me, to shave it off, but I’m not doing it this summer because I’ve got projects upcoming.
Q: What projects?
I’m doing Stealing Cars with Warner’s again, my home. So that’s going to be one hell of a piece for myself.
Q: Do wewe see doing something like this as a career move?
I do, and the reason that I can say that is because wewe can sit back and watch One mti kilima and this, and wewe won’t see an ounce of Lucas in this project. There’s not an ounce of Lucas in Nick, and I think that’s just a little bit of what I wanted to show, it’s not necessarily Good Will Hunting au Taxi Driver, but it’s an opportunity that I had to create another character with mystique and onyesha that to the world, and age up a little bit and onyesha another audience what I have to offer.
Q: Are Good Will Hunting and Taxi Driver the kind of sinema wewe want to do?
Those are the kind of films I really appreciate when I go to watch. I really upendo films that I sit back and for two weeks after I’m still thinking about it.
Q: What was your experience with the director?
Jaume is awesome. Jaume was such a badass, he had a Mohawk the whole shoot, and kwa the end of the project his beard was down to like here, he just didn’t have time to shave. He was such a great guy, I really enjoyed him. He’s just got such a great personality. We created a real bond.
Q: Did wewe bring nyumbani anything from the set, did wewe steal any wax props?
I wish I could have. No, I have nothing. [looking around at the wax figures on the soundstage] They have to be here for the inayofuata three days, but if one goes missing, they’ll never know, right?
Q: Is there anything else in the can at this point?
Just this and the rest of mti Hill. I’m shooting One mti kilima like ten months out the year, and so I have a very, very small window – we’re supposed to go back July 13th and I’m shooting a film right in the middle and then promoting this and getting out there so people will check it out, and I think that’s a pretty busy summer.
Q: What would wewe like to see happen with the character inayofuata season?
I don’t really get involved in that, that’s not my place, I let the writers take care of that, they’ve done a pretty good job so far obviously, and I just go and do it. They give it to me, and some things really spark my interest, and others I’m just kind of like, ‘Dude, I’m going to go knock it out.’
Q: How much do wewe think about your audience, wewe did cinderella Story for a much younger audience and now this R rated horror movie. Are the cinderella Story mashabiki going to come to this?
I hope so, with their parents. Here’s the thing, I think especially with the MTV onyesha we’ve got, I think it definitely portrays to those young adults who might not be able to distinguish the difference between a movie and real life, wewe get to see the whole process, behind the scenes of making this film, so I think they can differentiate between the film and what’s really going on with us, and so I think it’s a great opportunity for the young adults to be able to get an opportunity to go see a rated R movie with their parents, because they’ve seen the creation, they are a little bit zaidi attached to it.
Q: How did wewe deal with being so far away from home?
Oh, it sucked. It sucked, I’ll be honest. I like Australia, I really did, but I wish I had a little bit zaidi time to travel, loved their cranberry juisi and their food, but I think to be honest, wewe just miss American television, and wewe miss your things, I missed my dog, I got Aussie [another dog] over there, which was awesome, but my first born child, Joe, my first born son, he’s my dog Joe, I was away from him and I was away from Soph and I was away from everything back home, so I think that’s hard, especially for three and a half months when wewe do not get an opportunity to leave.
Q: Did people come to see wewe at least?
Yeah, I had a few visitors that came out, but my family didn’t get to make the voyage, they were too busy, they were working their asses off as they should, Soph came on a few times, so it was nice.
Q: Was it shot in Australia just because of the money?
Not my territory. They said, ‘Hey, you’re going to Australia,’ I said, ‘Dude, rock and roll,’ I always wanted to go.
Q: Have wewe ever gone on a camping trip and did anything memorable happen to you?
Oh, god. I upendo camping trips, I go on camping trips all the time. Me and my boys go up to Sequoia, I believe that’s in northern California, I never drive, I fall asleep. I just upendo sitting kwa the campfire and leaving chakula out for the bears to come and attack. But one time me and my boy went up to go get some hotdogs from the stand that they had, there’s like a Christian camp that runs up there, but they serve chakula and I was sick of eating our fish, and I went up there to grab a hotdog and I’m standing there and I’m talking to my boy, and he’s looking right here, and he’s in the middle of a conversation, like, ‘Hey, so wewe want to go back to there’s a big kubeba right behind wewe do not move.’ And his eyes are open wide, and I’m like, ‘Dude,’ and I turned around and there’s a big brown bear, not zaidi that 10 feet behind me, knocks over a trash can, so that was memorable. But I survived, some asshole decided to throw a board at it, and I’m thinking, ‘That’s brilliant. Piss it off.’ And the kubeba walked away and took the garbage can with it.
A wonderful weekend, thank you. It was phenomenal, the best siku of my life.
Q: How did wewe get involved with this – did wewe audition au did they come to wewe and say, ‘You’re our hero?’
Joel came to me and said, ‘You’ve been doing such a great job with everything else, I’d really upendo to have wewe as a part of this film.’ I always thought in the back of my head, can I do a horror, and I thought, ‘Hell, man, I can’t wait to give it a shot.’ And it was fun; it was a great time.
Q: Do wewe like horror films?
I do, particular horror films, I like Night of the Living Dead, the original, the ’50s version of Vincent Price’s House of Wax, I upendo those types of films.
Q: This is very different from Vincent Price’s House of Wax.
Oh, completely different. We took liberties. We contemporized it just a bit, but it’s fun, wewe can go in and sit down and get a few scares and then go home.
Q: What’s it like when wewe get that call from Joel Silver? That’s a pretty big phone call to get.
It was an honor, how else do wewe say it, it was such an honor. Joel has just done so much for this business: Matrix, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, that to have the opportunity to sit back and learn from him was a gift that I couldn’t turn down, wewe know what I mean? It was such a blessing. So I was obviously a little nervous, which I don’t really get nervous, but when you’re sitting down and you’re like, ‘Dude, that’s Joel Silver,’ it stresses wewe out a bit.
Q: What did wewe draw from to play the evil twin, do wewe have any sibling stories?
No. I have a very, very large family, I’ve three au four brothers and a sister – well, I have a half brother and I have a sister, so I really understood the relationships that I have, and I bonded with my siblings. Elisha and I didn’t really have much time to bond, but the time that we could find we made it work, and it was exciting. I think everyone has kind of wanted a twin at some point.
Q: So what did wewe and Elisha find that wewe had in common?
Well, we look very similar. She could easily be my sister. But I think just our dedication to film, and working on professionalism and growth as an actor, is really where we ended up finding our bond. We really take our craft seriously.
Q: Was it as physical a shoot as it looked?
Yeah, it was definitely physically enduring. Just with the wax, it’s not as easy to songesha around in the crap as it looks. We had to shoot this one scene in a karanga siagi bed, it looks like a karanga siagi bed, when I’m wrestling around with one of the villains, and the first time we shot it, I guess the consistency was not as stable as it should have been, we sunk right down to the bottom, and the kitanda fell apart, and we were sprawling out, and in order to get out it took two au three guys to actually pull wewe out of the bed. wewe could not get out on your own. So it was definitely physical.
Q: Was that something that wewe anticipated from the moment wewe signed on?
When I read the script I thought to myself, ‘How the hell are we going to pull this off?’ And then I went, ‘Well, Joel will do it, Joel’s the man.’ And we did it.
Q: What did wewe think of your other female co-star, Paris Hilton?
She impressed us all, she really did. She’s a sweetheart. Her and my wife, I can say now, get along well, and I think she just made everybody in the cast comfortable with her.
Q: Had wewe socialized with her before?
No, we just met in rehearsal.
Q: With the grisly side of the movie, did wewe guys screw around on the set?
Jared and I have known each other for a few years, we did the first season of Gilmore Girls together, so we’ve been best Marafiki for quite awhile, so we actually roomed together in Australia and that was a riot. We’d sit up to all hours at night playing videogames and having a drink au two, and just beating the shit out of each other. That’s what I did in my off-time, but when I go to work, especially on a film, I try to really separate myself from all that, unless it’s really not an emotional scene au really physical, I tend to want to just stay to myself, put my i-pod in and just do my work.
Q: And when you’re finished for the siku is it easy to walk away from something that’s so gruesome?
Yeah, I didn’t go nyumbani and have nightmares, because I’m there, and I go, ‘Hey, it’s not real.’ Elisha’s still got her finger. But I think that especially in this business wewe definitely take your work nyumbani with you. wewe never really get to go nyumbani and forget about it, because wewe go nyumbani and wewe start working for the inayofuata day. wewe want to make sure that everything’s prepared, and wewe go nyumbani and take your phone calls, and everything else for business to come, and I think it’s the one thing that wewe can’t go nyumbani and just forget about it.
Q: Have wewe had a chance to see the movie?
Yeah.
Q: When you’re watching it, and they put in the all the special effects and the sound, can wewe just enjoy it as a movie?
I think the first time wewe see it it’s going to be one of those where you’re like so critical of yourself. You’re your own worst critic, so wewe watch every little thing, and wewe walk away and wewe go, ‘You know, I’m happy with what I accomplished for the picture,’ And then the sekunde time wewe can watch it zaidi as a viewer, zaidi as an outsider. But, dude, I’ll be the first to admit, I jumped a couple of times.
Q: What bits did wewe jump at?
I jumped at the campsite when Elisha leaves the tent, I don’t want to give too much away. And I jumped when Paris was in her tent, after the little striptease, which everyone’s going to want to hear about anyway. And I jumped there, at the climax of that point. I was like, ‘God, it got me.’
Q: Speaking of climax, the end was pretty spectacular – how hard was that to shoot?
Oh, god. Without giving it away – it was incredibly grueling, and wewe went nyumbani every siku and all wewe wanted was a shower, because wewe had wax everywhere. I’m not trying to be gruesome here au anything like that, but my God it sticks to your hair, and you’re pulling crap out, it’s horrible. But I think wewe just look mbele to getting nyumbani and getting in the bathtub.
Q: So they really used wax?
They used a lot of real wax, they used a lot of compounds that they put together for the slippery wax, because wewe really don’t want to be sliding around in hot, melting wax, that’s really not a great idea. But the floors, the entire set was made of wax, because they did use a lot of wax.
Q: wewe had your hair short, so wewe got off easy.
I loved it. To go to work, I was ready in five dakika and I was ready to go. It tends to be a summer tradition for me, to shave it off, but I’m not doing it this summer because I’ve got projects upcoming.
Q: What projects?
I’m doing Stealing Cars with Warner’s again, my home. So that’s going to be one hell of a piece for myself.
Q: Do wewe see doing something like this as a career move?
I do, and the reason that I can say that is because wewe can sit back and watch One mti kilima and this, and wewe won’t see an ounce of Lucas in this project. There’s not an ounce of Lucas in Nick, and I think that’s just a little bit of what I wanted to show, it’s not necessarily Good Will Hunting au Taxi Driver, but it’s an opportunity that I had to create another character with mystique and onyesha that to the world, and age up a little bit and onyesha another audience what I have to offer.
Q: Are Good Will Hunting and Taxi Driver the kind of sinema wewe want to do?
Those are the kind of films I really appreciate when I go to watch. I really upendo films that I sit back and for two weeks after I’m still thinking about it.
Q: What was your experience with the director?
Jaume is awesome. Jaume was such a badass, he had a Mohawk the whole shoot, and kwa the end of the project his beard was down to like here, he just didn’t have time to shave. He was such a great guy, I really enjoyed him. He’s just got such a great personality. We created a real bond.
Q: Did wewe bring nyumbani anything from the set, did wewe steal any wax props?
I wish I could have. No, I have nothing. [looking around at the wax figures on the soundstage] They have to be here for the inayofuata three days, but if one goes missing, they’ll never know, right?
Q: Is there anything else in the can at this point?
Just this and the rest of mti Hill. I’m shooting One mti kilima like ten months out the year, and so I have a very, very small window – we’re supposed to go back July 13th and I’m shooting a film right in the middle and then promoting this and getting out there so people will check it out, and I think that’s a pretty busy summer.
Q: What would wewe like to see happen with the character inayofuata season?
I don’t really get involved in that, that’s not my place, I let the writers take care of that, they’ve done a pretty good job so far obviously, and I just go and do it. They give it to me, and some things really spark my interest, and others I’m just kind of like, ‘Dude, I’m going to go knock it out.’
Q: How much do wewe think about your audience, wewe did cinderella Story for a much younger audience and now this R rated horror movie. Are the cinderella Story mashabiki going to come to this?
I hope so, with their parents. Here’s the thing, I think especially with the MTV onyesha we’ve got, I think it definitely portrays to those young adults who might not be able to distinguish the difference between a movie and real life, wewe get to see the whole process, behind the scenes of making this film, so I think they can differentiate between the film and what’s really going on with us, and so I think it’s a great opportunity for the young adults to be able to get an opportunity to go see a rated R movie with their parents, because they’ve seen the creation, they are a little bit zaidi attached to it.
Q: How did wewe deal with being so far away from home?
Oh, it sucked. It sucked, I’ll be honest. I like Australia, I really did, but I wish I had a little bit zaidi time to travel, loved their cranberry juisi and their food, but I think to be honest, wewe just miss American television, and wewe miss your things, I missed my dog, I got Aussie [another dog] over there, which was awesome, but my first born child, Joe, my first born son, he’s my dog Joe, I was away from him and I was away from Soph and I was away from everything back home, so I think that’s hard, especially for three and a half months when wewe do not get an opportunity to leave.
Q: Did people come to see wewe at least?
Yeah, I had a few visitors that came out, but my family didn’t get to make the voyage, they were too busy, they were working their asses off as they should, Soph came on a few times, so it was nice.
Q: Was it shot in Australia just because of the money?
Not my territory. They said, ‘Hey, you’re going to Australia,’ I said, ‘Dude, rock and roll,’ I always wanted to go.
Q: Have wewe ever gone on a camping trip and did anything memorable happen to you?
Oh, god. I upendo camping trips, I go on camping trips all the time. Me and my boys go up to Sequoia, I believe that’s in northern California, I never drive, I fall asleep. I just upendo sitting kwa the campfire and leaving chakula out for the bears to come and attack. But one time me and my boy went up to go get some hotdogs from the stand that they had, there’s like a Christian camp that runs up there, but they serve chakula and I was sick of eating our fish, and I went up there to grab a hotdog and I’m standing there and I’m talking to my boy, and he’s looking right here, and he’s in the middle of a conversation, like, ‘Hey, so wewe want to go back to there’s a big kubeba right behind wewe do not move.’ And his eyes are open wide, and I’m like, ‘Dude,’ and I turned around and there’s a big brown bear, not zaidi that 10 feet behind me, knocks over a trash can, so that was memorable. But I survived, some asshole decided to throw a board at it, and I’m thinking, ‘That’s brilliant. Piss it off.’ And the kubeba walked away and took the garbage can with it.
