INT: Andrew Divoff

a fan of the underdog, Mr. Karloff had very expressive eyes. When I was a kid

I would sneak out to the TV at 2 or 3 in the morning and if I was lucky I’d

catch the Pit and the Pendulum, I’m also a big fan of both Linda Blair’s and

Kurtzman’s insistence on my playing the Wishmaster, I wouldn’t be talking to you right now. Filming the two Wishmaster movies was really like doing two variations on one theme, and

that had most to do with the way the humorous nuances were handled from one film to the other. Aside from the obvious differences in costume and make-up

always potentially tough for the team that bats second as it were. The

2, mostly as I said in the irreverent humor, which got downright ugly in the

second part, the evolution of costume and make-up, and the evolution of being able to pack 8 weeks of work into 4 with a smaller budget. It was a

tough act to follow but Jack Sholder handled his crew and his set like a

captain on a mission and brought us in on time and budget. There is also the part where you’re just proud of what you’ve done with a fun character and

character decreases as the budget goes up. For this reason alone I’m fortunate enough to have created a niche for myself, staying within a

certain budget. This allows me the ability to cross-over, if you will, and

do action films as well as horror pix and dramas. One of my own favorites is

Magic Island because I have a whole crowd of mini-fans who can watch

it (no modesty) because they won’t be exposed to the bad words the big people say

big budget film and there is no doubt that the STARS of the film are the

ones putting most of the electricity. I have honestly not had and do not

have one bad thing to say about the stars I’ve been lucky enough to work

with. My favorite is Harrison Ford and I was recently very pleasantly surprised by Gary
Busey-

one is called Riding Cool- no, not the bobsled movie- this is a little flick

shot in Florida with real bikers, some of them still friends, who hold a run

to save some wetlands…ummm…let’s see there’s the stuff my mom shot of me

There may be other characters which had kind and sensitive moments in between heroic

moments, i.e. when the hero of the movie is holding a gun no matter how sympathetic the character, you pretty much have to throw out kind

and sensitive, so there are very few really kind and sensitive characters

any more, the prototypical hero is a man of action and therefore a hardened

first since we won’t be dwelling on it- there will be a Wishmaster 3

and I believe even a 4- they will be shot contiguously- I’m sorry to say they

I’m excited at the prospect of FAUST “made in Spain” and based on the comic

by the same name and only loosely based on the novel by Goethe. It was great

to be in a new place (work wise anyway-I attended the university of Barcelona

some 20 years earlier) where you could really get lost in your

character- I play M, he’s based on Mephistopheles and was a trip to play. I walked around

all day with bleached white hair and eyebrows looking like the albino from

hell! Faust will debut at the Sitges film festival in October this year.

Now for the good news, as you may or may not know from visiting my site, I

paint and draw whenever I get the chance and the thing I am working on now

which gives me great pleasure is my own comic book. The title of it is CYBER

and the artwork which is being done primarily by an up and coming Spanish

even present a book report in front of a classroom, that he would seek out

audiences to play to, he would not have wanted to grow up! I did always have this thing about needing to show that my shyness was not

due to stupidity, so when I would break out of my shyness for those brief

moments, it was humor that helped me escape. The principal told me that my

sense of humor was too dry for a kid my age (7th grade) and to cut it out.

You could say that what we had there was “a failure to communicate”. It was only when I moved out to LA from the east coast some 16 years ago

that I got interested in the acting. It was time, I was a college educated

kid who spoke 7 languages and was willing to experiment with his emotions,

My first audition came over a pay phone as I had pulled the limo to the curb

to make a call “could I really speak Russian”? “Yes”.

“Can you think of something to say in Russian and scream it for

us? “OK” I did and was told to report to set to play screaming Russian agent. The show was called Blacke’s

In terms of acting, the most profound acting experience I’ve had was on a

movie called Deadly Voyage. It is a true story and a favorite because of the

experience shared with every one of my fellow actors. My most vivid impression of the 3 month shoot in Ghana, on the west coast of Africa was

going in to work in Takoradi which exists at the pleasure of the port authority. We would travel along a pristine shoreline until we caught the

first glimpse of sunlight, by that time we were at the ship which was our

stage and would begin to climb the 62 rungs which would bring us aboard,

to no one’s notice, we’d grab our wardrobe which had not yet rid itself of the

previous day’s stench and sweat and climb down another 76 steps into cargo

hold number two- the thought of sunlight was abandoned for the rest of the

easy: CD: Woodstock, VIDEO: Man Who Would be King, BOOZE: a choice Calvados, the hot girl of my choice would be my sweetheart for the last two

skiing or working out with my martial arts. My mind needs something to

concentrate on at all times so I find it relaxing to pass the time with

one that offended me so much that I had to round them all up and make them

What I do find myself saying some times, because I’ve watched what goes on this side of the fence is, “I don’t know how you got that piece of $#!+