INT: Giuseppe Andrews

Last Updated on July 28, 2021

The Arrow
interviews Giuseppe Andrews

“Cabin
Fever” is now gracing our screen and painting it red. If you’ve seen it, I’m
sure you’ve
warmed up to the cop, the myth, the “Party Man” himself: Deputy
Winston. I recently had the chance to catch up with the man behind the
party animal, all-around kool dude Giuseppe Andrews. Here’s what the actor, writer, director,
musician and crazy ass mofo (that’s a compliment) tossed my
way.

ARROW:
You’ve been in many high profile films such as “Independence
Day”, “Pleasantville”, “Never Been Kissed” and more. 
How did you fall into
acting? Was it by fluke or had it always been long time goal?

GA:
I was living in a van with my dad. we’d sleep in supermarket parking
lots. We were dead ass motherfucking broke. We were stealing soda
cans from the high school dumpsters….and my dad ate experimental
pills for hospital surveys. One day, my dad answered an ad in the paper. They
were looking for an older guy to get his hair cut for a hair
infomercial. He went to the audition and got it. When he got to the
set, they asked if he had a kid who could ask him for hotdogs while he
was getting his hair cut. I got the part. The director liked the way I
asked for hotdogs and sent me to an agent friend of his who started
sending me on calls. I started getting gigs right away.

ARROW:
You’ve acted in one of my favorite films of all time: “American History
X”.  Is there anything specific (an event, the feel of the shoot…) that
stands out when you look back at that experience?

GA:
My best scene was cut. Part of it is included on the DVD as a deleted
scene. It’s me and another skinhead screaming at an old black homeless
woman. We shot it on the Venice boardwalk and it was all ad-libbed. At a
certain point during the scene, Tony (the director) sent a young black
guy in to come to the old lady’s defense. We didn’t know he was coming
into the scene and a fight broke out with me and the guy. I punched
him in the face and a black guy with a skateboard hanging out in the
crowd ran over to me and broke the skateboard across my back…it was
the best scene in the film. Losing Tony K ruined the movie for me.
It’s just a Hollywood hate film. They should have let the director
make the movie he wanted to.

ARROW: I recently saw you in “Cabin Fever” as
“Deputy Winston” and totally loved your performance. When you were
first handed
the script, what was it about the part that made you want to tackle it?

GA:
I knew I could get my line about having “five pounds of dangling meat”
in the film.

ARROW:
Would you say that your chemistry with director Eli Roth was a
positive one? How was your actor/director relationship?

GA:
I love Eli. He’s not a phony motherfucker, we got the work done, had

some fun, talked about films and I can’t wait to work for him again.
And bless his heart for telling people about the films I have
directed.

ARROW: If you were asked
to play Deputy Winston again, would you do it?

GA:
Of course. Deputy Winston can whup a spider monkey’s ass (shout out to
Wesley Willis r.i.p.) rock over London, rock on Chicago!

ARROW: Having visited your Official Site ( www.giuseppeandrewsfilms.com
), I saw that you’re a director yourself, putting out some pretty
excessive stuff. What is it about this Guerilla type of filmmaking
that appeals to you so much?

Freedom!
Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! Mother fuckin freedom! Mother fuckin
freedom! Mother fuckin freedom! Mother fuckin freedom! Mother fuckin
freedom!

ARROW: Fair enough. Do you have
any plans to ever venture in a more mainstream market via your
directorial efforts?

GA:

Yes. I have just finished a script that I want Eli’s company to
produce. Mr. T is gonna be in it. In one of the scenes he’s reading,
Ecce Homo by Nietzsche in a Border’s book store and signing old ladies
ass cheeks by the cash register…it’s all gonna be filmed in downtown
Hollywood…it’s about Mexicans that win the lotto.

ARROW:
Of all the films that you’ve directed, which one are you most proud of
and why?

GA:
I’m proud of every motherfuckin one of them. I’m proud of my motherfuckin self for everything I’ve done. My films are the real America
and I didn’t just find a trailer park, make some films and go back to
my condo. I live the life of a trailer park outlaw and I will until I
move on into the next aluminum dimension.

ARROW:
You’re
definitely a “jack of all trades”. You write (books and screenplays),
direct and act. Which trade fulfills you the most as an artist and
why?

GA:

I’m also a musician. I’m gonna find a way to release my tool shed
recordings in the future. For the past four years, I’ve been recording
music in a tool shed behind my dad’s trailer that I used to live in
before I saved up enough dough to buy my own rig. There’s two volumes
of music.. “Vol. 1 My Brother’s a Wolf” and “Vol.2 Children’s
Bibles”. I’m also gonna make a record next year under the band name HOBO JUNGLE
and I will be doing the soundtrack for the film I want Eli to
produce. I will continue to move from trailer park to trailer park
making movies and writing books. They all mean everything to me. Each
medium is a friend to me. They are my life.

ARROW:
What’s next on your
plate directing, writing and acting wise?

GA:
Acting-wise, I don’t know. I’m auditioning. I starred in an independent
film called “Tweek City” that’s coming out next year. It’s the best
acting I’ve done and hopefully that’ll start a buzz. Directing-wise, I
have just finished a film called “January” about a manic month in the
life of two death metal musician brothers “Beethoven” and
“Mozart”. “Beethoven” has fathered an out-of-wedlock set of conjoined
twins. He feels so guilty and he’s so fucked up on cough medicine that
he attaches a “dummy” to his own head and wears it every day as a tribute to the lives he has created. His
brother “Mozart” who was shot by “Beethoven” no longer has the use of
his legs and now depends on “Beethoven” to get his beloved food
(spam
like) canned “Squirrel Meat” at the 99 cent store. The film is inner
cut with live footage from “Self induced Pain”, the brother’s band.

I have also finished “Trailer Town 2” about an 80-year old comic named
O’Henry who incorporates a horse persona into his act named “Mr.
Ted” (Mr. Ed’s
wild outspoken brother). He has written a book called “Barn Door
Messages” that he thinks is gonna make him a household name. He meets
up with another comic in the park who’s girlfriend Pilates runs a
local bookstore. She agrees at first to sell the “Mr. Ted” book but
then backs out at the last second because of the book’s racist
content. O’Henry who has recently gone on the wagon and quit America’s
new favorite alcoholic beverage “PUSSY JUICE”, relapses when he finds
out his book isn’t going into the store and goes insane. Next month,
I’ll be starting “Trailer Town 3″…called “Kiss the
Cook”. The trailer
park residents start cooking speed in huge quantities in their
trailers and selling it to the local gang members in exchange for pit
bulls. I’m also working on another script that I’m writing just for
Mr. T and
lastly, I’m also writing another book called “Dick Nose”.

I’d like to thank
Giuseppe for his time and wish him the best in all of his endeavors.
ROCK ON, BROTHER! Check out the man’s off-the-wall
site here and if you haven’t seen it yet, rush to your theatres and hit up
“Cabin Fever”. This Bud’s for you, Giuseppe! CHEERS!