Christina Ricci and Jesse Eisenburg chatted about the ISHTAR of horror, CURSED, with our Papa Jo this week. You can check out the full interview, or just enjoy some excerpts below. The excerpts are mostly positive, because who needs the karma of beating a project when it’s down, but rest assured there’s plenty of dish in the full skinny.
What was it like working with Wes Craven?
Christina Ricci (CR): He’s great. I mean, he’s Wes Craven. He’s incredibly experienced and this is like his thing and what he does best, and he’s just very laid back and smart and sarcastic and dry. He doesn’t let anything really upset him too much. We’re there to make a movie, but it’s going to be fun.
Jesse Eisenberg (JE): I think also because he’s been doing it so long and has such a command of the genre that everybody on the set has a great amount of respect for him and patience, not that he takes a long time, but there’s a general understanding that the outcome is going to be that much better, or there’s a general understanding that the outcome, there’s a confidence that what we were doing was worthwhile.
What was it like moving from material that was more reality-based and serious to a supernatural story like this one?
CR: Well, that’s one of the reasons that I took this movie, was that monster was so heavy and sort of an emotional journey. I mean, Monster was a great experience because I loved working with Charlize and I loved the director, Patty . But at the same time, when you’re working with material that is that dark, eventually you’re just going to feel a little bit heavy. So I literally landed in LA after filming that, coming back from Orlando, and my agent’s like “Okay, you need to go tomorrow to meet on the Wes Craven movie that you can do starting in two weeks if you want to.” I was like, “Yeah, that sounds good. Something lighter, like playing a normal person who’s running around and screaming. That sounds good, okay.”
I give the two of them major props for being troopers in the face of a shite storm of negative vibe on this flick, while at the same time refusing to pussy out on the tough questions (gotta check out the whole thing for those…so go, GO!).
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