Daniel: Oh God, iced water for hours.
Crystal: Well the ice was silicone, I got in as well!
Daniel: You got off lightly though! I did much più of it!
Crystal: I was soaked, drenching in the woods!
Daniel: I was outside in a factory soaked too!
I’m in the wrong job, I’d Amore to do all this!
Daniel: It is great, but at 4 in the morning you’re like uuurgh.
4 in the morning though, you’re in a cranky mood, and I’d imagine licantropi are pretty cranky generally, doesn’t being up at that time help with the crankiness?
Daniel: Yeah, it’s very easy to act at that point. You’re either freezing, o at a heightened state of emotion. It’s a bit method recitazione in a way. Like, I asked them to put real ice in the water. te can’t fake how that feels really. Some of that stuff te can’t fake. When you’re filming, te can do the work, and the work can include staying up all night, being cold for a time. There are stretches of imagination that has to happen. Every now and again it fees true. It needs to be believable, it can’t all be flights of fancy.
How was it working with Russell Mulcahy? I heard he likes his blood?
Crystal: Yeah, Russell loves his blood, he’ll always push away make-up artists and really slap it on.
Daniel: I loved working with Russell, he’s a great director. He’s the most wonderful person. His Film are beautiful.
He’s very visual isn’t he? Some of the transitions in his earlier stuff like Highlander are very cleverly done.
Crystal: Working with him is interesting, because you’ll be like ‘Why are te spending hours filming a doorknob?’ But then you’ll see what he’s trying to do and you’ll be like ‘oooooh OK.’
Daniel: There’s a transition in the first series where a character’s sleeping on a pillow, and he turn over, and he turns into a letto of leaves and the scene switches. He spent hours making that right. I try and shadow his work. He’s someone as a director I’d like to emulate.
Is directing something you’d both like to do?
Daniel: Yeah, definitely. I’d Amore to.
Crystal: I’d like to too, Russell’s someone I’d like to be, because he respects the actor’s process.
He’s not like Hitchcock then, he doesn’t view actors as cattle?
Crystal: Oh no, and I’ve worked with directors like that, where there’s a real disconnect. Sometimes Russell wll be focused on the shot, so even if you’re secondo priority, it can lend itself to some nice acting. He goes through things with the actors, he’ll say the lines with them.
That must make things easier. I remember seeing backstage footage of Lucas doing the stella, star Wars prequels and he just kind of sits with a coffee and says ‘yeah that’s fine.’
Daniel: When are they doing the new stella, star Wars films, successivo anno isn’t it?
Crystal: Yeah I’m gonna be in it, hahaha!
Daniel: Really?
Crystal: Well no, but I’m just putting it out there that I’d like to be in it! I Amore fantasy stuff! I’m in my element here at the expo!
