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Robert Englund on the New - Comic Book Resources
He's extremely gracious about it...
He's extremely gracious about it...
Robert Englund: Well, they’re shooting as we speak in Chicago and it’s a real interesting cast. The actor playing Freddy, Jackie Earle Haley, I was a big fan of his as far back as a movie called, “Breaking Away,” which he did when he was older after “The Bad News Bears.” I had a friend that starred in that movie and I really liked that film and I thought Jackie was terrific in it. Then more recently, “Little Children” and I thought he was easily the best thing in “Watchmen.” I think because Jackie’s not real big, you know, I like the idea of his kind of energy and size. I always saw Freddy as kind of like an angry junkyard dog. I think there is something about Jackie’s size that will really lend itself to a kind of impishness and that kind of energy that I hope they let him bring to the role.
I hope they don’t completely mirror the original. I think it would be smart of them to maybe change the wardrobe a bit. You know, modify the claw and glove a little perhaps, I think if they’re going to have the fun of remaking it.
Robert Englund played Freddy Kruger in many films over the last 20 years
Clancy Brown (“Highlander,” “Carnivale”), who works with me on “Spectacular Spider-Man,” is in it and Connie Britton from “Friday Night Lights,” I think she’s playing the Mom and I really like her work. The lead boy (Thomas Dekker) is the kid from “The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” a show that I was a big fan of that recently got canceled so I really like the casting choices. Michael Bay is producing and here’s a guy who can do anything he wants. He’s got the number one movie of the summer again and he must have some affection for the franchise or I don’t think he’d put his name on it. I’m not really familiar with the director’s work.
I hope they don’t completely mirror the original. I think it would be smart of them to maybe change the wardrobe a bit. You know, modify the claw and glove a little perhaps, I think if they’re going to have the fun of remaking it.
Robert Englund played Freddy Kruger in many films over the last 20 years
Clancy Brown (“Highlander,” “Carnivale”), who works with me on “Spectacular Spider-Man,” is in it and Connie Britton from “Friday Night Lights,” I think she’s playing the Mom and I really like her work. The lead boy (Thomas Dekker) is the kid from “The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” a show that I was a big fan of that recently got canceled so I really like the casting choices. Michael Bay is producing and here’s a guy who can do anything he wants. He’s got the number one movie of the summer again and he must have some affection for the franchise or I don’t think he’d put his name on it. I’m not really familiar with the director’s work.
But you know I’m getting a little long in the tooth now. I’ve got a full beard of white hair. I look kind of like a cross between George C. Scott, Trevor Howard and Ernest Hemmingway. I’m sort of playing a lot of doctors, scientists, mad scientists, fathers, sheriffs and things like that now. You know you always feel younger than you look and I look myself in the mirror, you know I was in the make-up for so long and I’ve been so busy that all of the sudden one day your face is different than the face you started with. I mean when I went into the make-up of Freddy Kruger I was a boy and I CAME OUT A MAN! It’s great you know I love playing bad fathers, sheriffs, professors, physiologists, mad scientists and everything because they’re really fun. That’s sort of what I’ve become now and it’s great to be able to have that kind of arc to your career but I think we’ve probably surrendered Freddy to a new generation.
This comes with the territory in Hollywood, they remake everything. I mean, I think they remade “A Star Is Born” a half a dozen times and even I’m in one of those. I did the one with Barbara Streisand so this has always been part and parcel of the Hollywood cycling and I wish them well. I’m kind of curious to see it. It will be interesting to see what they do with “V” too.
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