SPOILER INFO DURING THE INTERVIEW, SO IF YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW, THEN DON’T PRESS PLAY!
Today was The Weinstein Company’s press day for Halloween 2 that is out this Friday, August 28th. Danielle Harris, the oldest cast member from the Halloween Franchise (she was in 4 of them) was paired with the newest one Brea Grant (the only one today who made her debut in H2) and they talked about the scariest Halloween of all 10 of them. The two of them were so cute together, that you have to watch the whole interview above!!!
Danielle Harris is the only actor who was in both the original franchise of Halloween and the ones done by the really freaking cool director Rob Zombie. Danielle played Michael Meyers’ niece, Jamie Lloyd 20 years ago in both Halloween 4 and 5, and now the 32 year old is playing a 19 year old friend of his sister, Laurie Strode in her second RZ Halloween movie. When I asked her about how the two Michael Meyers differ she said, “He’s twice the size. He’s bigger, the knife’s bigger and everything is bigger and badder.” She ain’t kidding, he is a whole lot badder and bigger now as compared to then.
Since Danielle played Jamie Lee Curtis’ daughter in the original Halloween series, do you think she has met the original Laurie Strode, who appeared in Halloween 1, 2 and H20? Nope…:( She told us that she has yet to meet her and would really love to. The closest she got is when her boyfriend worked with her on a movie recently, but forgot to mention to her who he is dating. Bad boyfriend. We have to find a way to get these two together. Now when it comes to the new Laurie Strode played by Scout Taylor-Compton, she told us she is like a little sister and has past the Halloween Jack-O-Lantern, I mean torch to her.
Talking about little…Danielle also let us in a small secret as she says, “He (Rob Zombie) finds the humor in things that are sort of like little subliminal messages.” What are some of the tiny ways he does this in his movies? Well in the last Halloween he gave her cheerleader jacket and on the back of it says Munchkin which is bad enough for the pint-sized actress. But what he also wanted to do was during the sex scene was to have her boyfriend call her Munchie. That would’ve been like totally awesome had she not put a stop to it because she didn’t want that to be her nickname for the rest of her life, which you can’t blame her. So what did he have planned for her in the this Halloween? She says, when Michael Meyer’s mom asks him why he didn’t kill her, he says, “Because she’s just so small.” But that too didn’t make it to the final cut. Danielle wasn’t the only one who endured his little funny subliminal messages, Brea Grant told us because she is a Vegan and she thinks that is why she had to wear a Vegan tattoo on her forearm. Now I have to re-watch both movies to see what other subliminal messages are out in them.
Back to Brea, she also talked to us about if she thinks there is a chance she could return to Heroes because as we all know that being dead doesn’t always mean you stay that way on the show and her answer is adorable as Daphne was/is. We also joked about is it better to have Sylar death or a Michael Meyers one even though she didn’t die by Sylar’s finger and you will have to wait until Friday to see if Michael Meyers does her in.
Both Danielle and Brea are absolutely awesome in Halloween 2 and you have to find out what their fates are in the most terrifying movie of the year (at least) when it comes out on Friday, August 28th.
Before Danielle Harris was playing a teenager in Rob Zombie’s Halloween I and II, she was playing a preteen in the original franchise’s Halloween IV and V. How cute was the 10 year old when she first dealt with Michael Meyers back in 1988?
If the trailer for The Weinstein Company’s H2: Halloween 2 is enough to give me nightmares, I can’t imagine what will happen when I see Rob Zombie’s movie on August 28th. Seriously how awesomely scary does H2 look? Mike Meyers is back and so are sleepless nights for me too.
BTW if you are going to Comic-Con Rob Zombie will be there to preview the movie that picks up where the first one left off!!!
While it makes sense why Rob Zombie who is directing Malcom McDowell in Halloween 2 are pictured together, but can you caption why you think Weird Al is there with them.
Rob Zombie is directing a remake of the 1978 horror classic ‘Halloween’. The film will be released in the US on October 19, 2007 and will be his directorial follow up to 2005’s ‘The Devil’s Rejects’ and 2003’s ‘House of 1000 Corpses’. The former White Zombie singer said that the film would not just be a remake of the original. He told Yahoo: "I basically went back and just came up with the idea of basically – not essentially a remake, but a very extended prequel sort of combined with an update, say, of the first film."You’re starting from scratch but in sort of a more detailed way. That’s the way I thought it would be exciting for fans of the original, because it’s not just the same old thing, and it would be.
I hate artsy horror, horror is not artsy, arsty films are a horror for me to watch. I tried to do either Devil’s or 1000 Corpses, but after 10 minutes I had to shut that crap off. And I watch cheesey awful horror movies.
