(Q)Do
you often think to your self, "I still cant believe I am imortalized
in motion picture"
(A) I think its good to know that i am in a movie that is part
of the library of great cult horror films
(Q)Would you have liked to play a better part in Bad Taste?
(A) that is easy.....no.......it was fun playing the part i played...and
we went out there and added lines or jokes as we went along.
(Q) How often to you recieve roylaties and how come?
(A) According to a letter from the Film commission...we are supposed
to recieve Royalties from them every 3 months......but sometimes
its a little more Sporadic than that.........and we get royalties
when a company decides they want to show the film or distribute
it in someway......companies only get the chance to show the film
once and or for a certain amount of time...after that if they
wish to show it again they have to re-negotiate the deal again
:))
(Q)You sick of Die Hard fans of Bad Taste?
(A) We are pretty private......so we need to maintain some sort
of security but other than that its ok to talk to people about
the film.......and make new mates as well...:))
(Q) Did you know that Bad Taste would be made over 4 years?
(A) Well.....No not really but we kept going out there to do
filming every sunday......and coming up with more ideas...and
of course we had to do some re-writing.....as some of the guys
had thier lives and such and some got married moved overseas came
back got into the film and so on...:))
(B) With more and more people finding out about BT do you get
recognised on the streets more than ever before?
(A) sometimes i do get recognised by lots of people.....they
come up to me in the street and say "Hey BadTaste"......and
i nod and smile.....but i have more recognition from overseas
which is kinda wierd...:)
(Q) After starring in BT did you have any regrets about certain
scenes when the film was released?
(A) Well...only certain aspects of my performance could have
been done better but people always say...nah its cool....and whats
done is done.....there are no scenes with any context that i look
back now and cringe at as it was a laugh doing the film so i have
fond memories for the whole experience...:)
(Q)What was the most complicated and hardest scene to shoot?
(A) That Question is easy to answer...LOL...the Clifftop scenes
were the hardest to do cos it was so bloody steep and amazingly
high..very tense says they were...:)
(Q)Do the boys from A.I.D.S still keep in touch and meet up?
(A) Yep we all keep in touch.....the main core of the cast i
mean....i talk with Craig Smith(GILES).....Mike Minett(FRANK)......Ken
Hammon(Additional Material & 3rd Class Alien)....all the time...and
i always hook up with Pete Jckson....but during filming of LOTR
its best not to disturb him...but we will speak soon....:))
(Q)If you were given the chance to star in a sequel with the
same $ budget and equipment would you be interested?
(A) Thats a tough one to call...when we did BT back then it was
only going to be a ten minute short that ended up being a 90 min
feature.....+ it was something that Pete wanted to break onto
the world stage which is what happened...;)....getting paid would
be a blessing but i could see filming a sequel the way the first
one was shot would be fun and it would have the same feel as the
original too.....:))
(Q)What was your favorite scene?
(A) well my favourite scene is the one with Derek going over
the cliff which came out cool....filming it was a laugh too....the
dummy that we used was permenantly in the crouching position.and
halfway down the cliff..its frame broke giving the feel that it
was really Derek crashing down there...LOL..:)