11/30/2010

Q&A What's the weirdest thing you ever ate?

Q: What was your favorite part about playing Daryl?

A: He's such a mixed guy. Growing up with a brother like Michael Rooker's character, you'd imagine he'd have tons of chicks on his shoulder. I think trying to find a way to be the little brother, but still be a badass in his own way and still show that he cares about his brother. Trying to show that he has feelings and trying to find a likable guy in a racist, you know?


Q: How do you make a racist likable?

A: I was looking for that fine line to get to where I actually join the group and become somebody that they can trust. I'm sort of like this pet snake: somebody that is around all the time and works with all these people, but he might snap at any second. It's like, you have to pick and choose your friends carefully, and sometimes you get stuck with whoever is not bitten. And the best part is that Daryl could go so many different ways since he's such a wild card. He could hook up with someone, he could become a total crazy person or maybe just become a really nice guy.

Q: Between starring in The Boondock Saints and this, you've handled your fair share of weapons on-screen. How did the crossbow compare?

A: Dude, I got to say I love the crossbow. I mean it's just fun. Guns are fun, I can't deny that shooting guns in movies isn't fun. But I had never used a crossbow before, and it's pretty rad.

Q: It's nice and silent.

A: Yeah totally! The only thing is that you have to reload real quickly. What I need is one of those automatic crossbows... if they even make those.

Q: Daryl seems well-suited to the apocalypse. Do you think you'd fare as well?

A: Oh no way dude, I would run and hide. I don't know what I would do. I'd probably just end up stealing a purple Lamborghini and go joy-riding until a walker caught me. I mean, I am pretty tough, but I'm not Daryl tough.



Q: Having starred in Blade II, where do you land on the Vampires vs. Zombies debate?
A: Dude I am so about this show right now, so I say zombies all the way. I have got to say this is one of the most fun jobs I have ever had. Vampires are fun too, and that was a blast, but I am all about the zombies right now.
Q: Having become known for your Irish accent, was it difficult to pull off a Southern one?

A: Actually Irish is harder to pull off. I know southern people and I really like the midwest, so I can tap into that a little bit. It's easier to sound angry with southern than it is Irish. Yelling Irish you can sound like an angry Leprechaun. I think me screaming like I am going to kill you in Irish doesn't work. Plus, it just goes so well with Daryl. It's just something about having a crossbow and having squirrels around your neck and being sweaty down in Atlanta.

Q: Have you ever cooked squirrel stew?

A: Nah man, I live in New York. We just got rats here, no squirrels.



Q: What's the weirdest thing you ever ate?

A: I did this film in China where we shot on top of the Geat Wall. I remember for dinner during the weekend they made this huge feast: We had one plate of frogs that were standing upright, three of them, making a tripod and they were like bloated white blue frogs. The next dish was slugs, just moving with all these sauces. Then the next dish was a giant snake that was coiled and the head was chopped off, and they took a cantaloupe and carved out a little dragon head and stuck it on there. And then another dish came by and it was a soup in a turtle, but the turtle was just freshly killed and sort floating there. I did just eat a taco -- I guess that was pretty weird, too.

Wild start to Career!

Tront Sun Interview


NEW YORK -- Norman Reedus got drunk at a Hollywood party a few years ago. The rest is history.


"I became obnoxiously drunk, and started screaming, up on the second level in a room full of Hollywood big wigs.
I was just, just drunk. And a girl came up to me and said, 'Ever thought of being an actor?' and I was like, get away." But the girl was attractive. "So we all went to this place for pizza, and on a dare I went and met a lady directing a play at the Tiffany Theatre on Sunset.
I got the play. I got an agent. She started sending me on auditions.
"I got Mimic right away." Indeed he did. Reedus, currently the villain in Deuces Wild, a gang tale set in the '50s that opened Friday, also stars in Blade II and has a raft of other movies to his credit, including Gossip, The Beat, Boondock Saints, 8MM, I'm Losing You, Dark Harbor and Preston Tylk. A movie called Six Ways To Sunday opened another chapter in his career -- publicity stills from the film caught Muccia Prada's eye and Reedus became part of an ad campaign that had already featured John Malkovich, Tim Roth, Willem Dafoe, and Joaquin Phoenix.
The Prada campaign was bigger than any of the movies he'd appeared in. "All of sudden I was going in for movies and the casting ladies were saying (he adopts a coy voice) 'Is that a Prada sweater you're wearing?' and all of a sudden I was the Prada model.
Which was cool, because before that I had the one suit that me and my six friends shared."
Will he continue being a model? He laughs. "I'm not very good at it. I don't really have the patience. I'm short and I like beer. I don't like people touching my face. I don't like posing. The thing with acting is you try to ignore the camera. With photography, you have to work the camera. I'm not good at the latter."


Reedus, 32, was born in Florida and grew up mostly in North California.
He says his father is a motivational speaker and his mother sells coffins.
Despite the successful acting career, Reedus is actually -- who knew? -- an artist, and always has been. During his early days in Los Angeles, "I did some shows as a painter and sculptor. I worked at Dr. Carl's Hog Hospital in Venice, working on Harleys. I was skimming the surface, just barely getting by."
His last art show was in Beverly Hills. His last series of paintings was all about what he calls his "obsession with babies." He himself has a boy of two named Mingus, whose mommy is model/photographer Helena Christensen, who has been with Reedus for about four years. They will likely marry this year.
On the acting side, Reedus is next shooting Octane, which he describes as a psychological thriller, in Luxembourg. "I play the father in a family of young runaways, who basically hitchhike, then cause the car to crash, and then do a bunch of bad things.
It's weird," he says, laughing. He also just finished making a film in China. So if he'd never got drunk at that Hollywood party? "I just wanted to make a quiet life for myself as a painter. I was really into it. I was starting to make a name for myself. "My ultimate goal was to move to Montauk and live in some spooky house with a bunch of cats. And just paint."

11/23/2010

Working With the Masters of Horror

Norman is a busy body. And, as he calls himself "artsy fartsy."

Interview from the morning Pandorum was released 
 
 

You've got a movie opening today, congratulations…

Norman Reedus:
That's right, yes, it's exciting.

Have you seen the final product yet?

Reedus:
Yeah, I saw it the other day at 9am - that was brutal waking up that early. I just found out there was an iPhone app for it. [laughs]

You've bounced around to different genre projects. How do you pick the material you're going to commit to and what was it about Pandorum that hooked you?

Reedus:
I like these movies when they're done well. Pandorum, in particular, Christian and I had done a film before called Antibodies. He and I were supposed to do another film, and that one fell apart, which is how he and I met for Antibodies. I just became really good friends with him. I got into a car crash in Berlin and he was by my bedside the whole time translating for me what the German doctors were saying. When he brought up Pandorum, I was like 'F**k yeah, I'll do it.'

What was the project you two were developing that ultimately fell apart?

Reedus:
It was a film - I forget the name of it - people are bought like chess pieces and the higher ups, the wealthy business people, will buy someone, f**k their life up and do what they want. Like play their player against other players. It was a while.
Sounds cool, and I'm sorry to hear about the car wreck.

Reedus:
I have a titanium eye socket and four screws in my nose.

Shit!

Reedus:
Yeah, I got messed up. It happened after Antibodies. After shooting I came home to New York then went back for the Berlin Film Festival and that's when it happened.

Pandorum looks like Christian's most ambitious project yet.

Reedus:
I was completely blown away by the film. It's so well shot and he created this whole world in space. It happens in the far, far future. What I saw on the screen, from what he adapted from the script, I was completely blown away. Every single project he does, he jumps to another level. He's such a good director. The thing with Christian is I have a rapport with him, I just trust him. It comes from just hanging out with him. The first time we met, we just went out all night then went out a lot of other nights. We joke around, Christian's got a dry, German sense of humor. You go on a set there and everyone's speaking a different language. All of the other actors were focusing on what they were doing and I was coming back and forth from the Boondock sequel. Doing both movies at the same time. It was nice to have that trust with Christian. He's like a brother.

What's your part in it all?

Reedus:
I play one of the people that's on the ship when Ben and Dennis wake up. They're trying to get their bearings on who they are, how they got there and what they're supposed to be doing. I'm the first person that alerts them to the dangers on the script. I just saw the trailer for it, and I'm the guy in there being dragged across the floor screaming "Noooo." I'm basically that guy. [laughs]

What's your appeal when it comes to the horror genre?

Reedus:
I like that type of filmmaking. I like the suspense. H.R. Giger is my favorite artists, I just like stuff like that. I just had a photography show in Berlin and it's very similar to this genre. I like to take scary, ugly things and make them pretty. John Carpenter, it was just an awesome guy to hang around. He's got such a cool personality and he's been around. He's seen how the business works and his take on it is awesome. I've always been a fan of the genre.

Well, speaking of Carpenter, you've worked with some big guns - from his to Guillermo Del Toro. What have you taken away from your experiences with these guys?

Reedus:
Guillermo is really amazing to work with. I've done two films with him and I hope we do more together. He's just a little kid. He'd be behind the monitors during a fight sequence [on Blade II] and you'd look over at him and he'd be sitting in the chair going "Pow, pow, pow!" His enthusiasm and drive - he creates these worlds, his enthusiasm is infectious. Same with John. You go to work and you pick up their little nuances, it's an interesting world to be in for a month or two.

You were working with Carpenter not on a feature but a different format, television, what was that like?

Reedus:
You're with him, you're covered in blood. You're hanging out with Udo Kier…it's surreal. It's weird because there are different types of horror movies. Some of them are very subtle and they jump out at you. With John, it's subtle but at the same time…Udo Kier's pulling his entrails out and feeding them into a movie projector. You're thinking, "God, this could be so corny," but when John puts his hands on it, it's not corny. Movies go from bad B or C movies, but John brings them to another level. He has the talent where he could say, "Pull your eyeball out and stick a fork through it," it could be retarded, but you know it's not, because it's him.

It certainly must feel great to keep getting called back by these directors…

Reedus:
It's because I do everything they say. [laughs]

You've stepped behind the camera for a short film - is this paving the way for a feature debut?

Reedus:
I'm actually in pre-production for one right now. We're going through legal mumbo jumbo. It's a film called I Was a White Slave in Harlem based on the book about Margo Howard-Howard. It's a very interesting character piece. I'm in the process of that now. And my short films, they just premiered in Frankfurt as well. If you go to BigBaldHead.com you can get them. I don't know, man. I'm one of those artsy-fartsy guys. [laughs]

I'm sure plenty of our readers are Boondock Saints fans, so I should make sure we cover that. Is there any fear in getting the sequel out there? Or are you pretty confident it's going to knock the fans out of the park?

Reedus:
I'm pretty certain it's going to kick a lot of ass. [laughs] It's a good feeling. It's really Troy Duffy's vision. He's another one of those directors that has his personal style. His personal style is what attracted all of these people. It's bigger and larger and it's going to kick ass.

Are you going to continue the genre streak with a few more pictures?

Reedus:
There's a film called Meskada which is this dark drama. And there are some other things that are coming out or I'm going in on. I did one called Red Canyon I did and that's completely gory and twisted. It's about a brother and sister who go back and try to figure out something about their past. The role I play is insane. The worst person in the world. I wear like this chemical warfare mask and the movie's filled with rape and violence. My mother hates it. [laughs] She lives in Hell's Kitchen now and I remember playing my three short films and she said I ruined Christmas.

one thing is certain:someone will die when Deadline comes



Seth is an ex-con who desires one thing: revenge upon the abusive guard who tortured him in prison. Hollis is a guard who believes he properly delivers "God's justice." Now exonerated, Seth confronts Hollis at a remote diner all the while experiencing harrowing flashbacks from Hollis' treatment. His plan: to execute Hollis at the very time he himself was sentenced to die. As the minutes pass, Seth's purpose, his motives, sense of self, even his reality will be drawn into question. One thing is certain Ð someone will die when the deadline comes.

Starring:
Norman Reedus
Chris Mulkey
Sarah Jones
Phyllis Somerville

He He- sexy girl after watching Daryls dance *^^*



 

11/22/2010

The Dixons are loose canons

SY: You have starred in numerous mainstream films since the ’90s, including ‘8MM,’ ‘Gossip,’ ‘Blade II’ and ‘American Gangster,’ but are most remembered for your lead role as Murphy MacManus in ‘The Boondock Saints’ and its sequel. What is it about this character that resonates with audiences?

NR: I think with Boondock Saints, it sort of became the people’s movie. It was put in a unique category where people spread the word. They passed it to friends and so on. It grew into this huge cult hit just by people liking it and wanting their friends to like it. I think I’m most proud of that. There wasn’t promotion. There wasn’t a release. And it still grew 70 feet tall. It’s an amazing thing, isn’t it?

SY: There are reports that (director and screenwriter) Troy Duffy has expressed interest in making a third ‘Boondocks Saints’ movie. If there is another sequel, what types of conflicts and struggles do you hope to see Murphy and Connor overcome?

NR: I think eventually the brothers have to meet their match you know? Maybe they meet some nice girls, get married, move to Boca Raton, and have some mini Murphs.

SY: I understand that you’ve also joined the hit series ‘The Walking Dead’, which aired this past Sunday. How did you like working with Frank Darabont and the other directors in the series?

NR: The Walking Dead is a dream for me and the cast are some of the coolest people I’ve ever worked for. Frank is a genius. If he says jump, I’ll just jump. I’m really enjoying the show and the people I’m working with; Gale, AMC, the cast, the crew, Greg, everyone. I can’t say it enough and I hope it lasts for years and years.

SY: Can you tell us a bit about your character Daryl Dixon, how did you prepare for the role?

NR: Daryl is half of the brothers Dixon. They are loose canons, Rednecks, dangerous and efficient. Not the friendliest. Maybe Daryl is a bit more than Merle (Rooker is awesome by the way. Love that guy).


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11/18/2010

Video:angels acting like devils and devils acting like angles when the world is ending Zombies aren’t the only enemy

what's your zombie survival skill?

Michael Rooker, Norman Reedus bring it, The Walking Dead

An actor like Michael Rooker is a pot of gold for writers who can serve up the intense physical performer with great lines and scenarios that capitalize on his speciality: Maladjusted white man. Courtesy of AMC 


The Walking Dead: Episode 3, Tell it to the Frogs

 
An actor like Michael Rooker is a pot of gold for writers who can serve up the intense physical performer with great lines and scenarios that capitalize on his speciality: Maladjusted white man. 
Enter Norman Reedus (Boondock Saints) as his equally vile brother Daryl, and you've got yourself some badass bookends ready to upset the new social order of greater Atlanta, post viral apocalypse.

Our lawman Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) has a sweet homecoming in “Tell It To The Frogs” as he and Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) have their reunion, but Lori is guilt-ridden to say the least, and now wary of Shane, who gave her false impressions that Rick was a goner.  

But Shane (Jon Bernthal)  is dripping with sex appeal and is much more juicy to Lori it seems than her steadfast husband Rick.
Such is the mercurial nature of sexual attraction and who turns us on, regardless if it is right or wrong.  Shane's definitely got it going on, and his alpha male nature is catnip for Lori, regardless if Rick is there or not.


In the second episode, Rick is plucked from certain zombie doom by a ragtag group of Atlanta survivors that had been trapped in a department store.  Diversity is displayed in the fold, and the quintessential "white angry man" is represented by Merle Dixon, a sociopath who doesn't play nice in the Crayola coloring box of humanity. Merle is handcuffed to a pipe and left behind in a series of events that has the group making a break out of dead dude central.

Shane has a mixture of emotions when he sees Rick arrive with the group, he missed his pal but the hot sex with Lori has left town (for the moment) and he knows it.

Another "angry white man," bully Ed is the camp's problem man who beats up his wife and is a lazy ass to boot.  Now, Shane’s the perfect regulator to keep Ed in check, as he steps into the role of alpha male for this group sequestered in the mountains. Again, standing up for women and protecting them nets unspoken primal attraction for all the camp females.  Shane's the kind of guy who won't be denied some sexual congress for very long.

The guilt of ditching Merle takes the more principled Rick and equally guilty T-Dog, Glenn, and Daryl on a recon back to Atlanta to reclaim Merle.  Before they do this, Greg Nicotero, the brilliant makeup designer for this series, has a zombie cameo as a walker who is ripping apart an unlucky deer.



But, as the episode ends, the recovery party finds Merle has cut off his hand to get away.  The bad blood continues...

Norman about playing a redneck douchebag

Tell me about your character, Daryl Dixon.


He is one half of the bad-ass Dixons.  If you grew up with Merle as your big brother, you probably grew up with a lot of chips on your shoulders.  He's a wild card - you don't know if he will save you or cut your throat while you sleep.  He ends up fighting for the good team on the way to look for his brother, and you don't know if that alliance will keep, or if he will betray it.

"A good team..." as opposed to siding with the zombies?


Nah, the zombies are everyone's enemy.  The biggest enemy could be the guy standing next to you.  Daryl is a hunter.  You don't know if he is just siding with "the good team" to get his brother back and then betray them, or keep fighting with them.

Is he as big a racist and general douchebag as Merle is?

Not as big a douchebag, but you grow up with Merle as your older brother, and you start to emulate him. You love him for all his faults, and it hurts you to see him in trouble.  Daryl seems to be getting along well with the rest of the group, so I don't see him as being as big a douchebag.

How did you get the role?

I did the pilot season in LA for the first time.  I read a bunch of pilots, and this was the only one I really wanted to do.  It was the best by far.  I actually read for Merle's part at first, but then the Daryl role opened up.  I heard Frank Darabont created this character from scratch - he wasn't in the comic book.  I did cartwheels to get this role.  I basically slept with Frank to get this role [laughs].

Were you familiar with the comic before you took the role?

I knew of the comic book, and had read a couple issues, but I didn't realize how in-depth it got with the characters.  I wasn't an avid comic book reader until I got this part, and then I really boned up on the series.  It is so well-written, and so real.  I can really see why Frank wanted to make this into a TV show.  Every character could be their own comic book.


The show comes across as very real.

Reading the pilot, I realized it had very little to do with zombies. It was about these people, what it takes to "man up," so to speak.  That's really what drew me to it.  I think if you have corny zombies, you are dead in the water.  Luckily we have Greg Nicotero - he's a rock star.

Do the zombies ever play pranks on the cast, or are you kind of used to seeing them out and about?
 
My first day on set, I had been there for thirty minutes, when this zombie approached me and said, "Hi, I want to introduce myself: I'm Greg Nicotero."  He was a zombie, and he looked fucking insane.  He's sitting there, eating a deer, with guts hanging out of his mouth.  I thought to myself, "Where the hell am I?  This is awesome!"

The feel on set, between takes - is it lighthearted and playful, or do you guys stay in character?

I want to give a shout out to San Pellegrino time.  That's an inside joke we have on set.  After we do a really tough scene, and it is 120 degrees in Atlanta - they really do beat the crap out of you on this set - we all sit around and look at each other and say, "It's San Pellegrino time."  That means it is time for a proper San Pellegrino in the shade.  Between takes, you are kind of fighting for survival between takes, so it works.

If the zombie apocalypse were to hit for real, what would you do?

I'd probably break into a Lamborghini dealership, steal a purple Lamborghini, and drive around like a maniac.  Naked.  Maybe I'd start burning things to the ground - just go insane.  Nah, I'd probably just curl up in a corner and cry.  I'm just trying to sound tough.  But I would like to do crazy things.  As long as I was naked.

Are you a zombie fan?

I love zombie movies.  I'm also really into realistic drama, which is what I feel this show is closer to. It has a lot to do with zombies, but it has more to do with human interactions.  But zombies are fun.

What is coming up for you?


I have a film called The Conspirator, directed by Robert Redford, which is about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln [due out in Spring 2011]. Other than that, I'm just going to stay off the Twinkies so I am ready to play second season.

So you are coming back for season two?

Yeah.  Oh yeah.


Where do you think your character will go?

I think he is going to become a big asset to the survivors.  There will be a conflict coming up that I can't talk about, but then he will prove his weight.  Others will see a level of trust in him.  He's a good guy to have on your team.  Hopefully we will get into the mind of Daryl a little more.  Different shades of redneck.

11/09/2010

Epoch Times: DEADLINE Norman Reedus hauntingly intense as damaged Seth

Shorts are often pigeonholed by the uncharitable as starter films with poor production values—sometimes not without justification. 
However, Joseph Bakhash’s Deadline has the look and feel of a full Hollywood studio production with a relatively big-name cast to match. 
It also happens to be the darkest short in the Tribeca Film Festival’s “Wake-Up Call” short film program.

Seth has been exonerated, but mentally he is still behind bars, enduring the unending abuse from Hollis, a particularly vicious prison guard. 
As he orders a late dinner-early breakfast from a pretty waitress, he repeatedly flashes back to his recent prison ordeal. 
Then Hollis walks in, clearly a regular customer at the late-night diner.
It seems Seth is out for some closure, but things are not what they appear.  
Deadline follows in the Rod Serling tradition ending with a surprising dark revelation. 
Frankly, the twist ending might be best suited to shorter formats if for no other reason because audiences simply do not have as much time to guess the big twist.

Norman Reedus, the indie star of Boondock Saints, is hauntingly intense as the damaged Seth. 
Chris Mulkey, recognizable as Madchen Amick’s abusive husband in Twin Peaks and an uncharacteristically sympathetic recurring role on the current season of “24,” is a menacingly effective presence as Hollis.

Deadline has a great look thanks to the striking use of light and darkness by cinematographer Luke Geissbuhler (whose credits include Borat and Helvetica). 
Bakhash keeps it tightly focused, steadily building the tension and leading viewers exactly where he intends. 
Well-acted and impressively produced, Deadline is a dark, but memorable short film 

11/05/2010

SIX WAYS TO SUNDAY

Norman Reedus and Debbie Harry are shere brilliant at the Adaptation of the Book "Portrait of a young man drowning" : 
Six Ways to Sunday
 
This movie has a bit from everything:
 At times, it's funny, smart, charming, other times, it's a little bit odd. 

It's a completely unique and unusual entry in the thriller category!
 
Norman Reedus is, as always, awesome ! 

But Debbie Harry is brilliant, too.
These both are the perfect cast/team for this story 



Plot:

Eighteen-year old Harry Odum (Norman Reedus) has an unnaturally close relationship with his mother (Debbie Harry).
But her possessive hold is tested when Harry shows promise as a henchman for the local mob.
What starts with Harry's brutal pummeling of a stripclub owner ends up with his grooming for the higher ranks of the mob "family" that appreciates his lethal talents.
When love finally triumphs over all, there's bound to be a few bodybags in this outrageous black comedy with a disturbing subtext and fine, quirky performances.

Daryl: I kind of fight for the other team.. The Walking Dead

What about the rest of the season?
It only gets better—and as we learned from redneck racist Merle (Michael Rooker), the zombies aren’t the only baddies on The Walking Dead. Norman Reedus, who plays Merle’s equally nasty brother Daryl, told us, “I kind of fight for the other team a little bit”—especially after he sees what happened to Merle on that rooftop in episode three’s cliffhanger. (It’s even worse than you think.)


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