Venice Magazine’s Interview

Venice: Congratulations on another terrific season of “Supernatural” as well as My Blood Valentine 3D. One thing that impressed me about the movie was that the 3D effects aren’t all about things coming directly right at you.
Jensen Ackles: You never want to get to gimmicky. I remember talking to the director and one of the first calls we had he was very clear how this was going to go. He didn’t want to make it gimmicky but he definitely wanted to pay homage to the old throwback horror movies and include some of those great clichés that would honor them.

I love how everything is right in front of you, almost like you can reach out and touch everything. It just has to be the wave of the future.
I’m surprised it has taken this long to catch on. I think with the new technology… I can’t event fathom what i’ts going to be like in the future.

Honestly, when you first heard about this project did you ever think, “Do we really need to remake this movie?”
Well, it’s been something I’ve just vocalized to my friends, and some of my peers. ‘Geez, are we that hard up for original ideas these days that we continue to do remakes or steal ideas or shows from other countries? Is the writing that lackluster these days?’ But when you think about it, and what really hook, line, and sinkered me with this was the fact that it had a cult following but it wasn’t a huge, huge movie. My Bloody Valentine was not a blockbuster, smash hit. It wasn’t like a Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm Street.

I’m old and I’m a horror guy, but who else remembers the original?
Right, it’s a select few that latched onto those unique little horror movies, and this is one of those. And I think that was unique in itself, and throwing all this modern technology onto it and using the 3D format, I was interested from the get-go.

There’s a scene at the hospital where your character says he’s not selling the mine and Kerr Smith pops out from behind a curtain and everyone laughs because it’s so ridiculous.
And even in the very beginning when Tom Atkins turns and he’s framed with the heart on the window, there’s just the right amount of mozzarella shredded over the movie that people will understand that it’s not trying to take itself too seriously and that it’s a nice throwback movie done in a way where you can sit back and enjoy it. It’s like a ride.

Probably because you’re in it, but when your character first arrives back in town you can’t help but think this is a job for the Winchester brothers.
Yeah. [laughs]

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1/Feb/2009 Sílvia Tavares Jose Martinez, Venice Magazine
Acting, Interests, My Bloody Valentine, Season 4, Supernatural
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