![]() ![]() If I missed the net and went around the river’s bend, I’d hit a water processing plant. ![]() I also had to grab a safety net on the other side of the river and pull myself out. The mask was stuck to my face, and I couldn’t get the water out. That river was full of melted snow, so it was maybe 30 degrees. Shanks: The most physically demanding scene was when Michael gets blown out of the mine shaft, and I fall into the river, at the beginning of the film. By Ryan Green/©Universal Pictures/Everett Collection. Jamie Lee Curtis speaks to director David Gordon Green on the 2018 set of Halloween. Stunt coordinators like Warlock and Donna Keegan (from Halloween H20) work to ensure their Michaels have what they need to safely hit their marks-but human actors aren’t always as durable as the character they’re playing. Stuntwork is key to Michael’s enduring appeal in most Halloween films, the masked villain appears to be just about indestructible. The killing scenes weren’t scary for me, but they left me alone in that house for that take, and I was afraid of the dark. In the moment, it’s good that she was scared, I guess!ĭaeg Faerch, Young Michael, Halloween (2007): There’s that one shot right before I kill, and the camera is outside the house looking in. Tyler Mane, Adult Michael, Halloween (2007) and Halloween II (2009): You mean Jenny Gregg Stewart from the first movie? I don’t remember that! We always rehearse the scenes several times before shooting, and I only put the mask on at the very last minute. When he came smashing through the door, her scream was completely genuine. But Tyler’s big, and I don’t know if she had seen his mask yet. Everybody knew what was going to happen, because the scene was in the script. Zombie: There’s a scene, in the first remake, where Michael bursts through the door. As I was stalking my victims, I tilted my head down slightly, locked onto them, and did a deep, guttural growl. To his credit, the sound guy picked up on my growling and subtly layered it into the final edit. I don’t believe that any of my castmates ever picked up on that, but it lent a certain primal energy to each take. You’re moving smoothly through the water you’re not getting pushed through it.Ĭhris Durand, Michael Myers, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998): Think about how a tiger will lock eyes on its prey with a singular focus. His one direction was, “I want you to get up and walk like wood through water.” I did, and he said, “Perfect, you got it.” I interpreted that direction as: you’re rigid, but you’re still adapting to the water. If I wasn’t doing it right, you should have told me.ĭon Shanks, Michael Myers, Halloween 5 (1989): I went in to meet with. Debra Hill was there every day, and Debra never said, “Can you make the walk a little faster, Dick?” or “Can you make your movements a little swifter?” Years later, in an interview, she said, “Dick Warlock never got the walk down.” Well, give me a break. ![]() Here, seven actors who have played Michael open up about scaring children, walking like wood through water, and setting themselves on fire-all in the name of Halloween.ĭick Warlock, Michael Myers, Halloween II (1981): never gave me any instruction on how to play -nothing at all about the walk. Michael Myers is, admittedly, a bit of a cipher in an interview, 2007 Halloween-remake director Rob Zombie aptly described the part as “a lead character whose face you never see, and who never says anything.” But each man who’s played him has brought something unique to the role. Loomis put it in the original film) to a recognizably human stain on real, flesh-and-blood survivors like Loomis and Laurie Strode ( Jamie Lee Curtis), Michael’s sister-the P.T.S.D.-stricken star of David Gordon Green’s 2018 Halloween, which comes to theaters October 19. But all managed to successfully disappear into the part, a role that has transformed over the decades (and 11 films) from the embodiment of “pure evil” (as Donald Pleasence’s paranoid Dr. Their backgrounds range from stunt coordinator ( Dick Warlock, of Halloween II) to professional wrestler (6-foot-8-inch Tyler Mane, Adult Michael in the 20 Halloween remakes) to Stella Adler Studio-trained actor ( James Jude Courtney, of this year’s Halloween sequel). Castle had no formal training as an actor, but neither did many of his successors-a little less than a dozen actors over the past 40 years. The first man to play masked killer Michael Myers-the real star of the Halloween franchise-was Nick Castle, who went to college and played in a band with Halloween director and co-writer John Carpenter. ![]()
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