Forgot to Get My Face Sanded
I was listening to Troy Foreman interviewing Lance Henriksen this month, and asking him questions from fans. Henriksen expresses himself in a way that I enjoy.
Do you ever go back and watch your own movies?
"I don't watch em. I can't, man. I got in ... today, I got in late for the screening of Aliens; because they planned it that way so ...they didn't want me to have to sit through the whole movie. And when I see myself, I mean it's me, 20 years younger, and I'm looking at it goin', "Oh fuck, I gotta get my face sanded." *interviewer breaks up laughing*
(From what I can tell, he has never had any plastic surgery as he has aged. He did dye his hair for a number of years.)
Strangest fan request ever?
"To sign a woman's breast; that was scary - do you remember that? (Uh huh, replies interviewer.) It made me so nervous. And her husband or her father was there with her, I don't know what he was. I mean, that's a predicament. I'm not a rock star, I mean, I mean, shit. Um, yeah, cause she was gonna get it tattoed, and I ended up signing it and I think she and got it tattoed. Oooooh, ah man. *brightly* Or maybe she made a _stamp_ out of it and emptied my back account. *interviewer breaks up*
On doing the Pumpkinhead movies: He was scheduled to do a Q&A after a screening, and he sat with his agent, elbowing each other during the screening about how hysterically terrible it was. So much did he not want to do the Q&A, because he was gonna have to lie and say something nice about what turned out to be a really terrible movie, that he got down on his hands and knees in the dark, and crawled out of the theater, over the popcorn and spilled soda, out into the lobby and never went back.
Best sentence of the interview. (Henriksen is a potter.):
I actually wanted to put an unfired pot on my window sill in a crate that had glaze on it, but dry glaze? So in case there's a nuclear attack, it would fire the pot.
Interviewer: *cracking up* Holy shit, man. My last and final work.
Lance: Yes. *chortling*
Interviewer: And they just find your charred body with your hands around it.
Lance: Oh, no, they don't find any bodies. We're just water, man, once the water breaks, we're gone.
Interviewer: *cackling helplessly*
Lance: Shit.
Do you ever go back and watch your own movies?
"I don't watch em. I can't, man. I got in ... today, I got in late for the screening of Aliens; because they planned it that way so ...they didn't want me to have to sit through the whole movie. And when I see myself, I mean it's me, 20 years younger, and I'm looking at it goin', "Oh fuck, I gotta get my face sanded." *interviewer breaks up laughing*
(From what I can tell, he has never had any plastic surgery as he has aged. He did dye his hair for a number of years.)
Strangest fan request ever?
"To sign a woman's breast; that was scary - do you remember that? (Uh huh, replies interviewer.) It made me so nervous. And her husband or her father was there with her, I don't know what he was. I mean, that's a predicament. I'm not a rock star, I mean, I mean, shit. Um, yeah, cause she was gonna get it tattoed, and I ended up signing it and I think she and got it tattoed. Oooooh, ah man. *brightly* Or maybe she made a _stamp_ out of it and emptied my back account. *interviewer breaks up*
On doing the Pumpkinhead movies: He was scheduled to do a Q&A after a screening, and he sat with his agent, elbowing each other during the screening about how hysterically terrible it was. So much did he not want to do the Q&A, because he was gonna have to lie and say something nice about what turned out to be a really terrible movie, that he got down on his hands and knees in the dark, and crawled out of the theater, over the popcorn and spilled soda, out into the lobby and never went back.
Best sentence of the interview. (Henriksen is a potter.):
I actually wanted to put an unfired pot on my window sill in a crate that had glaze on it, but dry glaze? So in case there's a nuclear attack, it would fire the pot.
Interviewer: *cracking up* Holy shit, man. My last and final work.
Lance: Yes. *chortling*
Interviewer: And they just find your charred body with your hands around it.
Lance: Oh, no, they don't find any bodies. We're just water, man, once the water breaks, we're gone.
Interviewer: *cackling helplessly*
Lance: Shit.