How Lachlan Watson Brought Glen and Glenda Back to Life in Chucky
Only a skilled actor can play two people. But it takes someone as talented as Lachlan Watson to play two people who used to be one doll. https://t.co/QIeOLHETMU
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On meeting Chucky creator Don Mancini: "I did a virtual Comic-Con panel about trans representation in horror a couple of years ago, where I was speaking on behalf of myself and my character on Sabrina, and Don Mancini was speaking on behalf of Chucky and by proxy Glen and Glenda. He told me that he would love to work with me and that I should reach out to him sometime. I didn’t think anything would ever come of it. But the more I talked to him about Chucky, the more I realized that, according to him, that moment was a big turning point, because he saw me and he saw Glen and Glenda personified, and it kind of snowballed from there."
On filming both characters at once: "The way that it worked was, for whichever shots both Glen and Glenda were going to be in, they would set the camera, and they would shoot it as Glenda. And then no one would touch that camera. And then I would leave for an hour and a half, put a wig on, change the costume, and come back. Then I would record in an empty room with a microphone and a speaker in my ear repeating my own lines that I just recorded back to me."
On describing Glen and Glenda: "In the beginning, everyone, including myself, was describing Glen and Glenda as 'masculine' and 'feminine.' And that was really the only verbiage that people would use to describe them. Having been an out nonbinary person living pretty much free of those terms for the last four or five years of my life, that was jarring... I was like, 'Okay, guys, I figured this is the problem. We can’t use these [terms]. This wordage’s outdated and it doesn’t help anybody. We have to figure out ways to shift the language to fit who these characters are.' Because both Glen and Glenda have both the masculine and the feminine, and that was very purposeful by me. And Don and I wanted Glen and Glenda to not be one or the other. We wanted them to be their unique mix, like people are, and like trans people are... Eventually, we threw out [the terms 'masculine' and 'feminine'], and I came up with different ways to describe them, which is that Glenda is more 'glam' and Glen is more 'grunge.'