ShockTillYouDrop.com
September 24, 2007
Exclusive Interview: Rogue's Greg McLean
By Ryan Rotten
Shock: Can you talk about some of your casting decisions?
McLean: We were getting really close to shooting and we didn't have
anyone for the role Michael Vartan is in. We had all of these lists
and my agent said I should check out Michael. I hadn't seen much of
his work before. I saw "Alias," I didn't watch the show and I thought
he was a really good actor. I was looking for someone who looked very
American. Michael has that classical, American look. And he's a
really good subtle actor as well. So, they screened "Wolf Creek" for
him and he was like, This is really f**ked up, I love it. He wanted
to do something different and he loved the way we let the actors move
around on set and while we found them with the camera. TV's just
close-up, close-up, close-up. He wanted to do something that was a
bit more free. I didn't have time to listen to anyone complain about
the shoot, so I told him outright, This is gonna be f**kin' hard
work. You're gonna be in the bush. There's gonna be snakes and
crocodiles, are you cool with that? The more I told him he shouldn't
do it because he was gonna die, the more he was open to it. People
always talk shit while making movies because they're f**kin'
assholes, but he was a real trooper and it was a really hard shoot.
He couldn't easily said, You f**ckin Aussie wankers, get me my agent?
© Coming Soon Media, L.P. 2007
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