The worst part of the show, for me, because it was like 40-something degrees that night and it was late and they put on the hoses and there's no warm water coming out of the hose. I wish I would have let the stunt guy do the first scene where it's in the rain and I'm jumping up on the car so I didn't have to freeze to death. As he recalled that decision, the regret of doing so came through in the following thoughts: Apparently, according to his discussion with the hosts of The Thing with Two Heads' video podcast, Nick Castle did his own stunts in the scene involving Michael’s big escape from Smith’s Grove Sanitarium. The one moment that Castle was particularly not fond of is, surprisingly, the rainy night that starts the action within Halloween’s insidious plot. And recently Castle detailed "the worst part"of filming the iconic classic. Presenting the formidable physical presence of The Shape that would hunt down Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode for one fateful night in 1978, Castle apparently had some pretty horrible moments while filming that iconic genre classic. That’s especially true when you learn about some of the experiences the actor who brought him to life in John Carpenter’s Halloween, horror legend Nick Castle, went through. “There's the sense that 'Aw, (no), that's gonna be me?' And then there's the other side: I'm a horror icon, so that's not so bad.It's a difficult job bringing to life a hulking monster like Halloween's Michael Myers. “I know it will be the thing that'll be my epitaph: They won't say anything about my movies, I'll be this guy in a rubber mask,” Castle quips. Now retired, he spends a lot of time playing with his grandkids (“I have a new generation to bother”) and frequents the horror convention circuit with fellow luminaries like Robert Englund (aka Freddy Krueger) and Linda Blair (Regan from “The Exorcist”). Related: New 'Halloween' allowed director David Gordon Green to exorcise childhood 'demons' More: Michael Myers' chilling 'Halloween' movie reboot theme song debuts Other “Halloween” films followed his first, but Castle instead embarked on a busy directing career that included the 1984 sci-fi cult film “The Last Starfighter,” 1986 family fantasy “The Boy Who Could Fly” and 1996 romantic comedy “Mr. It's a brutal Michael.”Īlthough Castle misses the old Michael mask (“This one was tighter, so it wasn't as comfortable”), he didn’t have trouble leaving the character behind. I asked him because I thought, ‘Well, that would throw us off a little bit in terms of who is this masked man?’ ”Ĭomparing Castle's Michael to Courtney’s 2018 version, “I was more like a panther and he's more like a lion,” says Castle, who also did a lot of the character’s heavy breathing in post-production for Green's "Halloween." Courtney’s a bigger guy – he’s 6-foot-3, Castle is 5-foot-11 – and “did a really good job. I can't explain it, but he has a unique walk. “She said, 'Is this nuts or what?!’ So that was kind of what it felt like: What the hell, this is going on again 40 years later?”Ĭarpenter insists there was some reasoning on his part: “The thing about Nick was, his father was a choreographer and Nick has this kind of grace about him. “It has all kinds of connotations, I think,” says Castle, who gave Curtis “a big hug” when they saw each other on the South Carolina set. She shoots the window out, but it turns out she just saw his reflection in a mirror, which shatters. While actor/stuntman James Jude Courtney is the main man in the mask now, handling the role's physical rigors, Castle cameos as “The Shape” (how Michael was billed in the 1978 film’s credits) in a crucial scene where Laurie finally sees him again in an upstairs window, on the prowl. Director David Gordon Green’s sequel, which picks up four decades after Carpenter's original film (and disregards the installments in between), sends Myers on another murder spree through suburbia, though former baby sitter Laurie Strode (Curtis) has been preparing for his return. One rubber mask later, he’s making scary-flick history stalking Jamie Lee Curtis with a large kitchen knife as serial-killing psycho Michael Myers.īut retirement age can’t keep the original Michael down: Castle, now 71, puts on the mask one more time in the new “Halloween” (in theaters Oct. Nick Castle’s side career of being a part-time horror-movie icon comes down to a whim from 40 years ago.Īll he really wanted to do was hang out with his old USC film-school classmate, John Carpenter, on the set of his future classic “Halloween” and “demystify the experience" as an aspiring director, Castle says. Watch Video: 'Halloween' sequel brings back scary memories
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