Thank you very much for coming.
My pleasure.
We doing name that tune with max a couple of weeks ago.
Was that really the love theme from Mannix?
Oh yeah. We actually,
we actually had the love thing from Mannix on the show.
That was just for you, man.
So let me ask you right off the top of that.
We have you here on the Halloween show because you are
Freddy Kruger. This is,
it seemed like a very appropriate person to have on tonight
show
my time of year, the gigs are great.
Oh yeah. This, this,
this must have a significance for you Halloween.
Well, I Actually,
I actually did what Andy's doing tonight.
A couple of years.
Ago, you harass people in a crowd.
I harass people in a crowd, Yes. I know I was down there.
I was sort of like the unofficial grand Marshall of the
Greenwich village parade.
So Andy's on the remote from hell.
Really? You were down there in the Grinch.
I mean, cause it, it looks looks a little chaotic.
I was down there Freddy.
You were down there as Freddy?
They must've ripped your head off.
It was great.
I had a giant overcoat on, and I sort of like just sort of
flashed people, you know?
And then I was like Freddy underneath, you know.
Oh, you had something on underneath.
But it was strange. Yeah.
After a while there are so many people came from the,
from the sides of the road and started to follow our part of
the parade that we just decided it was getting a little
unruly.
And so we kind of went to the car and as we left the parade
about a third of the parade went with us. So.
They started following you.
It's big dog leg, you know, someone in Washington square.
So they ended up in your apartment. - Yes
You were like using the bathroom and you notice there were
600 people with you.
This whole other parade going uptown, yeah.
So what I know you're come out here.
You're not in the Freddie garb,
but I do want to ask you about the hand,
the special prosthetic you must,
everyone must ask you about the Freddy hands.
they love the hand.
There's the old hand from nightmares one through six.
And of course there's the new hand from west Craven's new
nightmare, which is literally
Is it diesel powered?
yes it is.
It's like more power. It has,
it comes out of the bone actually now comes out of the bone,
the new and improved Freddy
The new and improved Freddy.
But it's, you know, it's fun around the craft service table,
you know,
like slice and dice and get those cheese balls with finesse.
[Laughs]
Well, let me ask you,
but I would think I would be tempted if I got to strap on
the Freddy hands to walk off the set with them.
I really would. I would.
Do you ever take it?
Do you ever take those hands out in the street in your
normal life and ?
No you gotta be careful, you know, back on the first one,
I scared a poor old gentleman in a Thai restaurant to death
wearing the Freddy makeup and the hand,
everything we just walked in one day, Johnny Depp and I,
and a bunch of other people from the movie I'm name
dropping. But we went to this Thai restaurant.
We were sick and tired of like the over salted catered food.
And we went across the street,
and this whole guy is working in there
and he probably just got off the boat and he saw me
come in door, pushed open the door,
everything went flying. And then a couple of weeks later,
the guys all talk to me and I was trying to make last call.
Not one in the morning. [Chuckles]
No. I said,
we'll take the makeup on after two in the morning,
let's let's go out and get a beer.
And we went out and we had a car and these guys wanted to
troll a bit and we, we scared some people.
So I've learned my lesson. Not just gotta be careful.
You don't want to surprise people as Freddy coming out of
the dark.
No.
I wouldn't think so. But do people actually,
do people take you to, to be a creepy guy in your,
in your personal life?
Do they associate with you and Freddy and say, you know,
I know exactly who you were, but you creep me out.
Not so much creep me out. I mean, I don't know.
I think, I think parents, yeah.
Parents think I've sort of contributed to the delinquency of
this nation, you know, but no kids is great.
It's great. I mean like the skateboarders,
which is sort of like my target demographic, they like me.
I get, you know, like, Hey yo fridge, you know.
Skateboarders just love you everywhere.
They love me.
All right. Now you you see,
can you do anything scary for us right now? I mean,
you seem very reasonable. You're chatting away,
but it is a Halloween show. [Crowd cheers]
Come on just a little something scary.
Oh, Max. Play that fucking music white boy
[Laughs]
[Band Music]
Well, that was certainly scary for our censor.
[Laughs]
Ah.
You ah,
yeah there's some guys at NBC right now with white hair,
thanks to you.
That'll pass. Thank you very much.
All right, listen, we're going to take a quick break.
All right.
We're going to go and edit that part out of the show and
we'll be right back with more Robert England and just a
second.