Hi, Scott. Hi, Jamie, how are you?
Super good. I'll get the unprofessional part of my interview out.
Oh, stop it, OK.
Stop it. I love that.
And by the way, I have one.
It's just so weird if I wear it.
You know what? I never forget your name if you got stinky.
I just I do have that T-shirt and I think it's delightful.
And yet it's I can only wear it at home.
I got I had to get one.
So it's lovely. I love that you have one.
Congratulations on the film. Thank you.
I saw it this morning. Fantastic. Great fun.
It's really, really good.
Again, knocked out the park once again.
I was curious. Obviously, you've gone back and played Laurie [Strode] again.
I wonder when this idea came to you,
would you would you have
had a different reaction if that is said you were making another Halloween?
However, we're rebooting it, and Laurie Strode will be
played by somebody else.
Would you have had
a negative reaction to that because you have such a connection
to her over the years?
If they were going to reboot Halloween and have
Laurie Strode, played by another 60 year old woman,
actually I didn't think of that in my question.
I would have taken to Twitter
and literally all it would have said
was Halloween reboot.
Another 60 year old actress
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I would have expected nothing less.
You know, I that would have been yeah.
No, if if that would have been wacky, if they had told me they were doing
another reboot of Halloween starting in 20, you know, starting
kind of remaking Halloween, of course.
I mean, it's not my movie.
It's it's you know, if they were remaking with a 17 year
old girl or 19 year old girl playing Laurie.
But in a funny way,
I think what the writers have done is they've turned Alsion into Laurie.
Hmm. Yeah, I think Alison and I didn't see it at first.
I've only seen it now that I've seen this new movie.
Alison is smart. She's
you know, she's got a little bit of the feistiness
that Laurie didn't have in the original movie.
But I really think Alison has become the Laurie character.
So I could imagine you could make movies with Alison for a very long time.
But if they had just rebooted the original movie
with an older woman other than me, I would have been like, Oh, I don't think so.
That's strange. And obviously, I mean, the first one hugely successful,
the one that you didn't see, 19, hugely successful.
What would you think it is about David [Gordon Green] and Danny [McBride] and the rest of the guys
that have they've found this great synergy with John [Carpenter]'s original version
and these new ones. Why do you think it is?
Why you think they're perfect for this?
Why have they been so successful with it? Do you think so?
I know it's a quick interview, so I'll be brief.
David is a Southern boy, a film nerd.
He works with his film school friends just like John Carpenter,
Nick Castle and Tommy Wallace were Nick were John Carpenter's best friends.
Michael Simmons, David cinematographer, is his best friend from film school.
They so I think there is great similarity
there, both southern boys there, like Southern gentleman.
There's something prescient
in David Gordon Green and Danny
that they made a movie about female trauma
written in 2016, 2017, shot in 2018,
that came out in October of 2018, that collided with the women's movement,
with the MeToo movement and women all over the world rising up
against the aggressor that had kept them
in the prison of that aggression.
That blew my mind.
How did they know that they were going to make a movie
about a woman who was traumatized for 40 years and fights back
then, I thought , OK, well, they're just, you know, geniuses.
Then they write a movie in 2017.
2018, we shoot it in 2019
About the concentric circles
of a community of rage and violence and trauma.
About a mob rising up,
saying that the system isn't working and we are going to fix it in our own way.
And then around the world, there are uprisings,
there are social justice riots and protests.
There is a attack on the American capital.
People are angry.
People are enraged saying that the system is broken.
So what's up with David and Danny? Seriously.
And if you read the next movie in your mind will explode.
Seriously? Your mind will go like.
Wow. It's. They have.
I truly believe when you go look at these movies 20 years from now,
you will look at this trilogy of movies.
And and it will be a history lesson.
Under the guise of a slasher film,
but it will be the best
history lesson of any movies being made anywhere,
including even documentaries like this, explains it in such an interesting way.
Fascinating to me. Absolutely.
Well, my time my time is up. So thank you for your time.
Well, what I will say what I will say if you've got James Cameron's number.
The world is waiting for a true lies Blu ray.
So if he ever gets time,
we're all waiting for a hide that will know what I'll text him.
He will not text me back, but I'll text him in that way.
You will feel and get me get ordered to do something about it or something.
I don't know. But we are waiting.
By the way, I think you know him well enough.
If you think I can get Arnold to do anything,
then you you are
under some weird delusion and your take.
Good luck with that. Yes, indeed.
Thank you so much. I'm actually a pleasure. Thank you.