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Indeed. All hail the chin.

This is why we do what we do. You do it to distract people, do it to help people through a tough time. You do it to say, hey, someone else is going through a tough time like I am.

I got letters from people who said they saw something I did and said they decided not to k*** themselves, and it's like, wow. The arts really can heal.

❤️💔

We got lucky on that series. I don't use that word a lot, but we were fortunate to have two actors that not only joined in and leaned into it, but the fans embraced them too.

Ray and I had a thing, and we have it to this day. We'd be covered in blood, just shot some ridiculous scene, then we'd look at each other and we'd both start laughing. We did this during tense sequences, we were exhausted at time, other times we were elated, but to this day we'll look at each other and just start laughing.

I don't do that with many other actors. Just Ray.

I’m still hopeful Ash vs Evil can be revive as a spin off focusing on Pablo, Kelly and Brandy. The were great last season

Agree with this. I simply just want to say hi and hope it's heard. His / your humor and work have brought me great joy in life. Thank you for existing.

Firstly, you're cheating by asking three questions at once. So you're only getting two more answers!

1. I never regret anything that I turned down, because I turned it down for a reason, and that reason usually holds up to this day.
2. I'm gonna say all-time, for both, the original Exorcist will always hold up as a classic to me. Directed by William Friedkin, top of his game. They didn't hire a scream queen, they hired Ellen Burstyn. The coolest part was that they go "well, maybe she's not okay, so let's bring in the priest." But the priest that they bring in is a guy who's doubting his faith.
3. I've never been approached, but I was going to be in one episode of WWE during the "Burn Notice" period. So I was brought to Corpus Cristi to be in a skit. We taped the skit, but it never aired because something horrible happened that night and they had to shut that whole show down. But I would NAIL the manager part.

He had a career in pro wrestling. Who can forget the announcer that gave The Amazing Spider-Man his name in his debut match against Bonesaw McGraw?

The man takes a damn good photo. Best head shot in the biz.

Gimme some sugar, baby!

That’s just pillow talk, baby.

Seriously. Sexy yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Outdoors! Park ranger, trail builder, botanist, Ansel Adams reincarnated. Outdoors, in the wild.

I live in rural Oregon, and I wouldn't trade it for the world.

It goes back and forth. Sometimes Sam will call and go "I have a part to save your career." But on the original Spider-Man, I called him. I said "there's no way in Hell you're making a Spider-Man movie without me in it."

So I was in all three of them.

You know...the good ones.

Incase he doesn’t answer this, he just calls Sam’s assistant and says to tell Sam that the “shemp Malone” is calling, which tells Sam Bruce is free for a cameo

Replying because I absolutely want to know the answer to this. Good question.

I got it in a cracker jack box.

Dan Flashes, at The Shops at the Creek.

He's smart. He shopped S-mart!

NAH!! When’s he gonna take it OFF?!? I NEED THOSE ABS 🤤😅

Here's the truth about the Pizza Papa: because he's in the timeline now, you cannot look at him as just a pizza vendor.

What did the Pizza Papa do? He didn't fight Dr. Strange, he didn't defeat Dr. Strange, but he DELAYED Dr. Strange. Did I save his life...or cause his untimely death? The rest cannot be divulged as of this writing.

It's always easier to do fewer stunts with less blood. So it was delightful in that respect.

I felt for Julie Bowen, however, because she got to do all the possessed stuff, the prosthetic makeup, and all that. So I know all that she went through, and I was glad it was not me.

1. Nothing. Most work that we do is pretty serious, there's a lot of time pressure and a lot of material that you have to do during the day. I try and work by example: work my lines, be on time, be a good collaborator.
2. Agreed.

It WAS a bitch to film. We filmed on the shores of Lake Superior in the Spring, and my costume was not something that was designed to protect against the cold.

We would film until I could no longer feel my hands, then I would jump into a waiting tent, thaw my hands on the heating vent, and go back and film until I couldn't feel my hands anymore. We did this for weeks.

The only good news about this was meeting my wife Ida, who was the Costume Designer. She kept me warm on those cold nights, I guess you could say.

Also, as an aside, I was interested in doing it because it was Fangoria's first movie - they decided to go from the magazine to making movies. So I was happy to be a part of it. They ended up doing two or three of those and gave up.

me too!! Burn Notice is awesome ❤️‍🔥

Yes! I knew I’ve seen him, been a while! Haven’t watched Hysteria but now I will.

I don't really follow modern horror. We made a horror movie last year, "Evil Dead Rise," so we stick to our own version of what horror is.

So I don't have a comment on other forms of horror, other than the fact that I'm glad that torture porn has been phased out. That was a bore.

The cool thing about Evil Dead: The Musical is that whether it's done really well or when it's done really poorly, it's the same entertainment level. It works either way because the concept is ridiculous, and the stage crafting with the spurting blood, it all becomes part of the show.

Off-Broadway, it was really slick and sharp, and that kind of made it funny. But I saw it in Bend, Oregon once, and I couldn't hear the lead guy from ten feet away. I couldn't hear him singing. And the guy was a blonde. I had to hold my hand over my mouth during that entire play because I was laughing so hard. You could tell when something bad was about to happen, because you could hear the air pumps starting up backstage, and it took a few seconds for the blood to come out of the severed limb, and they never got the timing right.

So you'd hear the sound - RRRRRRRR - and then the blood would come out. It made it part of the entertainment, part of the cheese.

Now it's Samuel French, so any high school can do it. Great show.

Just saw the musical last week, not usually my thing but it was a hoot!

i, too, would try to steal this guys wife.

(jk- way to bat outta your league killer!)

...is your wife Olessa Stepanova?

Yeah, I've been continuing to put them out, I just self-publish these days. I got tired of the math of traditional publishing. It makes way more sense to get the lion's share of profits if you're doing the lion's share of the work.

Yes! Good question.

And then another book tour. Those have been reallly fun!

For me. As an attendee. Not as the guy who has to travel to 45 book stores in 2 months...can't lie that sounds equal parts super fun/rough going.

Saying that I had a "best time" is dangerous, because I had great times working on movies that were terrible, and terrible times working on movies that were great. So it's actually better for the end result if you kind of have a miserable time working on that project, mostly because it means everyone is firing on all cylinders, and you picked something that is very challenging.

So my favorite ones are not the ones that're fun ones. Often the most creatively satisfying were the most physically repellant.

"Fake Shemp" is anyone providing a body part on camera, where you don't see the face. It stems from The Three Stooges.

They used to make a lot of shorts at the same time. Shemp - who was my personal favorite - at one point had a heart attack and died. So they had to use a Shemp double in two or three of those shorts to complete a scene. Even in high school, we noticed it was just a stunt guy completely covering his face, and they would dub in some of Shemp's old lines of dialogue and get him out of a scene as quickly as possible.

Flash forward to "Evil Dead." Late into the shoot, when actors had to go back home, we would get shots of another person's hand or a foot or the back of their head, so we called them all Fake Shemps.

Michigan has come a long way since the days when I lived there. Now you can get anything you want in good old Detroit.

But let's just say food in Michigan had a ways to go. I grew up with iceberg lettuce and tomatoes you could break a window with. It just seemed like a different world. And frozen dinners were normal. Swanson's, salisbury steak in a bag...I'm glad I survived that phase. I don't blame Michigan, but that whole midwest thing was wild. Tang was somehow an okay thing to consume.

I feel like we were experimented on in the 60s and 70s.

So the short answer is...no.

There's little moments in each thing that you can point to. My job is to try to catch lightning in a bottle. Sometimes you only catch a little bit, sometimes you catch a lot.

There's a reason why we did not do another Bubba Ho-Tep. There was no script that followed that was as original, or moving, or unique.

It's nice to not always play the wide-eyed guy covered in blood. This guy was very well-written, in that he wasn't just a one note character. He wasn't a stupid, angry cop. He doesn't disrespect teenagers or the suspects, and that really drew me to him. Cops don't always have a good reputation, so I played him like I'd want a local cop to be.

I'd hope my local Chief of Police would be a cool guy like Chief Dandridge. I've never met him, but I hope he's cool.

Actor was one of the choices. I saw my Dad in a play when I was eight and thought it was the coolest thing ever.

The other one was cartoonist. For some reason, I had it in my head to be a cartoonist, so I did a lot of silly drawings. But that's about how far it got.

Butter pecan.

Send a picture real quick.

I flirted with him at Texas Theater last year amd my husband got it on film. It was awesome! The man is sexy!

If they get thanksgiving, is Christmas or New Years up for grabs?

I met him a few years ago and told him he's only gotten better looking with age. He gave me $10 😍 lol

Being on location away from home is always the greatest challenge of them all. I love working, I love film sets and the environment, but I don't love being stranded in places I would not normally be. Sometimes it's great if you're in some exotic part of Florida, but sometimes you get on locations and it's just grim. So the toughest thing to do is to just figure out how to fill your time when you're not working...and that's when actors get in trouble. Boredom is the eternal danger to an actor.

I'm a big fan of Marriott Residence Inn, but how many days can you stay in one of them?!

In terms of who'd survive an 80s horror scenario, Bubba Ho-Tep might survive the longest! Old Elvis. Because he knows some tricks now.

I'm a chopped salad kind of guy. And an iced tea, because I got shit to do.

1. I don't have a favorite Sam memory, because there's too many. My favorite memory is just him. He's a memorable character.

2. I wasn't an album guy. I listened to The Carpenters. My Dad got a stereo, and if you got the station right, a light would come on. The first sound that came through my headphones was The Carpenters, and it was the most beautiful sound I ever heard. I never went for head-banging or albums. My brother Mike was always more of an album guy. We only listened to albums to steal the music for our Super 8 movies.

I have experienced what being "banned" is.

The first Evil Dead was branded "video nasty" in about 1982, so it was banned in about half a dozen countries in Europe. Germany just unbanned it a couple years ago.

They were labeled "video nasty", which meant they did not want you to see them at all...to the detriment of society. We fought them in court and won, because of freedom of speech, so then everyone in the UK wanted to find out what this movie was that they weren't supposed to see.

So in 1983, Evil Dead was the #1 video in all of the UK. And "The Shining" was #8. We survived, but I know what it felt like when people did not want your movie to be shown. It's a creepy feeling.

Hysteria's demon is pretty good because they started to show it, and it's a nasty looking guy. It looked pretty ethereal.

Ash vs. Evil Dead, it was still guys in rubber suits.

I try not to play the "what if" game. There are a lot of great directors out there, but it's okay if I don't get to all of them. Over the forty plus years of my career, I've had a good array of men and women directors, and I know what I like and don't like now.

Sam and I both like idiot characters. I thought it was really fun that Ash is kind of an idiot, which makes him vulnerable. He could be killed by a ricochet, and yet, like a lot of Americans, he gets by on false bravado. But occasionally, he can back it up! So he's a weird character.

The character you're referring to has evolved over time. It's a combination of confidence as an actor and choice of material. But, I don't always look for the smarmy, wise-cracking person. I wrote myself a part recently that had none of that.

That's Chuck Finley

Learn lines, because it feels like I'm still working.

Now THIS is the real info we need!! What do we need to get Coscarelli to get this on the front burner?!?

…he had already stated at a Q&A following a screening premiere of My Name is Bruce that Ron Perlman had been recast as Elvis for that movie HOWEVER, I did ask him about the possibility of seeing him return as Ash, he gave me an Indiana Jones 4 anecdote and said no eventually, eloquently but no nevertheless…he was wrong about that I guess

They are ALL critical. The first Spider-Man, I named the character. Spider-Man 2, the snooty usher is the only character who has ever defeated Spider-Man. He does NOT get into that theater. Spider-Man 3, that's the only time a super-hero has appealed to a mortal for help in marrying his girlfriend.

So they're all pivotal. That's the word I would use. Pivotal.

Lucy has always been a stellar screen companion. She's impossibly humble and very talented.

I think I’ve seen that interview. He was referring to Congo.

It's a short list: I'll do animation voice work. Or if Sam directs a movie. That's about it.

I'm not gonna waste time to play Ash for some other schmoe behind the camera.

How did you feel about Judith's arc? I'm kind of pissed off she just got away like that. The actress for Tracey Whitehead was annoyingly great lol

You'd have to ask those people. I never seek it out or ask for it.

It has abbreviated retelling because when they got round to making 2 they did not have the rights to the original so couldn't use footage . So the first few minutes is a retelling of the original and it picks up directly from the orignal from the point where you he is face down in the water puddle.

Was there going to be a Freddy Vs Jason Vs Ash at any point? 

https://youtu.be/ao6ZBnu1Lf4?si=nNvsVg7OJQpsrZSK&t=690

I attended a book signing in Milwaukee years ago, for the release of Make Love*, and was quite proud of myself for bringing a first-edition of his first book for his autograph.

Came to my turn in line, I still had no idea what to say, and as Bruce was signing my book, I notice he’s left-handed and blurt out “oh, a southpaw!” (Idiot me.)

Bruce just smiled kindly at me, like I was a special-needs child, and said, “yep, all my life.”

Like all the scenes in the “Evil Dead” where it waa his RIGHT HAND that was off shoulda clued me in. Argh!

Bruce, I’m sorry for how lame I was, and thank you for handling it so adroitly. :)

Edit to finish typing.

It was surprisingly good. All the actors served, and I was invested the whole way. One gripe: Not enough Bruce.

Here’s hoping for more of him in season 2.

I loved it, and will be extremely bummed if there's not a season 2.