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JIM ISAAC:
“Skinwalkers was one of the first scripts I’ve read that kept me completely engrossed. It had everything I wanted in a film and a story – it has special effects, it has great scenes, it has a great story, the characters are rich and full, the relationships are true. It’s about something more than just a scary movie.”
JASON BEHR (Varek):
“One of the biggest draws for me was that I’m playing the bad guy. It’s such a departure for me. It was something I’ve never done before. I’m doing all these things I’ve always wanted to do as a kid and then as an actor. I got a chance to shoot guns and ride motorcycles and do all this insane wirework and stunts and just be a big, badass wolf.”
STAN WINSTON (Creature Effects):
“It’s not really the first time I’ve done a werewolf, but this is the first time I’ve been able to accomplish the werewolf that I’ve always wanted to do. There’s a big difference there. In The Monster Squad, the end design is a direction I always wanted to go in, but technically I wasn’t able to do it the way I want to and it ended up being a mask, and there wasn’t any animation in it, there wasn’t facial expression. I got a look I wanted, but I didn’t get the performance I wanted to get, which is what Skinwalkers for me is about.”
NATASSIA MALTHE (Sonya):
“I actually had a dream about being in a werewolf movie, it was a werewolf and there were dead animals on the ground and worms coming out of a dead animal. So I thought I was supposed to do a werewolf movie and I asked my agent to send me out for all werewolf movies.’
SHAWN ROBERTS (Adam):
“I’ve always had an affinity for wolves, so I already had that deep rooted connection, but my character only gets to a certain stage in the transformation as we always restrain ourselves, so I never really had to work or worry about the movement and developing it. Being a good werewolf it’s morally wrong to eat other human beings.”
BEHR:
“I watched this documentary about the Sawtooth Mountain wolves, very free, very beautiful wolf packs. I then went to the zoo in Toronto to [watch the wolves] and they were a real reflection and representation of these two tribal packs. You have one that’s very free and then you have the ones that are in the zoo that I felt really bad for. I’m sure they’re well taken care of, but they were confined, they were suppressed. It gave me a real clear vision of what these other guys are supposed to be and how free they were supposed to be.”
WINSTON:
“It took a couple of months to design the wolves. I always look at everything we do through my eyes as an actor, as if I were playing the part. How would I want to look, how would I act and can I get that performance. We had to design characters that helped these actors create the Skinwalkers, not hinder them.”
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