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Nightmare: Interview with Kyle Gallner
Posted by Puina in Latest News, Nightmare on Elm Street on 06 15th, 2009 | no responses>

NIGHTMAREREMAKEGALLNERTHUMBFangoria.com posts and interview with Kyle Gallner, from The Haunting in Connecticut, who is playing Quentin, the equivalent of Johnny Depp’s role as Nancy’s boyfriend in the original Nightmare on Elm Street.

Gallner says: “It’s a very different role in a very different movie from Haunting. I show up to work one day, and all of a sudden I’m face to face with Freddy Krueger and running for my life. It’s a cool experience.”

I’m quoting the bit that is most relevant to us:

The key makeup effect, of course, is Freddy himself, played by WATCHMEN’s Jackie Earle Haley, whom Gallner describes as “great, and a really nice guy” off camera. “It’s kind of funny to be hanging out on set, he’s sitting in his chair in his Freddy face and we’re chitchatting away, and then you get on set and all of a sudden he turns it on. As soon as he does that, he’s a completely different animal, and it’s genuinely creepy to do scenes with him. There was one scene I did with him the other night where we were just face to face, and it was pretty unnerving. I actually got creeped out. His makeup looks terrific; it’s definitely Freddy.”

And for those who were worried about how Freddy would be in the remake:

Gallner adds that this Krueger will hark back to the sinister, straight-faced monster he began as, rather than the jokester he became in the later sequels. “It’s played a little straighter,” the actor says. “I mean, there are still going to be some throwbacks to the other films—you’ve gotta keep a couple of the one-liners—but for the most part, it’s going to be a little more real, a little more raw. I believe it’ll be more disturbing than the original.”

Check out the full interview from some pretty cool info about the movie.

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