Quotes : Page 2
"When I act a scene, I go onto this sound stage, which is backed with a blue screen. In the film I might be meeting some wild being, half scorpion, half human, but the only thing I have to guide me is some 19-year-old kid with a broom marked with a white cross. It's pretty intense."
"In Hollywood the first priority is to survive," Vosloo says. "The real trouble is that when you're a star no one says no to you. You want the best car in the world? They will buy it for you. You want 12-year-old boys? They provide them for you. The most beautiful people in the world, perfect bodies and faces, end up waiting table. If you are to survive you have to seek something deeper, to dig within yourself. You can never be complacent. I try to keep away (from the party circuit). My best friend is a guy who works on boats in the marina."
"Sylvia was the first person I met whom I could sleep with and talk to, well not at the same time, but you know what I mean. I feel comfortable with her. It's like wearing an old coat or a favourite pair of shoes."
"I just love these desert spaces. I have spent time in deserts and I think you turn in on yourself in them, you grow spiritually."
"I much prefer just going for a walk on the beach with my dog. I don't want to be fat, I want to be lean and mean.
"I'm rather frail. I have porphyria (a hereditary metabolic disease). It isn't lethal or anything, but I do have to look after myself."
On being called the 'Sexiest Man Alive" in some places:
"Oh really?" he says. "I do know I get thousands of fan letters. I guess it's because I wander around in a loin cloth, or maybe people just love a bad guy."
On Oscar Wilde's Salome , playing opposite Al Pacino:
"I had my ticket home because I didn't think I'd get it. When I auditioned I was really amped out, as if I had coke in my veins. Probably because I was so desperate, I got the part. Al Pacino always said I was better in the audition than I was in the play."
Crankycritic.com's Interview with AV. Courtesy Cheryl.
"Hey, if Hollywood wants to pay me the big bucks to be a bad guy, bring it on, I say."
Vosloo, who has performed many classics on the stage, was more than happy to reprise Imhotep in The Mummy Returns, "partly because of Steven [Sommers, director] and the bigger pay check of course", he says smilingly.
On the Language used in TMR :
"The language was impossible for me. You wouldn't believe the number of times I screwed up Imhotep's dialogue. Or they would suddenly ask me to add something on the fly and God knows what I'd say."
Vosloo says that The Mummy Returns "is not necessarily the kind of movie I'd see on my own, but it's still a great crowd pleaser, and this is character is still wonderful to play. Not to mention working with that CGI stuff which is pretty cool."
Vosloo is a great fan of classic films, and says his major ambition is "to redo Peckinpah's Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia."
"I can make one or two of these big films a year and then, in an ideal world," As for being bald for other villainous roles. "Hey, it worked for Yul Brynner, right?"
Suntimes Interview With AV : 20 June 1999
"I remember sitting in the old station wagon parked next to the projection box watching flicks, mainly horror movies," he says. "I love horror movies."
"It's not a bad job to be paid lots to go and swim with the dolphins in the Bahamas. "The best thing about making movies is the travel. You get to see the world under the best circumstances (Morocca notwithstanding). All those thankless years of working on stage for $150 a week have paid off."
"I left South Africa because I wanted to make movies and they weren't making them there then," he explains. "If I could have spoken French I would have gone to France. I think they make the best movies in the world."
I like America. It's a great place to lose yourself in, be anonymous, drift. My favourite thing is to get into the car, throw $1 000 into the glove compartment, and just drive. I really love that. People in Kansas don't know what's happening in New York. Most of them don't even know where South Africa is. You can just disappear into America."
"The day they tell me there's a Mummy sequel I'll buy a farm (with a lot of space for horses, dogs, motorbikes, lots of toys', between San Francisco and southern California. Or in the Sierra Nevada in Yosemite.It's the best place in the world. If I'm not working on the Mummy Two or something, we're spending the Millennium there in Yosemite in a cabin on a friend's ranch. I can think of nothing better, ensconced in front of a big log fire in a wood cabin with my dog and my wife, Sophie and Sylvia - the dog came into my life before the wife."
"I'll be happy to do something different," he admits. "I think I've done my time of going in for a week on shows like Nash Bridges to be the bad guy who slaps Don Johnson around. I've also vowed never to do another movie with prosthetic make-up - but I vowed that after Darkman and look at me now. The Mummy makes Darkman look like it's make-up free."
In terms of longevity the smart thing would be to hold out for the better stuff. Ideally I'd love to do a movie, a smaller movie, then do a play, a movie, a play. Stay away from the Hollywood "fame" thing. Fame is a scary thing. America revers fame and it can be rough."
On 'The Mummy':
"This is not your grandfather's Mummy."
It's upgraded and hi-tech and a whole new thing."
"I was tempted to slip in a few Afrikaans words, but I couldn't do it. I couldn't have come shambling through the sand dunes yelling 'kaalgat' or something like that."
"I thought being the Mummy, especially as he is 3 000 years old, would be great because to me the Mummy is the seminal horror icon," Vosloo says in his deep, part transatlantic, part-Afrikaans voice.
"But I also really wanted to go on location to North Africa. Shooting in Morocco was a wonderful adventure even if it was also rather fraught. We were in the middle of nowhere working in blazing heat for six weeks."
"We stayed in a tiny village which had no restaurants, only one hotel, like the hotel in The Shining. You expected a man with an axe to come down the corridor at any time. We all freaked out. And we had the worst time with the food, couscous solidly. We just stopped eating. I had nutritional milkshakes in powder form flown in for me.
It was truly bizarre. If there was a nice Four Seasons Hotel maybe it would have been different. Who says making movies is a luxury. They pay you enough not to have to work for a year, but you need that year to get your head back together."
"I found working with special effects easier than being around camels."
"Technically the most difficult scene to shoot was the scene when a bug comes out of my neck and crawls back through my cheek simply because the camera, a motion caption camera, is operated by a computer set by a timer. Normally it's a human that operates the camera and things can be compensated for. But with a motion caption camera you have to be in synch to the last millimetre and it takes for ever. That scene took two days to shoot."
"Physically the worst scene, which is about five seconds at the beginning of the movie, is when they wrap me up and put me in the coffin and pour bugs on me and close the lid. It took about five hours to shoot the scene and it was bizarre and unpleasant. I was freaking out because I couldn't move or see or hear and my mind was becoming irrational."
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