"Fear Itself" Landis & Lawson Interview: Part II
Here in Part II are other highlights from the round of questioning that John Landis and Maggie Lawson received about Fear Itself.
As you can imagine, it was a lot of fun listening to these two chat back and forth about the show, horror, acting, and working together on this sinister series. I hope you all catch this episode on Thursday night!
John’s comments on casting for this “Fear Itself” Episode:
John Landis: But for me this - no, I - for me, you know what - the truth? I directed two episodes of Psych - that’s a USA show with James Roday and Maggie Lawson. And Maggie was on Psych - don’t get mad at me Maggie - but it makes me crazy. She’s under-used because working up there I just thought, man, this girl’s terrific and when I was given this script - I also, by the way, am a fan of James Roday, who is a very good, good actor and a really smart guy and really good actor.
So I saw this as an opportunity. I called them. It was hard to work out but for me what’s exciting is this is a showpiece for Maggie Lawson because she’s playing a character so different than the character she plays on Psych and she carries the show. And James is not the loveable, lighthearted, wise cracking guy he is on Psych. He’s more like Heathcliff in this one.
Maggie on working with John Landis and acting out horror:
Maggie Lawson: Yeah. But that - I’m - that’s so flattering and I take any opportunity I can to work with the wonderful John Landis because he is wonderful and he’s a master of many, many genres.
Heavy breathing, eyes wide open - no. I don’t really know. I mean I think every character is different so I think it’s sort of finding - it’s literally putting yourself in the position. This was so interesting because it’s - this is more of a, as John was saying, this is more of a psychological…
Maggie’s comments on the filming location for “In Sickness And In Health”:
Maggie Lawson: It was so creepy. The locations were fantastic and John has a way of lighting and setting everything up so by the time you actually walk into the scene you’re like, wow, okay, this is not going to take a lot from me. I pretty much just have to walk in and take the scene for what it is because the church that we used was - oh, it’s fabulous.
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