| Part One Paul: We're talking with Alice Krige, from Sleepwalkers. Annabelle: Now what happens to poor Clovis there? It's so sad. This poor little kitty. Alice: Well, I can't tell you the end can I?! Annabelle: Oh, okay! Now you were telling me something about how there were actually more than one Clovis on the set? Alice: They hired eight. They hired a Clovis who could scratch and purr, and another one who could snarl and screech ... Annabelle: Imagine the auditions ...(makes cat noises)! Alice: Yes, exactly! And they wound up with one cat doing 98% of the role. Annabelle: Oh well, isn't that always the way! Alice: So he was a hero, Clovis. A star cat. Paul: Sure, and all the other cats just sittin' talking about that cat! Annabelle: Yeah, sitting in that green room ...(makes cat noises)! Paul: If you want the videotape of Annabelle's cat impressions, send ... Annabelle: Thank you. I want to mention that Alice has been beating our eggs. We're putting all our wet ingredients in for our Wake Up and Smell the Coffee Cake - our buttermilk, our butter, vanilla, apples. I've been chopping our oranges and then I zested that. You see I zested that. How's that? Alice: You know what? If you don't cut so deep, it won't be so bitter. Annabelle: Oh, because the pithy part is bitter? Alice: The white bit is very bitter, but that's perfect Part Two Annabelle: So did you have a character image in your mind for this role? Alice: Medea. I decided that she was [a] tragic, Greek heroine ...misunderstood, wounded, fighting for her life. Annabelle: Yes, I see that. Paul: That's so interesting that you mention that, because I approach my work in the kitchen much like a young Macbeth. The way I dash about. The sense of danger I think that I bring. Alice, come drink from my goblet. Be my lady. Alice: Dance with me...you little toad! Paul: Oh, that's right. That's the line from Ghost Story. Annabelle: Okay! Let's get back to Sleepwalkers, starring Alice Krige. Paul: My lady! Part Three Annabelle: Now Alice, in this movie you're famished. You need to eat a virgin, but you're cutting peaches. Are you going to eat those peaches, or how do you guys exist? Alice: She cooks, but the peaches are like junk food. I mean regular human food is just peripheral. She needs to get nourished and sustained by the life essence of a virgin. Paul: You know what I've found about eating virgins is, if you just don't eat the skin, they're not really quite as fattening. Alice: Really? Paul: Have you found that to be true? All the fat's right under the skin. If somebody in town could get a place that delivered virgins, you guys wouldn't even have to go out of the house. Alice: That was our problem. Annabelle: It's hard to find them around these days. Alice: And when we do the movie, yeah. The point with the story starts - she hasn't had one for a whole lot longer ... Annabelle: Oh, you're famished. Alice: She's famished. She's starving. Part Four Annabelle: You know, Alice, you've actually done a number of movies where you're sort of other-worldly. Like you were the Queen of the Borg in [the] Star Trek movie. You were ... Paul: Very creepy in Ghost Story! Annabelle: You were dead in Ghost Story. Why do you think it is people offer you these other-worldly ... Alice: People say it's acting, but my husband says it's type-casting. He says there's no effort involved at all! Annabelle: Oh, I see. Paul: And then she killed him! Alice: I ...(laughs)! Annabelle: Now, Sleepwalkers. Is this really a myth or a legend that Stephen King is capitalizing on or ...? Alice: It's from his imagination. Annabelle: Oh, they don't even really exist? Alice: No, but he might dispute that. Part Five Annabelle: That has to be my favorite moment of the movie so far, Alice - "No vegetables. No dessert." I mean first of all you used [a] vegetable as a weapon. We love that here in the kitchen, but you know it just captures the right amount of like smart, funny, horror at the same time. Did you realize when you were shooting this movie it was going to be funny when you took the script? Alice: Not when I took the role, but gradually as we were shooting it. We were playing it so straight and it started ...the humor started to emerge. I mean that's the point where you realize it's got its tongue in its cheek. That it's a lampoon. ---------------------------------------------- Paul: Let's get a look at our Wake Up and Smell the Coffee Cake, with our virgin cream that Glenn Shadix told us how to make. Extra virgin cream! Super virgin cream! Alice: Extra virgin cream? Sounds like just what I need! |
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