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Brad Dourif -- Import Magazines
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CINESCAPE OCTOBER 1997
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Cinescape 1997年10月号
X-Files
Luther Lee Boggs
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Brad Dourif
Brad Dourif may not be a household name,
but you've definitely seen him before. Dourif is the man called in to play the
creep, the freak or the psycho: He was the voice of Chuckie in the Child's Play
movies, a wife-beating KKK member in Mississippi Burning, a mental patient in
One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nes and serial killer in an episode of The
X-files.
"People don't tend to hire me for Dad," Dourif says. "But I'd
just as soon play people who are interesting."
Dourif is lucky, then,
that he's a big fan of science fiction-roles in genre fare such as Star Trek:
Voyager, Babylon 5, Millennium, The X-files and the upcoming Alien Resurrection
have offered the actor some of the most challenging moments in his
career.
Working in television is especially demanding, he admits.
"You're under a lot more pressure because you have to shoot faster and you
really have to be prepared," he notes. "You need to learn to just things and let
go of them-television really teaches you how to do that."
Case in point
was his work on The X-files, in which he played Luther Lee Boggs, a serial
killer who almost gets Agent Scully to believe that he can talk to her dead
father. "At first, they offered it to me, and I had just four days [to
prepare]," Dourif recalls. "And I said, 'There is no way possible that I can
prepare this and have it ready in four days. 'And they called back and said,
'You're right. Why don't we give you 10 days, and we'll shoot it at the end.'
They give me the 10 days, and I [still] barely made it."
Dourif faced a
different kind of challenge---a language barrier---while shooting Alien
Resurrection with French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, but the actor still came
away with an appreciation for the helmer's vision.
"There's this odd
sense of awe in the way he approaches his imagery," Dourif says of Jenet, whose
previous films include Delicatessen and City of Lost Children. "You just get a
feeling that [what he sees in his head] is so other-worldly."
Shooting
a big sci-fi action film can be an otherworldly experience in and of itself.
"Sometimes you're doing [Scenes with creatures] that aren't there, which is no
big deal. I've done scenes working with people that I wish weren't there, "he
laughs.
But whether he's battling FX monsters or his own demons, Dourif is
just happy to be in demand. "If you're a character actor and you're
not making money hand over fist, your whole life is sweating the next job,
"he says. "But I get in front of a camera and I'm in heaven.
That's my trade-off." ---Chandra Palermo |
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