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1/24/03 We're Hangin' With..... BUFFY'S "ANYA": EMMA CAULFIELD by: Lynn B. Anya, the occasionally
clueless demon girl from "Buffy", stars in her first feature
film as a gal running from the tooth fairy. Okay, it's not quite that
lame. Emma Caulfield plays Caitlin, a small town (human) girl whose little
bro is terrified of the dark…for good reason. Darkness Falls
is the town where a charming childhood myth becomes fodder for night terrors
and Emma has to join forces with her fear-tortured childhood sweetheart
to face and conquer one ticked off, frightening killer created by Stan
Winston Studios. We chatted with the t.v.-turned-film star, learned what
scares her, how she dealt with an eccentric young actor and we got the
scoop from Emma and her young director Jonathan about the making of the
spooky new film. AGW: What scares you? Emma: My fears are abstract. They're large concepts. Like never having peace of mind or not being able to fulfill a spiritual quest or something. Sounds very New Agey and ridiculous, I guess. I don't know if it's a fear so much but I can't sleep without some sort of sound. I have to have some sort of white noise. If I am lucky enough to fall asleep without it, I'm usually up every hour with dreams of people chasing me. It's horrible. AGW: Did anything about watching the premiere with an audience surprise you? Emma: I like the cat (which comes out of nowhere). That was my favorite thing shooting it. We almost didn't get that shot. They were going to scrap it completely. I had to go back to Buffy. We had 20 minutes to shoot it. It was great. The cat jumped at the right time at the right spot. It scared me and I knew it was coming. That was a genuine wow. I didn't expect it to be that frightening. AGW: There was a real cat but no scary creature on set for you. What did they tell you you were looking at while you were shooting the film? Emma: I had nothing. I had a stick with some tape and Jonathan (the director) prodding me with 'be scared'. AGW: Aren't you used to that? (referring to Buffy) Emma: Yeah, I guess so although we actually have creatures and people in costumes chasing us around on Buffy. I hadn't really worked with green screen much so it was interesting. AGW: Do you think this film is just too scary? (note: Darkness Falls is rated PG-13) Emma: There are some dead bodies, yeah but I don't see this as a slasher horror film, definitely not a Friday the 13th. You hear a lot and think you see a lot but you actually don't because it's so quickly cut and it's so dark. AGW: What made you want to do this project? Emma: I really wanted to work with Jonathan Liebesman (her young director). I had seen his short film (Genesis and Catastrophe) and there wasn't a script at the time but based on that short film he made, I thought I'd even get the guy coffee. I just really want to work with him. It was amazing and visually arresting. (Note: Liebesman describes his short film as: "A Roald Dahl short story about the birth of Hitler but with some light comedy for the family (laughs)". We asked the director about shooting this very spooky, atmospheric film and learned that a lot of the scares are real and live on the movie set and not computer-generated. "There's not a lot of CG in this movie. The challenge was to really maximize production value with what we were given. The real thing is so much more believable because as soon as CG happens, you subconsciously know something is going on that can't be real and I think that's why directors are always going to push for the real thing if they can get it". The "monster" in this film was a human-sized puppet manipulated by the Stan Winston puppeteers. The sounds in the film are really creepy too and Jonathan told us about them. "Before the studio gave us money for a great creature, we thought we were going to rely completely on sound design. We wanted to geographically show where she (the "monster") was through sound. The more you show of something the more you demystify it so the more we could keep her in the shadows or in the sound, the better. You do have to think of what your characters have to react to". AGW: Emma, what was it like working with young first-timer Lee Cormie who played your little brother? Emma: I had no experience with kids and I'm not sure I'm very good with them. My best Lee story…. He asked 'who is Emma?' And someone said 'she's a big t.v. star' and he's like 'no, she's not'. He decided to go online and put in my name and up came these pictures of me in my underwear and he was horrified and thought I was a porn star. And for the entire shoot he kept saying to me, 'you're disgusting, you took dirty pictures'. I was like 'Thanks, Lee, I appreciate that'.(note: the pictures didn't really reveal anything). We asked Emma about
her departure from "Buffy" and she let us know that she had
asked creator Josh Whedon not to have her character die. She's not sure
exactly how Anya will depart as yet but we're sure it will be with flair.
(Editor's note: Darkness Falls is rated PG-13 but has intense, spooky moments involving a scary creature moving in the dark. If you just go to fright films for fun, you might enjoy the film. If you are afraid of the dark, we recommend caution.) |
 
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