BOP Interview: Cabin in the Woods
By Ryan Mazie
April 12, 2012
KC: It was so cool to watch it at South By Southwest, because it was just so crazy. It was like a rock show. People were cheering and laughing. There were times that, Anna [Hutchison, a co-star in the film] and I talked about this, where Fran would start a line and people would start laughing, and we were like, “No, no, no! Let him finish, it is funnier if you hear the whole thing!” But it was so cool that there was so much energy in that room and that people were so excited about it. It was an even sweeter feeling to have had all of this time go by and all of this, “Oh man, I hope this comes out and people like it,” and then to be in that room and to have people respond the way that they responded was just awesome. It was a truly extraordinary experience.
At South By Southwest, Whedon made a comment on how he packed almost every fear imaginable into The Cabin in the Woods. When asked about what type of horror film they would make about one of their fears, Connolly immediately thought of an answer. “The thing I am most afraid of is drowning or being buried alive, something you are suffocating, really terrifies me,” she said. She cites a non-horror movie for an example, “I couldn’t even watch Kill Bill 2, with the scene where she is in the coffin. I had to get up and leave the theater, because it was too intense for me.”
Kranz says his biggest fear is claustrophobia, “The Descent killed me. The monsters scared me, but I was far more uncomfortable with the dive down. I couldn’t handle that.”
Luckily Kranz doesn’t have to deal with confined spaces in his next film with Whedon, Much Ado About Nothing.
On Much Ado About Nothing and shooting it in 12 days
FK: [Joss] was on vacation from Avengers and he and his family were going to go to Italy, but instead he filmed Much Ado About Nothing at the last second. He does play readings at his house a lot. We sat in his backyard and read Midsummer Night’s Dream one time. I got an email from him and he said, “I’m thinking about doing Much Ado at my house, but I am going to film it this time. Are you interested?” And I always say yes to him. Then he said, “Would you do Claudio?” And I said, “Absolutely.” Then all of a sudden, people started contacting me about wardrobe and my social security (laughs). There was a grip truck at his house and all of a sudden we were making a movie. Granted, it was short and we burned through it, but it’s a movie. It’s a real thing. I can’t believe it. He’s so busy with Avengers that this is sort of his side passion project, but I do know there’s a cut and they are putting music down and he wants to take it to festivals.
For now, Whedon fans, horror lovers, and even people looking for a laugh, can venture out to The Cabin in the Woods, which opens in theaters this Friday. “To me it feels like a great ride at Disney,” said Connolly with an excited laugh, “It’s best if you don’t know what’s going to happen and when you’re finished with it, it’s like, ‘I want to see that again!’”
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