00:00Well, I play your basic protagonist, Ed Dalton.
00:06I'm a vampire who is having a moral crisis about being a vampire.
00:15I think the brothers would tell you it's the phoenix story.
00:20It's you meet a character who is dead and who rises from the ashes.
00:25You know, that's really what, at its core, what it's trying to be,
00:28is how do you go from being the walking dead to an awake and alive human being,
00:36which has a kind of pertinent allegory for all of us.
00:40A lot of us feel we're the walking dead.
00:44You could tell right away that it was really kind of unique and original.
00:52And, you know, there's a quality to the old school genre movies
00:56that I saw when I was a kid that I loved,
00:58which is that they're all incredibly subversive
01:00and there's something almost punk rock about them all.
01:04And I felt that immediately from this movie.
01:07There's kind of a deep counterculture vein running through it.
01:13And it was a lot of fun, the movie.
01:17And I was...
01:18I wanted to do a movie that was fun.
01:22The same way the vampires are running out of humans.
01:25They're eating their own resources.
01:27They're destroying their world.
01:30That metaphor is so powerful.
01:32And it resonates at this moment in time more loudly than ever before.
01:39When you're being directed by two people,
01:40you realize there is no right and wrong way.
01:42There's just preference.
01:47And so there's a certain kind of freedom in it.
01:49It's also fun because they're so new to the profession.
01:54They're so young and they're so excited
01:56that it's a thrill to be around somebody
02:03that's having that good a time.
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