But the scenes that are the most exciting to watch are often the most difficult to do, and not necessarily a thrill.įor me, the exciting ones were actually the dialogue scenes. So you hook onto the actors you’re working with, and you trust the director. You just have to keep that in your imagination, because it’s greenscreen. It’s very difficult to keep a clear idea of where you are in the story when you spend days and days repeating a twist on top of something that you’re promised will be a speeding train next to a cliff. How were those to shoot, especially with Bekmambetov as director?īewildering, because you have to take a leap of faith that when you launch your leg in the air and shout and go “Aaargh!” or whatever, that he’s not going to leave you hanging, that you’re going to be supported by the film and the FX are going to balance you. You’re involved in some pretty intense action scenes. They can have a man-to-man chat about leadership and humanity, and Abe would be someone he’d want on his side rather than just destroying him for the fun of it. That was my take on it, the idea that he considers himself to be a parallel, an alternative, that Abe is his opposite number. My idea of him as a kind of cigar-room dealmaker-the vampire’s vampire, the man you’d vote for in vampire elections-was born out of and given life to by the script. But he was written with a master plan and a need-not just a function, but something he was after. Luckily for me, from the time I got the part to the time I did it, the character grew exponentially. Then it was about being sure of the things he needed to be, and not just perform a function, but try to make it more organic. And reading the book, I could see why they would need a character like Adam, and what function he performs. An SNL sketch dragged out for two hours wouldn’t necessarily work you need to have some investment in it. But I enjoyed it, and it was very important to me to see that the source material was actually very good and to check the tone of it-that if there’s a joke, the joke is in the title.
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I must admit, I was so excited to download the book to Kindle before anyone had told me that Adam didn’t appear, and I was a good way through it before the script arrived. I did, yeah-up until the point I realized Adam wasn’t going to turn up. As far as my character was concerned, I thought of him as a politician and a great soldier for his cause and a great president for his people, with a very clear agenda: to find a homeland for his creed.Īdam is not in the book, but did you go to it just to get yourself versed in the world Seth Grahame-Smith created? I know there’s some amazing stuff being done in True Blood and so on, but in terms of films, I just liked the fact that they didn’t twinkle, they weren’t involved in little romances and they were evil as fuck. But considering the current state of affairs with Twilight, etc., it felt enough just to return to the roots of them being stately, vicious monsters. Well, I’d never actually played a vampire before, so at that time I couldn’t give a fuck who else had played a vampire, I was so pleased! For me, what was important was not going into it with such lofty notions of redefining the idea of the vampire. When you got the part of Adam, did you approach it in terms of finding a new way to play a vampire, or just portraying this specific character regardless of the fact that he is one?
There have been so many different screen portrayals of vampires over the years. But Timur Bekmambetov’s historical horror/action epic is his first turn as a creature of the night. Sewell has been acting for 20 years now in a wide variety of genres, with horror/fantasy credits including Bless the Child, Vinyan, the made-for-cable She Creature and, most notably, as the hero of Alex Proyas’ stunning Dark City. Enter Adam-a character not present in Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, but created for the film and vividly enacted by British actor Rufus Sewell. When a movie’s vampire-slaying hero is none other than the President of the United States, it requires an especially strong bloodsucking villain to oppose him.
Editor's Note: This was originally published for FANGORIA on June 21, 2012, and we're proud to share it as part of The Gingold Files.
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