1) If you were an animal, what would you be and why? A lion because a lion
is majestic and free. 2) What would you buy if you won the lottery? I would give more to charity. 3) What's the strangest gift you have received off a fan? A young girl gave
me her underwear as a gift. TV HITS November 1998.
Q: Did you grow up watching the Halloween movies? J: I was...I'm such a wuss man! (laughs) I can't watch any
kind of scary movie really. Q: But most guys love horror films! J: I went and saw Scream, I just can't really
stop myself. But I think the thing is people just want to feel
something. They want to feel some kind of adrenaline - some kind
of emotion at all. It doesn't matter what it is. With horror movies
it's pretty much guaranteed you're gonna be scared, you know? Q: Did you get scared during filming? J: During shooting I got pretty scared. I was actually living
in a little cabing up in Hollywood Hills and every time I'd go home
there was nobody around. I would hear things outside and I positive
I was being stalked by something, something close to pure evil, and
I just got the hell scared of me! So when I went back to work I had
something to draw from, it all worked out. (laughs) Q: You say you don't like scary movies, but you've just finished
making another one now - The Faculty. J: The Faculty is pretty scary, yeah. But it's more like a thriller.
It's got a twist of sci fi...I'd compare it more like Jaws than
anything. You see stuff happening that's interesting, like a hand
drops in the frame - just kind of Hitchcock - type stuff. Q: What else have you been working on? J: Now I'm in Toronto, I don't really have a home. I'm living in
my car! I haven't had time to figure out where I'm gonna stay! The
movie I'm shooting up there is The Virgin Sucides. It stars James
Woods, Kristen Dunst and Kathleen Turner. I've been extremly lucky
to work with people I've worked with so far, and I just hope to keep
doing that. Q: Was it hard to shoot the gory scenes in Halloween H20? J: Well it was alot of fun on set actually - there was a lot of
jokes actually - raw meat, bloody caracasses on tables, you know?
But you've just got to make the most of it. It is a hit-or-miss kind
of thing, and I think we hit. There's a lot of chance in making a
movie like this - everybody could hate it, or everybody could love it.
It just depends how it turns out I think. I mean, you guys have
seen it - did you like it? Q: Definatly! So how do you celebrate Halloween? J: Well, I go to the kitchen and get a big-ass knife, and find my
Captain Kirk mask, and start running around, and then I just completly
black out! (laughs) Q: What's your favourite scary movie? J: I don't know....when I was 12 years old I saw Poltigiest
over a friends house and after it was done I couldn't walk home
two doors! It was really scary - just freaky! I stayed up all nighy
playing Foosball just to stay awake! And, I was really scared little
guys were gonna jump me and start chasing me around- and I survived.
Freaky! HALLOWEEN H20: EXCLUSIVE 1998 Q:Josh, on the behind the scenes clips we've seen you're in that
same blue hat you're wearing now. Is there something special about
that hat? JH: I did a movie where I've got extentions and when I'm on the
set, it's just nice to hide myself. Q: What are you working on right now? JH: Right now I'm working on a movie called THE VIRGIN SUICIDES.
Sophia Coppola is directing. Q: This is your feature film debut. Seeing the fame previous
HALLOWEEN alumnihave reached, do you think any of that will happen
to you? JH: I can just hope for the best and kinda take what's coming...try
and be respectful to fans who want autographs. Q: As an actor, don't you even dream of fame? JH: I never really did. I know it's probably completely senile,
but what I really want to do is theater. I went to theater school and
got booted, got kicked out. Q: Why? JH: (Laughs) You really ask good questions. Ahhh...why. Lots of
reasons, lots of reasons. Well, it's a state run school, and they
don't really have a lot of funding for the arts, so they can't really
afford to graduate everyone they take in. They took in 26 of us and
the first day they told us only 7 of us would graduate. And that's not
a good position to put a volatile young actor in, to pin 'em against
each other. So anyway, I told them that's probably not the best way to
go about it, in this very eloquently written letter. And they really
didn't appreciate it. And there was also something about the professor
's daughter...(laughs) Q: A lot of your scenes in H20 are with Jamie Lee Curtis. What's
she like to work with? JH: Jamie Lee...she is a luminous person. She's got charisma and
such passion. And that's something every young actor should take a
look at. To sit back and watch the way she works is really a lesson.
She's just great. Q: Likewise, what was Michelle Williams like? JH: She's a talented actress. I had to strain just to keep my
jaw off the floor. Q: Did you watch the first HALLOWEEN before working on H20? JH: Yeah, I saw the first one two weeks before we started. It
is a classic movie. That's where the horror cliche came from. Q: How much of you is in the character John Tate? JH: Quite a bit, actually. Q: Can you picture yourself becoming a teen idol? JH: I don't think there's any problem with being a teen idol
if you can handle it, if that's what comes. It's such a crazy
business. There's this standard you have to be in order to be a teen
idol. I dunno if I could handle that. Q: Who and what were some of your influences in the movies? JH: Ethan Hawke. He's a terrific actor. My inspiration when I was
younger - my Dad made me watch ON THE WATERFRONT. Jimmy Stewart,
people like that. Q: When did you know you wanted to be an actor? JH: About three years ago. I hurt my knee while playing football.
I auditioned for this play...and I got the part. I got up on stage
and people were clapping - and looking at me. It was exciting. I felt
like I had a place.
