The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is about more than just running from guys with chainsaws. We have to know why these teenagers get stuck with the crazy Hoyt family. A straight to video movie may just make up some random explanation, but a high class Hollywood film explains that two couples are on a last weekend trip before the boys ship off to Vietnam.
Jordana Brewster Talks Backstory to Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Star Jordana Brewster enjoys the running from chainsaw action, but had to get into character first. “I think you have to do some backstory for it,” she said. “You have to care with every role you do. I can’t ever work on a movie that I don’t believe in or that I don’t care about because otherwise you’re going to suck in the role. I think it’s always going to show in the acting. But at the same time, you can’t really overthink it. You have to be able to change things on a dime I think and you also have to be able to work pretty quickly and you have to be able to adjust because you have to work with all the technical things that are going on. The blood gets screwed up and then you have to be able to cry again for the 20th bloody time. So there’re all these different elements you have to work with, so you have to be pretty, not malleable, but you’ve got to be able to adjust. So I would have to say visceral.”
Jordana Brewster in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Matthew Bomer plays Brewster’s boyfriend, and with the two coming from Carnegie Melon and Yale acting schools respectively, they spoke a similar language during rehearsals. “We spent a lot of time hanging out before we actually shot, so the bonding helped. I think we worked on the backstory in terms of how much she didn’t want him to go and then being able to let go of that. Then just trying to have a good time before we get derailed by a cow.”
Some of Brewster’s usual techniques did not apply to Chainsaw. “Usually I journal, and create a character that way. I didn’t do that much of that in this one. In this one I spoke more with Jonathan Liebsman, the director. And I watched Jodie Foster in Silence of the Lambs and I watched Sigourney Weaver in <B>Alien</B> and I tried to find elements in different characters that I wanted to bring into this character. I wanted to make her really strong and yet also didn’t want to overcompensate and make her this super tough heroine because that’s not very realistic. It’s a mish mash of things. There’s not one thing I do.”
The chainsaw scenes did not require backstory. “No, there’s dialogue. There’s dialogue in the beginning so we didn’t have to rehearse the action. That was towards the end of the movie so we rehearsed the beginning scenes first.”
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning opens to theatres tomorrow,
October 6th.
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