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Garret Dillahunt on The Last House on the Left
By Fred Topel | Images property of Rogue Pictures
The Last House on the Left
When Garrett Dillahunt reaches The Last House on the Left, he pays for all his evil deeds earlier in the film. Until then, his Krug is pretty vicious, leading a gang of escaped convicts, including his own son, to attack and rape two teenage girls. For Dillahunt, it was important that Krug not just be the monster.
Dillahunt Visits The Last House on the Left
"Maybe sometimes I should do that but I feel like that's easier," Dillahunt said. "I guess you can’t think of him as that. I thought he was just a guy who’s had some bad luck in his life and it really makes him angry, the way the world has treated him. He’s just not responding to that bad luck in a healthy way. He’s not seeking therapy or retraining. He’s blaming everyone else, and he really can’t let it go. He’s physically capable. It’s everyone else’s fault, and he gets obsessed with punishing them. He’s meting out his own twisted justice. I have to be careful how I sound because it sounds like I’m good at doing it, but what I want to do is bring humanity to things. I feel like it’s more interesting if there’s a little complexity and, in a way, more monstrous because it could exist in the world, like Ted Bundy or the BTK Killer or the Green River Killer, where you’re just like, 'What? How can you have that stamina, to do this over decades, and still wake up and dress yourself, or think you’re all right?' I don’t think Krug is a serial killer. I think he’s a spree killer. He’s just got some wrong ideas about how to exist."
Dillahunt did his research to add a backstory to Krug. "I think it’s helpful to. I don’t think it matters if the audience knows what it is. It’s probably better, in this case. You can be that monster. It doesn’t really matter, does it? He’s come to your door, for whatever reason. But, it was helpful for me, yes. I found unexpected inspiration from Andrew Cunanan, who killed Versace. He went on this cross-country spree. I don’t think he’s really anything like Krug, in everyday life. Krug is not a cross-dresser or confused about his sexuality. But, there was a murder he committed that so horrified me and left so much more of an impression than anything I had read. He had killed this older gentleman on his way across the country because he needed a car, which I understand. He had done that before, but it was very merciful killings. But with this one, he had bound him, burned him, shot him, drove over him several times with the car. It was this ridiculous amount of rage and overkill, to torch someone he didn’t know. The FBI guy who wrote about him said that that was so unusual because usually that kind of rage is directed at someone that the perpetrator knows, and there’s something personal going on. But he was able to project something else, from his own life, onto this poor guy, who was no shrinking violet. I think he was ex-military. They suspect he probably called him a punk and was like, 'Screw you, you’re not getting my car.' He was a tough old bird. He was not going to lay down for this kid, and it just sent him into this fit. And, I just thought, 'That’s kind of the guy I’m thinking about.'"
Krug also looks different than Dillahunt or anyone he's ever played. "I wanted some kind of facial hair. Oddly, Aaron Paul, who’s fantastic in this movie, has similar coloring to mine, in real life. We’re even from the same part of the country. But for some reason, Dennis said, 'We’re going to dye your hair black.' I was like, 'We look exactly alike. Why would you want to do that?' But, I dug it. I thought it was weird and off. And, we came up with this weird beard, which actually looks exactly like Tony Stark’s beard in Iron Man. I was like, 'That’s my beard!' We watched it in Cape Town and I was like, 'No way!' I couldn’t believe it. His was really neat, of course. I did find it helpful. Dennis didn’t want it to be too iconic of a look. We didn’t want to make a brand for Krug."
Krug's wardrobe came from a familiar place too. "Janie Bryant was the costume designer. She is the same costume designer from Deadwood, so I knew her really well and she’s great. She’s an Emmy-winning costume designer but she has a tendency to put you in just slightly small clothes. I’m a 44 or a 43, and she always loves to put me in size 40 jackets. I knew what she was going to do and I saw that she had all these clothes, so I was like, 'Janie, don’t put me in clothes too small for this. I need to move for this.' And, she was like, 'We’ve got the whole gamut, y’all.' At the other end of the rack was slightly oversized clothes, which is where we ended up."
The Last House on the Left opens to theaters March 13th.
For the trailer, poster, stills and more movie info, go to the The Last House on the Left Movie Page.
Fred Topel
Sources: Images property of Rogue Pictures
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