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Melissa George on 30 Days of Night
By Fred Topel | Image property of Columbia Pictures.
30 Days of Night
Melissa George thought she was making a relationship movie with Josh Hartnett. Of course 30 Days of Night was about vampires, but she was sold on the estranged relationship between her character and his small town sheriff.
George on the Romantic Side of 30 Days of Night
"It was hard for us because the story was revolving around Eben and Stella and the car flipping upside down," recalled George. "I couldn’t believe what I went through. I couldn’t believe that and I’m one for anything. You throw me off anything whatever, as long as I have a harness. This one was so ridiculous. It was so physical but exciting at the same time. When they flipped the car up, I looked at Josh and said, `Did you expect this?’"
A veteran of a season of TV's Alias and plenty of physically demanding movies, 30 Days of Night was brand new territory for George. "I was saying, `Are you going to rehearse this?’ and they’re saying, `No, you’ll be fine.' Then when it fell on the roof and I’m upside down and the next thing you know is this freaking vampire comes in and I’m like, `Is this for real?’ You had this much head space and it caved in this much [more] so we were upside down…you had to be there."
Always a sport, George just gave in to the outrageous conditions. "It was so ridiculous that we couldn’t stop laughing because we’re upside down with no space, crunched in aluminum can in this car. Then I love the director going, `You guys okay?’ We’re like, `Yeah, yeah, we’re okay.' And he says, `Awesome, take 2’. So we’re upside down, they lift the car up with a crane and flip it really around and all the vessels burst in my face from the pressure. And I’m like, `Phew, that was good, shake it out, shake it out. You good, Josh? I didn’t want to do another but if you want to do another, we’ll do another.’ So we did it about 10 times. But in a sick kind of way, it was great."
George is not a particular fan of gory films, and regretted certain aspects of her previous horror film Turistas. However, 30 Days of Night made her proud. "I’m proud of it because it’s an original concept. I paused for a minute when I was offered that role. I thought, `No, no, I don’t know about this’ because you don’t know how it’s going to turn out. But I knew about David Slade of Hard Candy and he’s an actor’s director. He works on the performance. All the vampire stuff was taken care of , they got that down. You know, I was so over it, so tired and exhausted but regardless of genre, you can’t ever pick a movie by genre. It has to be script. Otherwise Ben Stiller wouldn’t make 20 comedies and Jim Carrey would say, 'You know what, I’m not going to make 25 comedies. It’s the same genre.' It’s the character within the genre that’s important."
30 Days of Night opens to theaters tomorrow, October 19th.
For the trailer, stills and more movie info, go to the 30 Days of Night
Movie Page.
Fred Topel
Sources: Image property of Columbia Pictures.
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