The Making of...
Scott Cohen Interview
SC = Scott Cohen
HW= Herbert Wise, Director
RH = Robert Halmi, Senior Executive Producer
VO = Voice Over
SC: "I was completely convinced that they would cast a star and that I would never be cast for this part, so I called my agent and said 'I love it, I adore it, I think it's fantastic, this is the very thing that I've always dreamed of doing, and I'll never get it so why are we even gonna like go down that road?'"
(CLIP: Virginia forcing Wolf out of the window)
SC: "There was never a question in my mind of how to do it. Like usually like for auditioning for something I have to like it and look at it and I have to say "Well I could to this, I could do that..." This was like, I read it. I knew how to do it. And it was just about feeling free to do that."
(CLIP: Wolf waking up on the trash bags, scratching his face)
HW: "Scott has done it completely successfully, that of being this animal and yet being human. And the animal is not sort of offensive, but it is just exciting, and the human is not quite human, there's always that delay of the animal with him, and that's a very, very clever way of doing it."
(CLIP: "Why don't you touch it?" scene)
SC: "There are times what it really needs to be over the top because it just...it...I mean there's, I mean there's a section where I tie Grandma up and I'm about to eat her. So it's not like I could, like you know, underplay that."
(CLIP: Grandma in the roasting pan)
SC: "She's brilliant."
(CLIP: "What a dreamy...")
SC: "Scrumptious."
(CLIP: "...crrreamy girl!")
SC: "She's beautiful."
(CLIP: Wolf's reaction to Virginia's photograph)
SC: "Adorable."
(CLIP: Wolf picking up Virginia's photograph, with VO: "Tasty or WHAT?!")
SC: (CLIP: VO the kiss scene) "She provides for him a purpose in his life. I mean he brings her through this story I think, I think that he's her guide."
RH: "If you're looking for somebody who could have been a wolf in a life before, and we needed somebody who was sexually threatening and you know, this is a major story between Kimberly and the Wolf. And it's not easy. That's the most difficult part in the movie, to act as a human in love, but somehow your heritage is that you're a wolf. The line in the movie that 'I don't know whether to kiss you or eat you...' that's it."
(CLIP: Psychiatrist scene: "I don't know whether I wanna love her, or eat her.")
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