WonderCon Interview: Evil Dead’s Lou Taylor Pucci Exhibits His Fanboy Side

Pucci, as it turns out, is a big horror fan and we got him fired up talking about the Evil Dead at WonderCon over the weekend.  

There are ever-so-slight spoilers.  Honestly, I don’t see them as such, but there are sensitive individuals out there who may take issue with the brief chat inside.  So, just covering our ass here!


Shock Till You Drop:  Good to meet you and congrats on pulling off a great flick.

Lou Taylor Pucci:  I’m excited, man.  All we had to do was follow the rules, do the right thing and be sincere about it.

Shock:  And keep it a bit grounded…just a little.  I mean, I think your character takes a hell of a beating, I don’t know if anyone could stand that…

Pucci:  That’s true.  That’s probably the most fantastic part is just how much of a beating I take, but I love it!  That’s the character I love to watch in any movie.  I always said to myself, I only want to be in films I actually want to see.  I’m a horror fan and sci-fi fan and this is the coolest thing I’ve done.

Shock:  Well, I’m a huge fan of what you did in Carriers – an underrated film I try to recommend to people.

Pucci:  Thanks, man.  Yeah, it’s a small, post-apocalyptic film that’s deep and heavy and dark.

Shock:  Did you get an accurate count of how many gallons of blood this production needed?

Pucci:  Oh my god, I think it was 50,000 gallons or something…  I’d like to say why, but I can’t.  Let’s just say there’s a lot.

Shock:  As a fan of horror, how excited were you to meet The Chin?

Pucci:  Oh, a huge fan of The Chin!  I went to my callback because I heard he was there and I wanted to meet him.  I had no expectation of getting the part and I’m usually put into more indie films, more dramas.  This time in my life, I’ve been having a lot more fun with the parts I’ve been getting and I think that’s why they cast me.  They needed somebody who would have fun with it.

Shock:  Talk about the look of your character.  It has a ’70s vibe…

Pucci:  I said I’m keeping the beard and I’m keeping the hair.  And he was like, ‘Eh, I don’t know about the beard.’  I got to have the beard.  So I beat him into it and he surrendered.

Shock:  The old school glasses are a nice touch, too.

Pucci:  That was Fede.  He wanted them to be a part of it.  My character is the professor dude who opens the book and it’s more believable.

Shock:  Let’s talk about the book and what it was made of…

Pucci:  That thing was disgusting.  I wanted to keep a page of that so bad.  The art was disgustingly good.  Whenever you see a movie that have cool books with cool graphics, I’ve always wanted to find one.  With this, I got to play with one.  It had flesh and hair and blood.  Nailed-in flesh.  The binding was scary as hell.


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