Ash gets distracted easily and so the story expands, we see where Ash comes from, he gives them a little more of a base of operations rather than being a very mobile show hauling a trailer all over the place. Mostly just Ash cleaning up his hometown, trying to establish a bad relationship with his father, rekindling an old relationship with his girlfriend and mixing up batches of ketamine with his buddy. "Well, I guess I'll go to bed now and get up and go right back to work." I'm, like, "Damn!" So that guy's done his time you've got to have respect for that.Ĭan you lay out some of the broad strokes for what we're going to see in Season two? He had an apartment, because they worked him so many hours.
#ASH VS EVIL DEAD MOVIE SERIES#
You're, like, "Lee, your trailer's right over there." He goes, "I'm good." First three series of his, he slept on the back lot. He never leaves the set really, he just finds a little corner and sits down. You never know until you actually meet the guy the guy could have been an asshole. What is it like having Lee Majors on set as Ash's dad? He was the wrong guy thirty-five years ago, and now he's really the wrong guy for the job and that made it an interesting character to play.
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Ash wears a man girdle now, he's got dentures, he dyes his hair. It could have laid an egg and people could have gone, "Hey, nice try." It took a hell of a long time to get to the series, but that's something we played into. What's your feeling about the reception the show has gotten so far? The guy's got something else going on and we need to find out what that is. He's not just some schlub in a motor home. I might even go Joseph Campbell you can start getting big epic story.
#ASH VS EVIL DEAD MOVIE TV#
The TV version seems to be a character on a journey with a real opportunity to evolve. He's a chatty Cathy now he never used to be that talkative. He has to work with other people, he has to talk. Now he has to be a hero, he has to interact, he has to be a leader, he has to be compassionate, he has to care and they have to work as a team now. It's the best character I've actually ever played, now because we're fleshing him out past the two-dimensional smarmy talking guy. Is it insane for you to be playing this character thirty-five years after the first Evil Dead? I don't say any word that I don't approve, so any word that Ash says has been approved by me. Every word out of my mouth is a word that I've approved. But I've brought a lot of ideas to the character. Some episodes there's not much ad libbing at all and others there's a shit ton. The intent is to show up and do the work that's on the page, but if the work that's on the page falls flat, it's our responsibility to assist them. Word is that improv is a big part of the series. The bad news is, that's the only thing they like.
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That's sort of good and bad news being an actor. You also may be stigmatized for the rest of your life, too." That's definitely part of it. Just, "Get ready, because this will be the most difficult job of your life, but potentially the most rewarding.
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What sort of survival training advice did you give your young co-stars on this show? Not much would be similar just because of the needs of each particular format.
#ASH VS EVIL DEAD MOVIE MOVIE#
Once they got morphed into doing a TV show, very little of that survived, because the entire premise of another Evil Dead movie has nothing to do with starting a TV show where we're finding our hero thirty years later. Those are random ideas that have been assembled by Sam Raimi. With where season one ended, have we seen whatever those concepts were? The first season of Ash Vs Evil Dead was partly based on some concepts for what was originally going to be Evil Dead 4.