2008 Woodie Awards
'Wax' Cast Finds Filming a House of Pain
Hanh Ngyyen
Issue date: 5/3/05 Section: Entertainment
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LOS ANGELES- Imagine fleeing for your life through the woods. Now imagine doing it barefoot and clad only in red lingerie.
Paris Hilton had that dubious honor for her big-screen acting debut in "House of Wax," the latest Dark Castle horror remake opening nationwide Friday.
"My feet were all cut up," the celebutante tells Zap2it.com. "It was a real forest, and we were really running through it. I was bumping into trees and I couldn't see. It was scary."
Although the film's cast only had to pretend to fend off a psychotic killer, on the set they endured real physical challenges: from struggling with sets and prosthetics to suffering injuries and fatigue.
"It was pretty brutal, but ... it was worth all the running around in the forest and getting killed," says Hilton with a laugh, referring to her highly publicized screen death.
"House of Wax" centers on a group of randy friends who are sidelined by car problems during a road trip to the big game. They're forced to seek help in the backwater town of Ambrose and soon discover that a killer is targeting them to make them permanent additions to a wax museum.
As the film's first victim, Jared Padalecki's character is encased alive in wax and then posed mute and immobile in the museum. For the latter scene, Padalecki and a dummy resembling him were filmed separately in the same pose, so that the combined footage would show a wax figure with the moving eyes of a live person inside.
"You stay still and you can't blink and you're just looking around," he explains. "It's so weird because you want to be expressive as an actor, (but) you feel like jerking a little bit, they're like, `Oh, you jerked out of the way. You have to get back in (to the same pose).'"
Co-star Chad Michael Murray had his own claustrophobic experience involving wax. For the climactic scene in which the museum literally begins to melt and burn, the actor reveals how he was slipping around in a compound created to look like melted wax but wasn't as hot as the real thing.
Paris Hilton had that dubious honor for her big-screen acting debut in "House of Wax," the latest Dark Castle horror remake opening nationwide Friday.
"My feet were all cut up," the celebutante tells Zap2it.com. "It was a real forest, and we were really running through it. I was bumping into trees and I couldn't see. It was scary."
Although the film's cast only had to pretend to fend off a psychotic killer, on the set they endured real physical challenges: from struggling with sets and prosthetics to suffering injuries and fatigue.
"It was pretty brutal, but ... it was worth all the running around in the forest and getting killed," says Hilton with a laugh, referring to her highly publicized screen death.
"House of Wax" centers on a group of randy friends who are sidelined by car problems during a road trip to the big game. They're forced to seek help in the backwater town of Ambrose and soon discover that a killer is targeting them to make them permanent additions to a wax museum.
As the film's first victim, Jared Padalecki's character is encased alive in wax and then posed mute and immobile in the museum. For the latter scene, Padalecki and a dummy resembling him were filmed separately in the same pose, so that the combined footage would show a wax figure with the moving eyes of a live person inside.
"You stay still and you can't blink and you're just looking around," he explains. "It's so weird because you want to be expressive as an actor, (but) you feel like jerking a little bit, they're like, `Oh, you jerked out of the way. You have to get back in (to the same pose).'"
Co-star Chad Michael Murray had his own claustrophobic experience involving wax. For the climactic scene in which the museum literally begins to melt and burn, the actor reveals how he was slipping around in a compound created to look like melted wax but wasn't as hot as the real thing.