{"id":274,"date":"2016-05-07T03:22:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T03:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2016-04-26T05:14:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T05:14:11","slug":"interview-bill-moseley-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/07\/interview-bill-moseley-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Bill Moseley (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bill Moseley and friend at Housecore Horror Film Festival in 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(Horror stars tend to be the polar opposite of their on screen persona, and none more so than Bill Moseley: the star of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2<\/i>, House of 1000 Corpses<\/i>, The Devil’s Rejects<\/i>, Repo! The Genetic Opera<\/i>, the remake of Night of the Living Dead<\/i>, and dozens more, is infamously one of the nicest, softest-spoken members of the horror community. I had the chance to talk to him at the Housecore Horror 2015 festival about his career.)<\/p>\n

Richard Whittaker<\/b>: The first time I saw <\/i>House of 1000 Corpses, it was at a midnight screening at the Leeds International Film festival, and it was immediately clear that Otis was a hit. What do you think it is about him, and what you were able to bring to the part, that really affected people?<\/p>\n

Bill Moseley<\/b>: I don\u2019t really know. It\u2019s something that Rob saw in me that I did not necessarily see in myself, which was a sinister, sexy quality. There\u2019s that element that I never saw. I was more of a Chop Top guy. I always differentiated the two from centers of gravity. With Chop Top, it\u2019s all up in the shoulders. There\u2019s more of a sketchy feeling. There\u2019s the coat hanger and the lighter, I\u2019m scratching my head. It\u2019s all shoulder stuff. With Otis, it\u2019s all in the balls. It\u2019s thumbs under the belt, sitting back, \u2018fuck you.\u2019 I didn\u2019t really see that in myself, Rob did, which was very fortunate.
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\nThere\u2019s also, Otis is crazy, but Otis also has family values. Otis is also kind of practical. That\u2019s the difference between the Otis of House of 1000 Corpses<\/i> and the Otis of The Devil\u2019s Reject<\/i>. Otis of House of 1000 Corpses<\/i> is a little more spun, doing things like making poor Rainn Wilson into Fish-Boy, and having that crazy rap to the cheerleaders at the very beginning, about his brain covered with thick encrustations. But he\u2019s almost an anti-hero in Devil\u2019s Rejects<\/i>. Actually, that\u2019s the only time I\u2019ve ever played the same character twice.<\/p>\n

RW<\/b>: You do have a habit of dying.<\/i><\/p>\n

BM<\/b>: But I\u2019ve killed a lot more than have killed me. I\u2019m way ahead in my body count.<\/p>\n