Spencer Maybee talks XF2
April 14th 2008 04:36
Canadian actor Spencer Maybee talks with XFN about his role on the new X-files movie, his rugby days, and music. Here are a few highlights.
XFN: What was it like to film at the famously haunted Riverview Hospital?
I’ve worked there a couple of times before and it’s an amazing insight to see how mental institutions were constructed at the turn of the 20th century. It was a perfect place to shoot an X-Files movie and I believe they shot much of the series there as well. You can feel a kind of residue in the rooms. It gets a little lighter in the halls, but when you wander around and step into the rooms where patients were locked up you can feel that a lot of anguish went on in those rooms.
XFN: What kind of security measures did you have to go through in order to protect the secrecy of the movie?
Well, we weren’t given copies of the script. We were only privy to the scenes we were in. On set, they give you your sides with your name printed on every red page – they print them on red paper so that photocopying is made much more difficult. Then they collect your sides from you at the end of the day. Characters are named a bunch of different things scene to scene, so even if you did get a copy of something, you’d have no idea who was who. I was thoroughly impressed. I think they’ve done a fine job of keeping it under wraps.
XFN: Spencer your son Christian in the movie has a physical disability which is true of your co-star Marco . Did this inform your performance?
Marco was a really solid professional on set, and I have to say, that helps more than anything else when it comes to getting into character. I think the crews and the lights and all the equipment could have really thrown off any other kid, but Marco just took everything in like a young Al Pacino. The crew had pitched in to buy him a PS2, which he’d play around with sometimes between scenes or when he wasn’t needed and so we talked video games. Bonding with him a little over Grand Theft Auto kind of helped me feel like a young dad.
XFN: You mentioned previously that you worked with Gillian Anderson. Can you tell us what it was like to work with her? Had you any expectations?
She was a real joy to work with, a professional through and through, and really nice on top of it all. She was very present and grounded in the world of the story, which made it easier to ground myself and be the person that I’m supposed to be. I was excited to work with her because I’d watched the show a little when I was growing up and friends from school were really into the show, so I was really aware that I’d be working with the definite article.
Click here to read the full interview! Thanks again to XFN for the heads up (and the pic)!
XFN: What was it like to film at the famously haunted Riverview Hospital?
I’ve worked there a couple of times before and it’s an amazing insight to see how mental institutions were constructed at the turn of the 20th century. It was a perfect place to shoot an X-Files movie and I believe they shot much of the series there as well. You can feel a kind of residue in the rooms. It gets a little lighter in the halls, but when you wander around and step into the rooms where patients were locked up you can feel that a lot of anguish went on in those rooms.
XFN: What kind of security measures did you have to go through in order to protect the secrecy of the movie?
Well, we weren’t given copies of the script. We were only privy to the scenes we were in. On set, they give you your sides with your name printed on every red page – they print them on red paper so that photocopying is made much more difficult. Then they collect your sides from you at the end of the day. Characters are named a bunch of different things scene to scene, so even if you did get a copy of something, you’d have no idea who was who. I was thoroughly impressed. I think they’ve done a fine job of keeping it under wraps.
XFN: Spencer your son Christian in the movie has a physical disability which is true of your co-star Marco . Did this inform your performance?
Marco was a really solid professional on set, and I have to say, that helps more than anything else when it comes to getting into character. I think the crews and the lights and all the equipment could have really thrown off any other kid, but Marco just took everything in like a young Al Pacino. The crew had pitched in to buy him a PS2, which he’d play around with sometimes between scenes or when he wasn’t needed and so we talked video games. Bonding with him a little over Grand Theft Auto kind of helped me feel like a young dad.
XFN: You mentioned previously that you worked with Gillian Anderson. Can you tell us what it was like to work with her? Had you any expectations?
She was a real joy to work with, a professional through and through, and really nice on top of it all. She was very present and grounded in the world of the story, which made it easier to ground myself and be the person that I’m supposed to be. I was excited to work with her because I’d watched the show a little when I was growing up and friends from school were really into the show, so I was really aware that I’d be working with the definite article.
Click here to read the full interview! Thanks again to XFN for the heads up (and the pic)!
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