Question: What appealed to you about the character of Carly?
Elisha Cuthbert: The character was most appealing at first because I was coming off of “The Girl Next Door,” which sort of was a great first film for me, but I wanted to do something extremely different.
And when Joel brought me “House of Wax,” I thought this is perfect because the genre is different, the idea is different, and the character is nothing like Danielle in “The Girl Next Door.” We kind of created Carly in the sense that she was a lot more tomboyish, not so particularly pretty – but pretty in her own way - and a little bit more together and driven. So that was sort of the basis of Carly. And I liked the idea of the brother figure, the boyfriend figure, and then sort of her own personality within this huge group of teenage kids coming together, which was kind of nice.
Question: What’s the appeal of William Castle’s work?
Joel Silver: I mean, I love what he did. When I was a kid I saw the movies and I remember one of my [production] designers, Mike Reva, actually saw “House on Haunted Hill” in the theater when the actual cardboard...
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