However, any should agree that Luke Evans performance inDracula Untoldmakes it look easy.
He discussed that and more when we sat down with him at theDracula Untoldpress conference last week.
What was your first experience with Dracula growing up?
Was it a film?
It wasSesame Street, yeah.
And then Count Duckula, who was a vampire duck.
And then in my teenage years it would have beenBram Stokers Dracula[1992] by Francis Ford Coppola.
And then I stopped.
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Do you agree that your Dracula resembles, more than other ones, superhero characters?
They come from folklore; they come from Eastern European folklore.
Vampires were always able to transform into creatures of the night.
The dark creatures like bats have always been associated with vampires and using the darkness to their own advantage.
Can you be a monster and be a superhero?
Its an interesting question, isnt it?
I think what weve done with this story is make you question that.
Sometimes it needs a monster.
I mean its not how we live our lives now.
I think heroes are the people that go into houses when theyre on fire and save people in hospitals.
Thats a hero, not the monsters.
Ive done em all.
I dont know, I dont know.
Maybe Im an old soul.
Maybe Ive lived before.
And I guess maybe directors see a face that seems to have been lived in.
I know that my face has been lived in, yeah.
I dont know why that is.
Costume is a massive thing.
I think costume makes you stand differently.
It turned the cleaners heads, it turned the caterers heads, it turned makeups heads, everybody.
It was a really good moment.
Also, how does it feel to star as Dracula in your first lead role in a big-budget movie?
And I was like, I dont know, am I?
Okay, thats a title I havent got before.
I get it; thats fine.
I mixed that up.
So, Im mixing it up; its just that this film, you havent seen yet.
Regarding other challenges, what was your approach to being romantic in those scenes as a vampire?
He fights for his son, his only son, and its quite a beautiful thing.
Can you talk about the sword that you received as a gift?
Its beautiful, its perfectly weighted, its quite heavy; but it was quite difficult to work with.
And another thing: my wrists increased!
to increase the size of.
Ive got three, so there.
Theyre all on my wall!
Hes quite a statuesque human being.
But in this film, it was just great.
No, only that weve allowed it to have a perfect gateway to, he can go anywhere.
Draculas immortal, and at the point where the movie finishes, were already touching on 500 years.
Who knows whats been through and who knows what hes going to go to.
The options are endless, and I think thats where we want it to be.
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