The Bloody George Report...

About that film Bruiser... Toronto, Canada... Finally, Legendary Director George A. Romero on Rockazine.com
interview by Sondra Faye

The Bloody George Report... About that film Bruiser... Toronto, Canada... Finally, Legendary Director George A. Romero on Rockazine.com interview by Sondra Faye

Sondra: Before I came here I watched again "Night of the Living Dead, and I'm a smoker, ummm, cigarettes... and I was wondering what was the brand of cigarettes that they were smoking in that?...
George: Gosh, I don't remember, I don't remember. I really don't remember.
Sondra: Was it Camel or Lucky, was that like the big thing?
George: Oh, I think he was, Harry Cooper - Carl Hartman , was smoking maybe Lucky's the little short ones in his pocket. I don't remember what I was smoking then.
Sondra: Now it's a big deal not to smoke and all this other stuff. ... Now you're actually doing a movie called Bruiser and we're in the corporate office of Bruisers. Where did you come up with the name "Bruiser"?
George: I have a fifteen year old daughter, 16 year old daughter now, and I heard she and some of her friends using that word to mean knock out, a real punk, babe, and I said that's cool it'd make a nice title. So it's about a magazine, well the title in the movie is a fashion magazine. It's like "DETAILS" that kind of magazine. and it's called Bruiser and it's also the title of the movie. Which we're hoping will be a Bruiser. In a different way.
Sondra : I definately think so, I was watching the dailys today actually I have been hanging around for hours and hours,
George: That's what it is; Hurry up and hang around.
Sondra :and of course drank like tons of coffee.. Do you drink a lot of coffee while you're on the set?
George: Not too much. I drink a lot of coffee. More than I should but not in wild excess.
Sondra: One of my friends is terrified of horror movies and she was wondering are you a good sleeper?
George: Oh yeah, I don't have any problem. Stephen King says that he has no nightmares cause he gives them all to you.
Sondra: Thank you Stephen.
George: I think that maybe that's part of it, people that work in horror I don't know unloading it somehow. I'm not afraid much in life except thugs on the street and atom bombs. I have no superstitious fears or supernatural fears or waiting to be abducted by aliens. I would dig it. But, umm, so I don't know what that is. some kind of boring fantasies or your mind trying to dig that stuff up, you know fears and why some people have them. I always like to work with more realistic stuff. I did three zombie films, but those are the only sort of supernatural films that I did. I think this guy from Bruiser, it's all in his head. I made a vampire film called Martin, I don't think Martin is a vampire, I think it's all in his head. I prefer to deal with themes like that...

to be continued...

This interview was conducted in Toronto, Canada