SUBMITTED BY Scooby
October 17, 2002 — Gabriel Mann, who will play Father William Francis in the prequel to The Exorcist, is studying the life of real priests for his role in the movie:
"I found a really fantastic parish priest in Venice [Calif.], who I've been talking to and going to services [with]," Mann said in an interview. "[I have] frankincense and myrrh in the apartment, then just my own private actor stuff that I do."
He promised that the movie will capture the tone of the original:
"I think that it's the [film] that seriously makes the closest attempt to get back to the elements that made the first one so great," he said. "To me, it's something that moves away a little bit from running-around-with-axes, chasing-people-through-woods kind of terror, to the kind of creeping, growing eeriness that starts to really permeate inside you until you realize you're really scared and really freaked out." |
