![]() The only reason she ended up showing it was because they weren’t going to cast me if they hadn’t seen anything I did before. Then she took it out of her cassette player and locked it in her desk drawer. She didn’t even watch the whole thing – just the first five minutes or so. MR: Man, how great is that? I had an audition for Eight Men Out, and I had given the casting director a tape of Henry. The store ended up calling my parents when the tape didn’t come back for three weeks and I was in deep shit. I didn’t want anyone else to see it because I was so disturbed by it. Henry was mixed in there with one of those stacks and I actually got in trouble because I hid it in my closet after I watched it. I was probably fourteen and had a local video store at the bottom of the hill from my house that would rent me all the tapes I wanted and not tell my parents. I’m glad you had such a pleasurable experience with the film.īMD: I’m not sure “pleasurable” would be the word I’d use to describe it. Michael Rooker: I’m glad to hear that, man. Rooker about Henry, and what followed was a candid conversation regarding film’s legacy, and just exactly what he thinks about the ratings board that attempted to damn McNaughton’s movie…īMD: I have to admit – Henry played a large part in my development as a horror fan. We were lucky enough to get a chance to chat with Mr. Now he’s become something of a household name thanks to The Walking Dead and Guardians of the Galaxy – mainstream megahits a far cry away from the borderline industrial film that kicked off his career thirty years ago. Working with John Sayles, Oliver Stone and Tony Scott, he became a regular “that guy”, appearing in classics and B-movies alike. In the meantime, Rooker cultivated quite the rep as a character actor that has since blossomed into renowned status by itself. This led to Henry being shelved for half a decade, its mythical status growing with each year that passed as it collected dust. The movie was so successful in its ability to unnerve audiences that the MPAA informed the writer/director he would never get anything less than an ‘X’ rating, no matter what changes he made in order to try and appease them. Shot for a mere $100,000 in and around Chicago, Henry is a blunt force, unflinching look at the day to day life of a drifting psychopath, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake as he moves from city to city. ![]() As far as first film roles go, few are as infamous as Michael Rooker portraying serial killer Henry Lee Lucas in John McNaughton’s Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.
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