Michael Madsen Is Squinty, Strange
This entry was posted on 6/10/2007 7:27 AM and is filed under Interviews,Ephemera.
Forgot to mention this back when it occurred on May 19, but
Michael Madsen appeared in person at the Fangoria Convention in Burbank, and did
his best Tom Sizemore impression, squinting, smirking and acting quite odd.
He was talking up his participation in
Shifter, a Rage comic book series about a two-legged, sunglasses-sporting, Mob hitman werewolf. Set to launch June 27, the series is being inked and published with an eye already being cast toward big screen adaptation. Saying that he'd been "in Valencia shooting a motorcycle picture for
Quentin Tarantino until 3 a.m." (that would be Larry Bishop's
Hell Ride, produced by Tarantino), Madsen says that doing something for his five sons played a big part in tackling
Shifter,
but that also, "I'm trying to get away from the villain thing for a
while, and be a hero, instead of the one who gets thrown out of a
window by Steven Seagal." (Apparently Madsen momentarily confused
himself with... Gary Busey?)
Also on hand with Madsen were Amber Benson, who models/plays informant Kimmy in the series, and Rachel Miner, the ex-Mrs. Macaulay Culkin, who portrays assassin Poison. They appeared bored and increasingly irritated, while
Madsen kept interrupting the moderator, glancing around and pounding his cordless microphone on his armchair and repeating into it, "Thanksgiving!" in a deep voice, a reference to
Eli Roth, who preceded the awkward
Shifter panel with
a chat about Hostel: Part II.
