"I'm Don Mancini, the writer/director of Seed of Chucky." "And I'm Jennifer Tilly, the star of Seed of Chucky." "We now bring you the running commentary for this movie... which I recommend for maximum viewing and listening pleasure... to listen to these back-to-back, Bride of Chucky and Seed of Chucky..." " 'cause we actually..." " He's just trying to help with his DVD sales." "The first thing that I have to say about this..." "He was so thrilled, how he made the sperm cover my name." " Yes." "That was..." " He said, "Has that been a first for you?"" "I said, "You know what, Don, I would have to say it is. "" "Seed of Chucky." "You might notice my name was above the title." "When Rogue Pictures came out with the poster... they put Chucky and Tiffany above the title, and knew... contractually, I was supposed to be first billed... but I didn't note that applied to inanimate objects as well." "I thought it was an inauspicious sign of things to come." "That they thought the dolls were more important than me." "That was some legal loophole that was taken advantage of there." "I think so, but I did sign off on it in the spirit and it was intended as ajoke." "Yes, if nothing else, as many of the reviews pointed out..." "Jennifer deserved some kind of good- sport-of-the-year award for this movie... if not an Oscar itself for..." "I remember the good-sport comments." "I don't remember reading any Oscar buzz." "I think this opening sequence actually cost more than the entire movie." "This opening sequence was done by a company in London called Fig Productions." "And one of the many title sequences they've done over the years... is the Batman title sequence." "Original Batman." "We were really lucky to get them." "We weren't sure that we would be able to do this sequence in the beginning... because we thought this might have to be sacrificed for budget." "Fortunately Focus gave us the extra money to do it." "I'm really glad they did because it kicks the movie off with a real bang." "We were able to get this fun sight gag here... with the "Made in Japan" stamp on his wrist." "And I think it's also just kind of gross and disgusting." "It's this movie that has a lot of sperm imagery." "I was really happy." "I was watching this movie with my friends." "At the beginning, they were like:" "" Jennifer, look, that's the inside of your vagina!" ""You outdid Sharon Stone. "" "This sequence was, in fact, the very first three-and-a-half days of production." "It's a really complicated scene... because it's designed to seem like a single, continuous shot... and I had to plan it really meticulously in advance... to disguise all of the cuts." "There's lightning flashes intermittently throughout the sequence... and often when there's a lightning flash I'll disguise a cut there." "But it had to be planned really to the... nth degree." "It was complicated and I didn't want to begin the shoot with this." "I was very wary of it." "But that's the way the schedule shook out so it's what we had to do." "But it turned out pretty well... as lot of viewers will note, fans of the genre... it's a parody of Halloween." "It's also a parody of several Brian De Palma films." "The sort of killer's point of view, and it turns out to be a dream." "This is one of the things we had to do." "When I got this part in the movie..." "I thought, "I can pay back all my starving actor friends..." ""reward them with small parts in the movie. "" "I made a big list of the characters... and which one my friends could best assay that role... and then Don said because this is a British co-production... you'll notice a preponderance of British accents in this movie." "Everybody besides the three nominal stars had to be English." "He actually had to rewrite it, so the doll ends up in England... to explain why there are so many English people in the movie." "The movie was made under the auspices of what is called... a European UK sale leaseback deal." "This film was, in fact, the least expensive of all the Chucky movies." "We made this movie for $12 million and shot it in Romania." "But about 65% of the budget was spent on..." "UK people and in the UK itself." "We did our post-production in London." "All our key production heads were English, as well as the actors that she mentioned." "By doing this, we got a $2 million rebate." "So the movie, in fact, ended up costing $10 million." "But I thought that the English content actually worked... because we already had a sort of Dickensian parody... going on with the character of Glen." "I thought it made good sense to cast Glen... with an English actor." "Well, in fact, Billy Boyd is Scottish... but he was able to affect the English accent very well." "He's from the UK." "Don is actually the master of justification... 'cause I remember when we were auditioning... the plan was the English actors would all do American accents..." " but they're not very good at it." " They're not." "After the first day... he'd be like, "I don't see why Jennifer's assistant can't be English." ""I don't see why the family can't be English. "" "That's very true." "It's odd, but..." "I mean I suppose that..." "They're funnier in their own accent, really." "Yeah, as with any actor, you know... probably any actor is going to be more comfortable in his native accent." " And why strip an actor of his..." " And speaking of stripping... this is the only nude shot in the entire movie." " Janet did an amazing job..." " Stephanie." "Wasn't her character's name Janet?" "No, you're thinking of Janet Leigh." "Janet Leigh was in..." "Rest her soul." "I wasn't on the set this day." "Stephanie Chambers and she was great." "It was awkward because when I was auditioning these actresses..." "I actually had to see their breasts... to make sure that they could play the role." "So that was a little awkward." "I had to do that when I was auditioning body doubles." "I had to look at a lot of actresses' breasts and it is a very uncomfortable feeling." "Stephanie's not shy, though." "When I was preparing the sequence..." "I showed her the storyboards 'cause I wanted to assure her... that it was going to be tastefully done on the set... and she wouldn't have to be completely nude." "But when I was shooting the bit where the camera's coming up... behind her in the tub, I could see through the curtain that she was wearing panties." "And you didn't tell her." "No." "I went to her and said, "I know I said you wouldn't have to..." ""but would you mind taking off your panties?"" "She said, "Oh, sure. "" "She flew all the way out for the special red carpet screening." "I remember she was wearing a fabulous Vivienne Westwood gown." "And she was perturbed that he did a reprise in the final credits... 'cause she said, "I'm actually naked twice in the movie. "" "Which is very important in a movie like this." "Also, Hannah Spearritt, very good screamer." " And Miss Tilly?" " That goes without saying." "This guy, Psychs, he was filming when I was off in London buying stuff." "I came back and everybody had a huge crush on him." "All the girls were very gaga over him." "I think he actually got it on with some of them." "His name's Keith-Lee Castle." "He's a great actor." "He reminded me of a young David Warner or Malcolm McDowell... who just had that kind of edgy, English quality." ""This grotesque abomination... "" "I think it's so funny that we're selling this as England... but you look at all those faces in the crowd." "They're so Eastern European." "All the faces..." "Romanians." "That's what Romanians look like." "This is one of the very few scenes that was actually shot outside." "Most of this movie takes place indoors." "We were just pathetically grateful to have two night shoots outside." "I came back and everybody was so happy." "They said they had the best time and were dancing under the moonlight." "It was a nice break in the midst of the shoot... because so much of the movie not only takes place in the house of Jennifer Tilly... but in that damn bedroom, which we'll have more to say about later." "We were in that bedroom for three or four weeks... with poor Jennifer tied to the bed, bound and gagged." "And grotesquely pregnant!" "It really just gets to you after a while when you're locked inside one room for so long... especially when that room happens to be so ugly... which that room was." "Again, I'll have more to say about that later." "Anyway, Billy Boyd is the voice of Glen and I think he did a fantastic job." "He was a really good addition to the doll family." "I had the idea of casting him about a year ago... when I saw the third in The Lord of the Rings series... and there is a scene where his character, Pippin, sings a song... and it just struck me that Billy had not only the accent... but also the boyish, ingenuous quality... an innocence that was required of Glen." "And then ultimately, the acting chops... to be able to do what was needed to be done later... when the character splits into two and he becomes Glenda... which required a distinctly different characterization." "I think Billy did a fantastic job." "This is Jason Flemyng, also well known to genre fans for..." "Wasn't he in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels?" "Yes, he was." "And he was in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen... where he played Jekyll and Hyde." "He was in..." "He's close personal friends with Guy Louthan, one of the producers." " That's how we got him." " That's how we got him." "It was fun, since this is a film within the film... and shortly, we pull back to reveal that, like many people in this movie... he's playing himself." "We pull back and reveal... that this is not really Santa Claus, but Jason Flemyng playing Santa Claus." "Yet another English actor on this American production..." " of Chucky Goes Psycho." " And why not?" "And this set, I remember... they were building it on the same sound stage as all the other sets... after Don expressly said:" ""It needs to be built on a second sound stage. "" "Yeah, I was not happy." "It was one of the few days I saw Don lose it 'cause there was banging and hammering... and because of the language barrier... when you would say "action" and "rolling"... it wouldn't get communicated a lot of times... and there would still be hammering going on." "My main problem with squeezing the set... behind the Jennifer Tilly house set..." "To do what I ideally wanted to do with the sequence, we needed a much bigger set." "We were quite restricted." "I was never able to pull back wider... to get a real sense of this landscape." "I guess it worked pretty well." "One of the drawbacks of shooting in Romania was that... you ultimately have a lot of design problems." "Just because it being a somewhat... not impoverished country, but it's only recently capitalist." "It's not like shooting in North America and you feel like:" ""I need a lamp," and you just run out and get it." "You have to pre-plan and bring in everything." "This is Guy Louthan playing Don Mancini." "He's playing me, and he hated wearing jeans and a T-shirt..." " Because he is a very elegant gentleman." " Very elegant guy." "This girl was one of the people who auditioned to play my assistant... which Hannah Spearritt ended up doing." "She's English doing an American accent, doing a pretty good job... but when she pronounces the word "dolls"..." "This is Tony Gardner." "He's the actual puppeteer." "Don wrote this part for Kevin Yagher who did the other puppets." "We couldn't get Kevin so Tony ended up not only creating the puppets... but starring in the movie." "This is Don's boyfriend here, Danny." "He said we could say he was his boyfriend as long as we reiterated... that he got the part on his own merit." "Danny is an excellent actor." "In fact, he is in the deleted Debbie Carrington scene... which is offered in a separate segment here on the DVD." "It was really awkward for me to have to go to him and tell him:" ""I had to cut your scene, babe. "" "I think he suspected that Don wrote that scene in... just so he would stay in Romania three weeks longer." "This is Hannah Spearritt, playing Jennifer's assistant, Joan... another inexplicably English person." "We went to that English well one time too many." "I think they did a really good job... of replicating the trailer set from Bride of Chucky here." "Remember Tiffany's trailer?" "It was a pretty good facsimile of it." "What I was saying before about design problems..." "In Romania, aesthetics and costumes and things like that... they're all kind of 10, 15 years behind." "So, fortunately, Jennifer Tilly being a wonderful clotheshorse... was able to bring in all of her own clothes." "Am I not mistaken?" "I think all the clothes you wear in the movie are yours." "They are now." "No, Oana, the costumer came out to Los Angeles... and we went shopping." "I filled in the gaps in the wardrobe with my own things." "I was going to say before, the voice you hear on the walkie-talkie... is the voice of Don Mancini... if you want to go back and compare vocal intonations." "When Danny says, "Has anyone seen Jennifer"... and I say, "Check the catering truck. " That's my Hitchcockian cameo." "I wanted Don to play Danny... because I thought it would be confusing when people look at the final credits... which says Guy Louthan plays Don Mancini... and Danny plays the AD and Don plays Danny." "But Don thinks it's obnoxious when people are too inside... which I think we walked that line a few times." "I think we could've gone a little bit further... and several reviews even indicated that they liked the inside Hollywood stuff... but felt like it seemed we didn't go far enough with it." "I tend to agree." "In fact, Jennifer had improv'd a few things that I really loved... that we ended up cutting because there was a fear that it might be too inside." "One of them was when the dolls are in the limousine... and Tiffany is rhapsodizing about Jennifer Tilly's career." "She says, " Jennifer Tilly... " What was the line you said?" "" Jennifer Tilly is a highly underrated actress. "" "I said, " Jennifer Tilly is a highly underrated actress." ""I saw her in this movie, Shadow of the Wolf..." ""with Lou Diamond Phillips, where she played an Eskimo..." ""and she looked really cold. "" "That was really funny." "I borrowed that from my sister, Meg Tilly, also a fine actress." "She was ranting about an ex-boyfriend of hers that was an actor." "She said, "He's never had an honest moment on screen. " And then:" ""Wait a minute, I take it back." ""One time it was raining and he looked like he was wet. "" "People always get a kick out of this shot here where Glen is booking down the road." "It's really well done." "You had mentioned before about Kevin Yagher and Tony Gardner..." "Unfortunately Kevin Yagher ultimately just wasn't available." "It came down to an availability issue... because Kevin was working on Lemony Snicket... and didn't have time to set up in the UK and Romania for this movie." "Fortunately, Tony was available... and David Kirschner and Corey Sienega, our producers... had worked with Tony on several films..." " and I think Tony did a fantastic job." " Tony was great." "He created Glen, the Glen doll." "He was pretty much responsible for Glen's look." "It was collaboration." "As with all the dolls, I wrote a certain look... and then handed the baton to Kirschner who's an extremely talented artist... as well as a doll creator." "One of the first things he did in his professional life... was create a line of dolls called Rose Petal Dolls." "And then Tony affected the physicality of it... but Tony had to step into a really difficult job." "We had less money to accomplish this movie... than any of the previous Child's Play movies, and less time." "We had a month less prep time and Tony and his crew... totally pulled it together and I think did a fantastic job." "I think we're really in his debt." "And he's also a really wonderful, funny guy to have around." "For me, as a first-time director, I was often incredibly stressed... and was really reliant on Tony." "He's just a really funny and calming professional presence on the set." "And didn't he also actually happen to have a head already?" "He did." "That was very helpful." "I wanted originally, as you'd mentioned a moment ago..." "I wanted Kevin Yagher to play himself." "And then when Tony took over..." "I asked Tony if he wanted to do it and he said, "Yeah. "" "And he fortunately did have his head already." "He saved us money." "Yes, I do." " You were great." "You were super." " Thank you, Mr. Man." "Can I call you Red?" "Listen, there's a whole lot of different ways I could do it." "So, Redman..." "I had wanted always to cast in this role... a celebrity playing himself." "I felt that we really needed yet another such figure to round out that kind of cast." "He was thinking to cast a real director like we were throwing around." "He was thinking maybe Quentin Tarantino... or Vincent Gallo or Peter Bogdanovich... people that he thought I could call in a favor with." "I had heard that Tarantino was a fan of Bride of Chucky... and we sent the script over to him and then..." "Too bad John Waters plays the paparazzi." "He could've played the director." "That would've been great." "I don't think he probably had enough time in his schedule to do that." "I don't think anyone would've believed that he wanted to have sex with me." "That's an important element of this plot." "But Redman was great... and I thought..." "They had shown us How High, which I hadn't seen in theatres... but it was obvious that he had really natural comic ability and charisma." "Because of his television show that was on Fox at the time... he was playing a variation of himself and I thought that he could..." "His show wasn't on Fox until after the movie... after you cast him in the film, 'cause the show came later." "But I'd heard about it." "I heard that he was playing basically himself and so I thought that we could just..." "Actually, what really clinched the deal is he came in and he was a huge Chucky fan... and in one of his songs, he actually referenced Bride of Chucky." "Yes, he does." "The phrase "bride of Chucky" is in one of his rap songs... and Focus thought that maybe we could get that crossover demographic with Redman... and Don thought that he would write a rap song for this." "But apparently he was too busy." "So there was a song at the end and..." "I'd never heard any of his rap music, and I was like, "That's Redman's rap?" ""That doesn't seem like something he would write. "" "Actually, it wasn't." "I called Don and said:" ""What happened to the rap song that Redman was going to write?"" "And he was like, "Oh, well... "" "I think the official explanation was... his label conflict or whatever." "But I think he just wasn't inspired." " No, I don't think that's true." " That's what I think." "STAGE BLOOD - 10Gal" "Don's looking out for the studio." "One of the things I loved about this movie is that Tiffany got a Hollywood makeover." "Like in Bride of Chucky..." "I was sort of disturbed by the fact that Chucky had such an expressive face... and Tiffany was sort of stiff, like she had BOTOX or something." "And Don said that it was because Chucky had been a star for 20 years... and he had like 32 muscles in his face, and Tiffany only had, like, 16." "Now they think Tiffany's gonna be around for a while... and they made more muscles in her face, so she's more expressive." "And they also glammed her up a little." "It has to do with the size of their heads." "Literally, you can fit more servo-mechanisms inside Chucky's head... than we could in Tiffany's." "But in the six years since the last movie, this technology..." "Here I'm sounding as if I know what I'm talking about... but my understanding of it after making five of these movies... is still pretty fundamental." "But the technology has advanced to the point... where she could be much more expressive." "I think, yeah, she's a lot sexier-looking in this movie." "She's sexier and she's more vulnerable." "In the first movie, I thought she was a little hard." "In this movie, I think she's more sweet." "I think Chucky has an adorable face." "It always looked like to me that Tiffany was older than Chucky... 'cause Chucky has a baby face... and Tiffany has a hard, partying, rock-'n'- roll-chick face." "But in this movie, she's a little more... sexy, I guess, for lack of a better word." "I haven't had a chance yet to mention Pino Donaggio... who did the music score for this film." "Pino Donaggio was basically my favorite composer... from the time I was 12 or 13 years old." "He did some classic Brian De Palma films... like Carrie and Dressed to Kill back in the '70s and early '80s." "I tracked him down and got him." "And it was one of the most thrilling experiences of this whole film for me." "So often in Hollywood, you meet your heroes... and they may be disappointing for one reason or another." "And Pino was just the greatest guy, such a nice man." "I love the score that he did for the film." " Yeah, Pino loved the movie, actually." " Yeah, he did." "And he was very inspired." "One of the things I love is whenever Glen thinks of his Japanese ancestry." "Right there." "You have that sort of Japanese hero music, which I love." "There is riff in here coming up soon." "I think it's called " Jennifer's Theme," or perhaps not." "It's when Tiffany is experiencing extreme fan idolatry." "It's this most beautiful, swelling theme music." "Pino had composed the saxophone theme for you, Jennifer... that we hear at one point in the movie, when Tiffany bares her breasts... in a scene later in the film." "There was a piece of it in your scene with Redman in the audition scene." "I ended up not using it." "Because I was so excited about having Pino do the movie..." "I very selfishly basically had him compose wall-to-wall music... so I'd have the option of using it or not later." "We've had makeovers." "We're movie stars." "Shit." "Barbie mode." "That's my cue." "No, this is Tony." "This is Tony coming in." "Tony was actually supposed to be limping in this scene... because he was grabbed by the balls." "But Tony is a master puppeteer and a not a very good limper." "So Don said, " Just cut the limp." ""Tony just walk regular. "" "I think you were a little cross that day." "It's like, "That's the worst limp I've ever seen in my life." "Forget the limp. "" "I think Tony was juggling so many balls, including his own balls... that I think that he had enough to worry about." "There is a whole scene that was cut out here... where Tiffany and Chucky play doctor with Tony... where they're saying, "Remove the funny bone"..." " and they're literally removing bones of..." " Of Tony's." "It was like, before they decapitate him, they tie him down... sort of Gulliver's, you know, Lilliputian kind of way... and start opening him up while he's conscious." "And Chucky just literally snaps off one of his ribs... and they're parodying the old game Operation... and Chucky says, "Remove funny bone. "" "He goes snap, holds the bone, and he goes, "That is funny. "" "But like so many things when you're making movies... we had to cut it for time." "This is really one of my most favorite shots in the whole movie." "The way the head goes soaring towards the camera..." "And look at this music." "This beautiful, lush romantic music." "I love it." "Yeah, well, as we established in Bride of Chucky... this is the thing that Chucky and Tiffany bond over, is the issue of violence." "Yes, Tiffany gets very turned on by blood." "Then of course, later, it's a very integral part of the story... that she wants to try to kick the habit." "I wanted to do a satire of family dysfunction in this movie... and violence is used as a metaphor for addiction." "So, instead of them being addicted to cigarettes or alcohol, it's murder... and Tiffany wants to kick the habit and Chucky does not... and that provides one of the conflicts in this family... as well as what we're establishing right here... the fight over the gender of their kid." "Obviously, he's neutral." "And I thought that was another really fun metaphor to put in a movie like this." "It just seemed like a really modern kind of question... this question for a child to wonder about his gender and his sexuality." "I think that it's not the sort of thing most people would come into a Chucky movie... that these issues are going to be dealt with... and I just thought it was very funny." "I think I'm going to call you..." "I think that one of my favorite lines... is when Chucky says, "He just hasn't had his growth spurt yet. "" "It's really true that you see what you want to see." "From now on, your name is..." "Glenda." "I love how you pronounce it Glinda, like Glinda the Good Witch." "Now here comes Jennifer." "This was actually the very last day of filming for me." " Yes, it was." " And I had been two months in Romania... and I saw myself on the video monitor... and I was appalled at how much weight I gained." "I couldn't believe the script supervisor wasn't saying anything like:" ""She doesn't match. "" "And when Don came up with the idea of shooting my feet, I was thrilled." "I was like, "Maybe we could play the entire scene on my feet. "" "Do you remember you slipped and fell on the first take of that?" "Don wanted more blood, and I've been on movies for 20-odd years... and they were pouring that blood on the floor and I knew for a fact I was gonna slip." "So I said:" ""You know what?" "Maybe we should just shoot it and not rehearse it. "" "And we shot it, and I was down like a log." "And I wasn't wearing underwear in that scene... under the theory that underwear would add bulk." "And I actually landed sort of spread-eagled in front of the camera... which was right down near my feet." "And it was wonderful because nobody laughed." "Everybody was like, "Are you all right, Jennifer?"" "I think because I would have cried if everybody laughed." "God, no." "I was just concerned that you wouldn't be able to finish your last day... and we would lose a day." "No, we were very concerned for your well-being." "So, when I did, 'cause Don wanted my foot, my beautiful Manolo Blahnik shoes... stepping right in the middle of the blood." "So we actually had two men holding me up, so you can see my foot slipping a little... but there's two men holding me up on either side of the camera." "Movie magic." "Jennifer." "Miss Tilly, were you having an affair with him?" "I don't know what you're talking about." "And here's the first appearance of John Waters." "John had been a Chucky fan for years, and I had been hearing about that for years." "I first heard about it from Justin Whalin who was in Child's Play 3... and then worked with John on Serial Mom." "He told me that John was a big Chucky fan and I'd read about it." "So I wrote this role for him, and we got him." "Everyone loved him." "We had such a good time." "So, John Waters cleverly ad-libbed... questions about my age." " "How old are you really?" - "Give us an exact date. "" ""Give us an exact date. " I was like, "Lovely. "" "There was also another scene that was cut out between him and Redman... where John Waters said:" ""You're not really gonna have sex with that... "" " What did he call me?" " A skag." "And Don came up to me and asked my permission." "He was like, "Do you mind if John Waters calls you a skag?"" "I was like, "No." "Go for it. "" "What year were you born?" "Give us the exact date." " I want to sit up front with you." " Sure." "Hey, you okay?" "Yeah, I am now." "So, are you a pair of ninja assassins?" "This is another thing that hopefully..." "I recall dealing with this with Vernon... when we did the color correction version for the DVD." "But that shot, the wide shot, with the dolls sitting on the limousine seat... with the rear projection was not terribly convincing." "I like the rear projection because it reminds me of the old '50s movies... where they're traveling through Paris and they're obviously on a sound stage." "I think it adds that sort of kitschy Hollywood feel to it." "That's exactly what I was going for." "Well, in fact, some of the look of this movie, I did have to..." "Yeah, I like how fake the Hollywood sign looks behind Jennifer Tilly's house... because I think it sort of adds a fantastical element." "I wasn't going for "fake" exactly." "I was going for stylized." "Yeah, but this isn't like a hyper-realistic movie." "But because of the problems we had inherent to shooting in Romania... and our low budget..." "I had to somehow make a virtue of that shortcoming... and Bride of Chucky had extremely elaborate production design... and photography." "I think it's a remarkably beautiful movie." "And we just didn't have the time and money to affect an identical look to that." "So I had to go in a different direction... and I said just a second ago, just make a virtue of that... and so what we ended up doing... was trying to go for a kind of stylized, almost comic-book look." "And I think that's most evident in certain scenes inside the house... and I can talk about that more later when we get to it, if I remember to." "The actress discovered the victim's body." "As of yet, there is no official confirmation..." "Okay, this scene in the limo, we had to actually re-shoot it... 'cause I originally played the scene like I was so exhilarated." "I was like, "Turn on the TV." "How do I look?"" "And Don said, "We have to re-shoot that 'cause it makes you look too unlikable. "" "Well, it made you seem insane." "I was like, "Miss Tilly is excited about what the added exposure..." ""will do for her career. "" "And Don is like, "No." "Because, Jennifer, a man is dead, after all. "" "Poor Tony has been killed." "You have to show some sympathy for that." "So we re-shot it, and I'm a little more subdued here." "I think it worked pretty well, but that actually speaks to the way... we had written this character in the first draft." " I had written Jennifer..." " Very unlikable." "...very much at Jennifer's urging, I might add..." "I was like, "You gotta make her the bitchy diva from hell. "" "...to be really bitchy and we probably crossed the line... and so we had to pull back and make her a little more conventionally likeable." "See, stylized, not fake." "Stylized." "Yes." "I love the music." "The music does so much here." "A CGI spider, as Don told me." "I was like, "How did you get that spider to move during the scene?"" "I think this is a very funny scene." "Glen, with this ribbon in his hair." "Your daddy and I will be right here." "If you listen in the background, you can hear weird sounds... that are ambient sounds that one might hear in a submarine." "Not really an attic." "Why do you kill?" "So here, we begin the issue..." "One of the central issues of the story is this question of the legacy of killing... that has passed down from generation to generation in this family... and the question of whether or not Glen is going to carry it on... is central to the story." "I wanted to parody movies like Ordinary People... and Kramer vs. Kramer in this movie." "Those prestigious family epics... that are marked by lengthy dialogue scenes... where members of the family are arguing and stalking around the room." "I thought that would be really funny, but it wasn't... until we got to Romania to shoot it..." "I realized how very difficult that was to have dolls stalking around the room." "So, as you'll notice here, they're planted." "That scene where Chucky goes, "I don't have a killing problem"... remember you wanted him to do quotation marks but they only did it with one finger?" "We just did it with one because he has the knife in his other hand." "It's this sort of thing with puppets." "You have to plan in great detail in advance every single movement they make." "If this were a human actor, he could just quickly put the knife down... and then pick it up again." "But you can't do that." " His hand's sort of glued to the knife, right?" " Yes, absolutely." "And then, this camera movement here, when we go down and see..." "This is like a rod puppet hand that comes into frame... with the fingers already helpfully crossed." "Okay, here's the first appearance of this set... this bedroom, which was so appallingly ugly..." "One of the problems you have in Romania is just set dressing, furniture, and lamps..." " and stuff like that..." " I walk into my house and I said:" ""Gee, apparently Miss Tilly's a collector of fine Romanian tchotchkes. "" "I remember you saying:" ""I guess she's just got really bad taste. "" ""What're you trying to say about me?" "Look at all that shit on the shelves. "" "But I actually think that this part of the house is pretty successful." "One of the things that I was mindful of doing was... since so much of the movie takes place in this house... you never want to feel like you're trapped in a box." "You don't want it to get visually boring." "So we designed it so that there are these big archways..." " that look from room upon room..." " The house was beautiful." "But then the set decoration is like what we had to deal with." "I want to say something about that Fear Factor line:" ""We wrote this movie we wrote. "" "I won't be waiting for my residual checks, Don." " Don wrote this movie seven years ago." " Five years ago." "Five years ago." "And the original line..." "I think he's quoting some sentiment he'd heard me say." "I was saying, "Originally, my idea of hell..." ""is to be sitting in a square underneath Whoopi Goldberg on Hollywood Squares. "" "And it took so long to get it to come to screen... that actually that was an obsolete joke... so we had to come up with something else and came up with Fear Factor." "What was I saying?" "I think the original line was:" ""Hell would be ending up on Hollywood Squares..." " "directly underneath Whoopi Goldberg. "" " Underneath Whoopi Goldberg." "Watch this line of Chucky's here." "Yeah, just don't let that player get into her pants." "This is an example of a line that because of the casting of Redman... this was a line I had to write on the spot." "And so, it's a line that Brad didn't record originally." "So I had to have a puppeteer do it, and then Brad post-syncs it." "I think you can kind of tell with Chucky's performance..." "I love the squeaking noise." "...the way his hand goes up weirdly." "Yes, the squeaking noise..." "I love all the ambient sounds that you put in, Don." "Nod of thanks to our sound designer, Tim Hands... who did a great job on this movie." "This is very funny." "I was really happy to get this joke in here." "Fangoria magazine... being a horror geek, I'm a huge fan of this magazine for 25 years... and I thought it would be the perfect magazine for Chucky to whack off to." "Now, this set, we shot this, as I said, in Romania... and one of the reasons we ended up in Romania... is that they have the second largest sound stage in all of Europe there." "Second only to the James Bond stage at Pinewood." "So we were able to build this house, a full-scale, Spanish colonial mansion." "It's a continuous set." "It's not just a facade." "You go in and there are the rooms of the house." "We're actually in there." "You got the house, the yard, the street, the street corner, all of that all in the stage." "It was pretty impressive." "It felt like the set for Hitchcock's Rear Window." "It was so enormous." "And all the floors had holes in them so the wires for the puppets could go down." "If you weren't careful, there were all these little round circles in the floor... that you had to be careful not to fall through." "All the sets have to be built - 6 feet off the stage floor... so the puppeteers can fit underneath." "There's a whole realm underneath." "So here we get the Bound references." "Which the studio didn't want Don to put Bound in this script... 'cause they thought it was too inside." "But fortunately, we fought that battle and won." "What Don did is he came up to me on the set and he goes:" ""I rewrote it to make it generic." "Like Redman says:" ""'Remember that movie that you and that chick was making out?" "'" ""And he said, 'Can you just ad-lib Bound?" "'" ""He said, 'I'll say she ad-libbed it." "I couldn't control her. "'" "So that's what we did and the ad lib came on top of an overlap... so you couldn't cut it out." "I think that the studio a little bit didn't know what a cult following Bound has." "And my only problem was, when I had lunch with Gina..." "I had to explain to her how she is referenced in the movie more than several times." "But she was okay with it." "She's, like, the ultimate good sport." "I told her the whole thing." "She's like, "I guess that's okay. "" "What did she think of the final reference, the fingering line?" "I forgot." "There is one line in the movie that I so didn't wanna do... and it's where Tiffany is pretending to be Jennifer Tilly... and she said, "Bound is on TV." "I'm fingering Gina Gershon. "" "I didn't want to do that line 'cause I thought it was super crass." "Corey Sienega, the other woman producer on the film, not that I was a producer... didn't want to do it, either." "Don was like, "We'll never use it." "Just say it. "" "So we have it, and, of course, it gets a huge laugh." "So after I told her about the Bound reference, the threesome reference... then I remembered the fingering reference." "So I had to have lunch with her again." "I said, "There's another line. "" "I said, "It's kind of crass. " Then she said, "Well, that's okay. "" "'Cause I told her she wasn't gonna like it." "She said, "I thought maybe you were gonna say something derogatory about me. "" "She's fine with it." "Speaking of crass, we have Chucky masturbating here." "I felt like, after the sex scene between Chucky and Tiffany in the last movie... how do we top that in terms of outrageousness?" "So I came up with this parody of Rear Window and Body Double... where John Waters is lurking outside the windows of Jennifer Tilly... and seeing all these insane goings-on." "I have to say we're super-delighted with Brad Dourif's oral representation... of what Chucky sounds like masturbating." "I mean, he just went on and on and on." "I think Chucky would be quite frightening in bed because he is very verbal, isn't he?" "He's very verbal and very ferocious." "When he comes, it's like he's killing somebody... which is sort of apropos... for Chucky and Tiffany's sex life, I think." "Here's something I was looking forward to getting on film:" "Jennifer Tilly being confronted by her onscreen alter ego, Tiffany." "I have to say it was very surreal." "Facing Tiffany and being chided for my bad career choices... and threatened in my own voice." "When she says this..." "I liked when she said, "I'm your biggest fan," and I scream and run." "These shoes here, 5-inch high heels." "Don said to me, "Are you sure you want to wear these heels in this scene?" ""'Cause you do a lot of running. " And I was like..." "Okay, that was not my ass there." "I just want to make that clear." "We had a Romanian stunt double for me... who was about 5 feet tall and 5 feet wide." "I was trying to do all my own stunts... but when I wasn't on the set, they took my dress." "We only had one dress 'cause it's Versace, $2,000 on sale." "They put my dress on the stunt double and did that overhead shot... which I would have done, if I'd known my ass was gonna look like that." "This, in the set here, is an interesting aesthetic thing... where, what I was talking about before, the rooms beyond rooms... and I made sure to have highly contrasting colors from room to room." "The red and the blue in the background, the yellow in the room we're in." "It's kind of inspired by the aesthetics... of films by Dario Argento, like Suspiria." "These really bold colors." "That's something we really wanted to do in this movie." "She improvised that, I did not write that." "The one playing Chucky is a little boy and the one playing Tiffany is a little person." "In Bride of Chucky, Debbie Carrington played Tiffany... every time they had to have a moving shot." "But we couldn't afford to have her in Romania all the time... so that was a local little person." "This day I realized how ridiculous my career was... lying on my back all day, being artificially inseminated by a doll." "Jennifer was such a good sport in this movie... and I think it was really helpful for me that I had as the star of the movie... someone who's a friend of mine because I can't imagine anyone else doing some... of the takes. "Come on, Jennifer, could you please spread your legs?" "It'll be funny. "" "The only thing that Jennifer really baulked at doing was vomiting." "Ultimately, she even agreed to do that." "I even did that." "Anything for my art." "In the original scene, he takes off ribbon and he puts a little hunting cap on him." "What happened to the hunting cap?" "Not in the budget?" "No, it's just that the act of putting a cap on the doll's head..." "Added an extra three hours?" "Any time the dolls do anything it takes forever." "Also, in the first draft of the script, Glen has curlers in his hair..." " not the ribbon." "Right." "That would've been a nightmare to deal with." "So I had to simplify it." "Here's one of the scenes that we actually shot in LA." "This I shot for four nights in Los Angeles... doing establishing shots and locations in Mulholland Drive." "This is actually Griffith Park, not Mulholland Drive." "It's certainly the same kind of view of the Valley and the Los Angeles basin below." "You have to have that iconic look of the city spread out below." "Here is our Britney look-alike, an actress named Nadia." "This whole scene became..." " So controversial, yes." "... kind of a mini cause celebre... because Britney Spears' people would not let us use her music... and then it went back and forth." "And she had heard her likeness was used in the movie." "Then we had to do a disclaimer in the trailer... which was another reason why you should go see it." "After the end of the trailer... it said: "Britney Spears does not appear in this movie. "" "A friend of mine who saw this movie, he was so into it." "He didn't question that the dolls could talk or any of these other things... but at this particular point he didn't suspend his disbelief." "He said, "How do the dolls know where John Waters lives?"" "That was the only thing he didn't believe in the movie." "In fact, what I tried to do to answer that question is... in the establishing shot of that building... we see the big logo on the side for Celebrities Revealed." "That's an effects shot." "Because Celebrities Uncensored wouldn't let us use their name." "Celebrities Revealed, it's established earlier in the movie... is the company or the show that John Waters' character works for... and the dolls overhear him say that." "It's a bit of a leap." "But do you really want to go into seeing..." " Them getting out their Thomas Guide." " Getting their Thomas Guide." "Looking in the phone book, doing a whole montage." "This was an interesting scene to do." "John is sliding along the side of the set... and he had to be glancing in different directions." "He asked me to put pieces of tape on the wall... so he had very precise places to look." "I like when he takes the knife out of his mouth." " His teeth go..." "On the knife." " You hear the little..." " That is really good sound design." " It is." "This was another scene I was trying to do, kind of a parody of Brian De Palma... where you go into the slow motion and have someone go, "No!"" "It's an important turning point for Glen, too... because he means to save this character and he ends up accidentally killing him... and, of course, Chucky is thrilled." "And as an homage to John Waters, Don gave him a really gruesome death scene." "The more he likes you, the better you die." "I'm still alive at the end of the movie, I don't know what that says about me." "You've died in several gruesome ways in two movies." "In Bride of Chucky, yes." "You died in the bathtub, you've died twice as the doll." "A little souvenir photograph." "That's prosthetic makeup that Tony Gardner did... in the previous shot when you see the skin melting away." "That was done by our special effects company, Stargate." "John was such a good sport." "At the end of the day, everyone wanted their picture taken with him... and he was soaked in blood, he had that stuff all over his face... and he posed for pictures for 20 minutes." "He was thrilled to be violently killed by Chucky." "He's the funniest man." "John was exactly what you would hope he would be." "He was extremely nice and utterly filthy-minded." "Here we are in this incredibly ugly set of Jennifer Tilly's bedroom." "One of the things we did to try to make this visually interesting..." "I had them put on these Venetian blinds." "Well, they're actually plantation shutters... these kind of American Gigolo type Venetian blinds... so that we could have those patterns of light on the wall behind." "Anything that we could do to make it visually interesting." "I don't know how successful we were... but Vernon Layton, our DP, did a good job of creating some visual interest here." ""The sweetest voice Tiffany ever heard. "" "We just got back from Berlin, and there's a lot of references to my voice... and to Tiffany's voice and how we admire each other because we sound exactly alike... and in Berlin they looped the entire movie." "So I wondered what that was gonna be like... one actress in Berlin doing my voice and doing Tiffany's voice... and there's so many references to the unique timbre of my vocalizations." "We'll just have to rely that the Germans will, as in all foreign territories... they're all going to dub these characters with the same voice... and with a voice that can be made fun of." "This is a funny scene where Tiffany is doing step number 9... in the 12-step process of making amends." "This is not the first actress that I had... do the voice on the other end of the line." "The original actress was American, but we couldn't use her... because we had to have an English actress." "So I had to do this a second time." "Fortunately, she did it pretty well... and this still gets big laughs." "I know." "The guy that she calls... that Tiffany calls on when she's having a relapse..." "I was trying to suggest my friend Tracy Fraim who's a brilliant voiceover actor... and Don goes, "Is he English?"" "Even the voiceover actors have to be English, so..." "But the guy who did it ended up to be very good." "A lot of fans have asked..." "I sometimes look on the Internet sites... and they ask about the necklace she's wearing." " What do you call that, a choker?" " A choker, yes." "A little choker, which I guess is kind of goth." "It's certainly in keeping with her overall look." "But it's also designed to mask ajoin." "Here's my favorite scene." "Which I did not want to do." "But she was a good sport." "Part of the way I got her to do it... was she vomits into this bag with her likeness on it." "He added extra vomiting noises after I went home to make it a little more graphic." "Look at how clean I vomit." "There's nothing on my face." "Anything?" "Still makes me laugh." "I think this is so funny." "It doesn't take much to make me laugh." "Don wanted me to vomit... because he said, "Otherwise, you won't know it's a plot point. "" " It is a plot point." " "It's ajoke, but it's also a plot point." ""That's how you can tell she's pregnant." "She has morning sickness. "" "The original scene was I'm at the set... where Alexis Arquette is tied up to the bed and I'm being all sexy." "Then all of a sudden, I throw up on his chest." "I said, "I won't do that. "" "Then Don said, "How about you leave suddenly and do offstage vomiting?"" "I was like, "Well, maybe. " He said, "Please," and we came up with this... obviously because there ended up not being... an Alexis Arquette-alike or anything in this movie." "Okay, this movie, Don directed me to be very sympathetic." "So you see some kind of excellent acting going on here." "More so than the scene warrants, I guess, and actually at the end of the day..." "I was quite sad at how alone Jennifer Tilly is in the world." "I called up a friend and I was crying." "I couldn't figure out why I was so upset." "It was because I was acting too hard and so I really felt it... which I tried to avoid it at all costs, but..." "I think it works really well for the character here... because she, the character, goes from being very selfish and self-involved... and here she is..." "Her values are changing." "I liked how you played it." "Very still and kind of serene." "And I liked my dress because I think I look skinny in this scene." "You look very beautiful here." "" Jennifer. "" "He's very funny here." "We loved how he pronounces "vasectomy. "" "He's like, "I got a visectomy. "" "He actually rearranged a lot of the dialogue to make it more street." "Which was great." "Yeah, like when he said, "Who the baby daddy?"" "Or, "I ax you." ""You had never lain with man before. "" "Redman is just a natural comic, I think." "He's very funny." "Don had a little bit of worry, because when he wrote the line about the vasectomy... he's like, "Redman is playing himself." "Maybe he doesn't want to say 'I had a vasectomy'..." ""in case people think the real Redman had a vasectomy. " But he was fine with it." "You're still pronouncing it "Redmen. " You're still doing that." "We had to re-shoot a lot of scenes because I was saying "Redmen. "" "And I had to go back and loop in "Redman. "" "This scene, in fact, I shot in September, in London." "This bit, where Tiffany calls the Recovery Hotline... was originally included in the deleted Debbie Carrington material." "That scene can be seen on another part of the DVD." "I re-shot it in this way and tied it in to Redman... so it just all felt a more organic part of the story." "That's one reason we had to cut out the Debbie Carrington material." "I don't want to repeat myself... 'cause I'm doing the commentary with Debbie on that part of the track later... and I don't want to be repetitive." "It just made more sense to have Tiffany be responding... to her urges to kill Redman, rather than to kill Debbie Carrington." "I think this scene turned out really well." "The doll's performance is really good." "I think here, too, you really feel for her, the doll." "Redman was not into the fine Romanian cuisine... and he was supposed to be eating like a pig." "Because wasn't there a scene where Tiffany winks at him and says..." "Yeah, when she's under the table she did a kind of "oink, oink. "" "But I ended up taking that out because it was a little too goofy." "But he didn't want to eat the roast beef and all that stuff." " He had chicken." " It was horrible." "That roast beef was like barely braised." "It was salmonella city, so he had some chicken cutlets." "You can see on his plate, from the kitchen and they looked so delicious." "I had some chicken cutlets, too, even though it wasn't in my scene." "If you watch closely you can see he never swallows really." "He'd just chew and after I'd yell, "Cut," he'd spit it out... which was really very pleasant." "The wine was real wine, so after a couple takes I was feeling no pain." "The biggest trouble I had with Redman in this scene was to get him to sit up straight." "It seemed to be a point of pride with him." " That's a hip-hop thing, that slouch." " I guess." "He just did not want to sit up straight." "Here we get to some really good gore." "I intentionally wanted to make this movie gorier than all the other ones." "The other movies, particularly Bride of Chucky... we did this sort of stylized violence thing, which I really like a lot, too." "That's marked by such scenes in Bride of Chucky as... when your character got killed in the bathtub, the bubbles, and everything... which I think is really cool." "But with this movie I wanted to do something different." "That's a visual effect." "That crack is a visual effect." "Poor Glen." "This is where he's really starting to get torn in different directions by his parents." "He doesn't know what sex he is... his parents are lying to each other, and there are all these family secrets... and he's starting to crack, as we can see by his twitching eye here." "Poor Glen." "A lot of people say they think Glen looks like David Bowie." "I love the Pino Donaggio music for the eye twitch." " Our Martha Stewart joke." " Here we had..." "They're switching around." " What's that football coach?" " Jon Gruden." "Couldn't get the footage." "The NFL wouldn't give us the footage." "Originally Chucky is watching the Jon Gruden footage... where the fans are all holding the Chucky dolls." "Then she switches to Martha Stewart." "'Cause as you recall in Bride of Chucky she was a big Martha Stewart fan." "It's kind of terrible, but when we heard Martha Stewart had been indicted... we were really happy because ourjoke is really topical." "If she had been acquitted... then we would've had to cut that joke, which we really liked." "It's not a negative comment about Martha Stewart." "It's sort of a comment on the American justice system... and how everybody sort of really went overboard going after her." "It's a very old kind of joke, but it's still works." "You sort of know you're gonna hear that scream... after she goes off-screen." "It's still very funny." "This scene coming up is a sort of Brian De Palma meets Doris Day." "Brian De Palma often does split-screen sequences in his movies... and I have a lot of Brian De Palma parody in this movie... and I wanted to do a split-screen sequence." "I thought it'd be funny to do this where Tiffany's on the other end of the line." "She's pretending to be Jennifer." "Starts to look like The Brady Bunch, too." "When I did Tiffany doing Jennifer..." "I tried to do Tiffany's approximation of what she thought Jennifer would sound like." "So, you can see I'm doing a little bit huskier voice... but Tiffany has very tiny lungs, so she's not quite accomplishing... the full Jennifer Tilly magic." "I think you really did a very good job of creating a very slight distinction." "Slight, but definite distinction between the two characters, which is really important." "Don wanted me to play this scene very real." "I was trying to do, like, comedic screaming and crying." "He was like, "No, it has to be real. "" "We have plenty of goofiness going on in this scene... as well as the movie overall." "That was really me under the sheet." "I wanted it to be the stunt person." "But Don actually thought it'd be funnier if it was the real me." "We just had the "fingering" line, which does get a really big laugh." "That was me slamming my head against the wall." "That doll only had an animatronic face, so I had to do all the violence myself." "We did about nine takes of that scene." "This scene is a holdover from a previous scene... were I am trying to come on to Chucky to inveigle him into untying me." "Thankfully, that scene was cut." "It was a scene that was in the script... where Jennifer is using her feminine wiles on Chucky." "To get him to untie me so we can have sex." "This is all that remains." "Him sort of reaching for my gargantuan bosoms... and then Tiffany having a twinge of jealousy." "What the hell is this?" "There was also an idea that you had, Jennifer, that I thought was really funny... that we ended up not doing because it was too complicated." "You had suggested that when Tiffany appears here in the movie..." "It's important that we set up the hair spray... because that's an important murder weapon in a few minutes." "But you had suggested that Tiffany then would have dyed her hair dark... to be more like Jennifer, which I thought was really funny." "We wanted to do a parody of Single White Female." "We wanted to have scenes... where Tiffany is emulating my actions, my mannerisms and stuff." "And then starts dressing like me." "This just cracks me up to see Jennifer in the background... sort of like watching this family argument happen." "What did you say?" "You were playing it like you were watching a soap opera on TV." "This scene is sort of the most Ordinary People-like scene in the movie... where the big family argument..." "I think also this scene, in terms of the lighting... is a good example of how our DP Vernon Layton... was really able to maximize... interesting patterns of light on the walls and things like that... to provide visual interest... in a set that really kind of lacked it." "This is a really important turning point for Glen here... when he says he doesn't know if he's a boy or a girl, but he doesn't want to be a killer." "And, of course, not what Chucky wants to hear." "No matter what happens... we'll deal with it together, as a family." "Now, this speech here, when we were recording it..." "Brad Dourif, he saw the script and it was about a page long... and he was like, "Hold on a second." "This is a very important turning point..." ""in the genesis of Chucky. "" "He's been doing the Chucky movies for 20 years." "He said, "This is the first time... "" "It's not this speech." "It's the speech later... when he decides he's not going to be a killer anymore." "Yeah, okay." "Forget it." "Forget what I said." "I'll remind you to come back to that, 'cause that is very interesting." "That is not the real Redman, the real Redman went home... and we found the only other black person in all of Romania to be a stand-in." " Redman." " Redman." "And the guy was so excited to be part of show business." "He came to the set day after day getting that Redman makeup on." "It was Redman when we see his face, but the dead body lying on the floor... is a guy named Alex." "I don't remember his last name." "He actually was an Olympic athlete." "A runner in Romania." " Really nice guy." " Yeah." "Jennifer, I love you." "I love you." "This character, Stan, is played by..." "He's also an English actor." "Fortunately, he was able to affect a good American accent, named Steve Lawton." "My big plot was that I thought I was going to fix Jennifer up." " That didn't happen, unfortunately." " It didn't happen." "I'm just not into hunky guys." "I felt so bad for him, actually." "Those socks that get stuffed into his mouth are actually my socks." "And I brought them intentionally because it had to be clean socks." "Remember Oudy our prop guy on the set?" "He'd be standing around... and in between takes he's holding the socks under his armpit... and Steve is looking at me like, "Don... "" "And so I had brought clean socks because I anticipated this problem... so that poor Steve could have clean socks." "I felt so bad for him." "I felt bad for you, too, Jennifer, but somehow it seemed... even less dignified for a guy to be lying there gagged like that." "I remember I was really annoyed because before they tied him to the bed... they took off his shoes and socks and his jacket." "I was like, "Okay, we understand Jennifer Tilly was shoeless when she was captured..." ""but why did they take them off?"" "And Don's like, "I thought it would look better that way. "" "And Corey and everybody in the movie was always at the monitors like:" ""Oh, my God, he's got such nice biceps. "" "This scene, I hope, viewers can make the final verdict themselves... but I intended this scene to actually have some real suspense." "Some of the reviews of this movie, for the most part... applauded the comedy in the movie... but they felt it may have come up short in the scares department." "I had felt that with Bride of Chucky... so much of what people liked about the movie was the comedy... and I wanted to continue in that vein." "We tried to make it as scary as we could." "But once you bring the dolls front and center, put them in the spotlight... it's inevitably gonna rob them of their mystery... and they'll become less frightening." "I think that this scene actually has some legitimate suspense to it... and you actually do feel kind of bad that this character gets killed." "Hannah is so likable." "And it's really important that it operate that way." "Similar in Bride of Chucky, the character played by Gordon Woolvett... the kids' gay friend." "It's very important in the midst of all this outrageousness... that there be a murder that happens that the audience not applaud." "That they actually resist and don't want to happen." "As I recall, when Gordon got hit by the truck and exploded... the audience did applaud because it was so spectacular." "They did applaud, but I think they felt bad." "Exactly." "I hope that that works in this way." "In fact, a couple of reviews indicated this." "So I think we were pretty successful." "I really like this murder." "It's something that we try to do with these movies." "With any horror movie, you try to set up an expectation... and then subvert that expectation." "So we very elaborately set up this notion... that Chucky is lurking behind her with his knife... so you think that she's gonna get stabbed, and then from out of nowhere, suddenly... she gets fired up and burned to a crisp." "Dang!" "Now here comes another really big turning point in the story... where we think that this is Tiffany who's committed this murder... but, in fact, the audience is in for a big surprise." "One of the things about the line where Glen says, "I fired her"... there was a scene that was cut in the earlier scene with the puppeteer... is that he would say to Glen, "Do you want to be fired?"" "And Glen would hold up his fingertips and you could see they were all singed." "And he would say, "No, no." "Anything but that. "" "So this was a playback to an earlier scene that was cut." "Well, it's still in the movie where he says:" ""If you don't get in line, I'll have to fire you. "" "We still have that in the movie, but we did cut the singed fingertips." "But here..." "I loved everything about Glenda." "I mean, I was really looking forward to doing this parody of Psycho and Dressed to Kill... with the horror movie convention... of the man who dresses up in drag and becomes a killer." "I thought that that was an interesting destiny for this character to encounter... and just the idea of playing it out with the doll was hilarious." "I thought that the look of Glenda was hilarious." "I thought Billy Boyd did a fantastic job." "It really reminded me of Monty Python." "Kind of like English tradition of going really over the top in that drag queen way." "When we were recording it..." "I just would have to cover my mouth to keep from laughing." "I thought it was so funny." "At least I spent time with the kid." "Glen, wake up." "Stop it, Mummy." ""You'll wrinkle my dress. "" " My friends all love that line." " It's very funny." "But I think it's also genuinely disturbing." "Yeah." "I think people find Glenda very disturbing." "What's coming up here after Tiffany slaps him and brings him back to himself... and just to see his reaction to what he's become when he looks in the mirror..." "Coming up, I'm getting a little ahead of myself here." "But it's kind of poignant, and I was going for that." "I think that it was kind of risky... because some people were wondering whether going for this kind of pathos... whether that it really belonged in this overall comedic sensibility... whether it would really work." "But I felt that, in a way, this is the movie's... raison d'etre in a way." "This is dilemma's character..." "Rather, this character's dilemma." "But I thought the most subversive thing we could do with this movie... is to make you really feel bad for a doll." "Yeah." "You have empathy for the poor kid's dilemma." "Pay no attention to little Miss Potty Mouth." "She's hormonal." "Now, one of the things about this scene..." "I'm sorry." "I was just going to say this is a true horror movie moment for me:" "The idea of giving birth to twins." "Poor Jennifer, tied to this bed for weeks." "Weeks and weeks and weeks with a pregnancy pad... which I figured out a way not to actually wear it." "I would just slide it under my nightgown." " It was hot, wasn't it?" " Yeah." "It was hot and it was heavy." "I love the squishy noises." "Like I just sort of eject the baby with amniotic fluid." " They're really disgusting." " He put in some pretty disgusting noises." "Now, this sequence, I always knew even before we shot it... that this would be very challenging... because we've so much action that takes place in this room." "It was inevitably going to be very cutty, because the dolls can't move." "I mean, whenever the dolls move around... it just requires so much effort and time and money even... and I didn't want the movie to get really static." "I think that our editor Chris Dickens, who also cut Shaun of the Dead... did a really great job of keeping the energy up... and also Pino's music, I think, kind of, stitches it together... in a way that keeps everything moving forward." "These are actually Romanian orphans." "I think people who only see newborns in movies... are always surprised to see real newborns because those babies are so big." "No wonder I was screaming, trying to pass those kids." "Chucky, first he has to choose." "I beg your pardon." "Sorry." "I love the music here." "Now we're coming up to the scene that you were alluding to... where I had kind of a difference of opinion with Brad about this... is that I felt that having written all these movies... and Chucky always had the same agenda... which was to transfer his soul into a human being." "I felt that it was, you know, now 16 years on, it was really important... that we do something with that." ""Shit or get off the pot" as it were... and so I just thought that it would be an interesting twist... to have Chucky decide that he wants to remain a doll." "But Brad really questioned that." "Unfortunately, he couldn't be here to do the commentary today... because he's very busy with his TV show Deadwood." "But one of the things that Brad keeps in his head when he plays this character... is Chucky's rage, and that rage is based in Chucky's... incredible desire to get out of this body and into a human body." "And so he felt that this new idea of mine may counteract that." "But I think that part of what he was responding to was that this speech... as originally written, wasn't quite working." "And so Brad and I went on and sort of rewrote it together." "It sounds very small and simple, but it was really important... one of the things Brad added was the line that's coming up right here where he says:" ""I don't want to be your chauffeur. "" "Here it comes." "And I don't want to be your chauffeur." "That was Brad's idea and I think it's a really important idea... because in so much of this movie, Tiffany is kind of in charge." "Yeah." "She's kind of castrating." "He's a little bit henpecked here." "But I thought that was part of the point of the movie... because I wanted to show another side of Chucky... and I wanted to show him kind of mired in domesticity... and, of course, Chucky's not gonna sit still for that forever." "So this is where he's really putting his foot down and reasserting himself and saying:" ""No, I'm not gonna let you dictate my life." "This is what I'm gonna do. "" "And, of course, it causes this separation between the two of them literally... where Tiffany decides here she's gonna leave him." "I hope I'm not sounding like one of those pretentious jerks... who make these schlocky movies, and is like, "Well..." ""really, the hidden meaning that's going on here... "" "But, in fact, when you're writing and acting these things and directing them... you do have to keep in mind the mindset of all the characters... and even though it's light-hearted and silly..." "I think that's why people identify with Chucky... is that, Brad, when he was doing the voice of Chucky... he wasn't being patronizing or anything like that." "He spent just as much time on Chucky's monologue... as he would've done on a Hamlet monologue." " Absolutely." " He wanted to make sure he knew... had all his motivation clear, all his beats, and understood where it was going." "From my point of view, I feel very lucky for having both of you in all these movies... because Jennifer and Brad do not condescend to this material... and a lot actors would." " It really elevates it." " I tried to but Don wouldn't let me." "I simply will not let Jennifer condescend to the material." " Slap her..." " I was trying to take shortcuts... like fake screaming, fake crying." "There was one day, though when we were shooting in this bedroom... and you were tied up... and I always would take it for granted that..." "That I'd be absorbed." "The puppets are so complicated that a lot of times I would just say:" ""I know Jennifer'll be on it." "I don't have to worry. "" "So I'd just watch the puppets... and one day, I look over at you, and Jennifer's like..." "She was supposed to be in terror." "Jennifer was just sort of glancing off to the side, like she was doing laundry list." "I go, "Cut." "Jennifer, what are you doing?"" "Jennifer goes, "I'm sorry." "Is my head in this shot?"" "I thought it was off-camera." "I was thinking about things I was gonna buy in London." "They know you're not a killer." "They didn't say you were mentally competent." "Genre fans may recognize this guy." "This is Nicholas Rowe... who, about 20 years ago, played young Sherlock Holmes... in the Steven Spielberg/Barry Levinson movie, Young Sherlock Holmes." "I was such a geek." "I was so excited to meet him." "Oh, my God, Nicholas Rowe!" "And he has 20 years' worth of work since then." " All I wanted to talk about..." " I remember him from the posh toff... the marijuana growing guy in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels." " No, that was Jason Flemyng." " He was in it, too." "He was, really?" "You remember the two upper-class kids selling marijuana?" " That was him?" " Yeah." " I had no idea." " When he opens up the cage?" "He was great." "I think we should be filling here." "Say something funny." "Here, I was looking at these two babies, and when you do the close-up shot..." "I mean, the babies were so in it." "Wait, they didn't do the close-up shot." "One of them we already saw, but one of the babies was cute... and one was a little bit less cute." "So we put that picture, kind of, under." "But now that I know they're orphans, I feel really bad." "This is like another set that..." "We went in the direction of having very bold colors... and I don't know how successful it was." "Some people might just say it's ugly." "But I was going for something really bold." "I love that the little Glen holds out his arms... like he's gonna catch me from falling." "I did all my own falls in this, except for that one, the overhead shot." "Now we get the Shining parody." "This got one of the biggest reactions in the movie." "In fact, this was in the original script where Chucky has this line... you know, we were talking about subverting expectation before." "Here's his line." "I can't think of a thing to say." "Believe it or not, there were some people who didn't get that line and said:" ""No, Chucky shouldn't be at a loss for words." "He should say 'Here's Chucky. "'" "I said, "That's utterly predictable." "He can't say that. "" "Here I had to go back and re-loop it so she says, "And switch"... because, I guess, in the test screenings... some people didn't understand the concept that they were gonna switch bodies." "There was some confusion." "So we changed it." "Okay." "This part is really pretty sad... and I guess Brad and I were feeling some genuine emotion when we were voicing." "It is kind of sad." "Because he loves her." "You always kill the one you love, if you're Chucky." "Yeah, I mean, to me, you watch this scene and it's like, "Domestic violence. "" "The story of this movie, if you did it with human beings, it would be way too sad... but since they're puppets, it's hilarious." "You know, the mother leaves the father." "The father says, "No one leaves me. "" "And he tries to kill them." "This is so funny." "This is a great example of Jennifer's improvisational brilliance... where she really cut the treacle when Tiffany says:" ""Especially your dad. "" "She always has to one-up him." "Very funny." "And then I just..." "I love..." "Actually, in the next scene where this doll is here." "She now has the big chop mark in the middle of her forehead." "So you just know if there's another Chucky movie..." "Tiffany's gonna have a big scar on the middle of her forehead." "I think we'd have to give her another makeover." "I don't think Tiffany's sit still for a scar on her forehead." "This is a big turning point for Glen's character... because he's getting in touch with what he thinks are his Japanese roots." "This was written in my script five years ago... to be this big parody of The Matrix." "Of course, The Matrix at the time was extremely popular." "Now we're five years on, so it feels a little bit dated." "But we couldn't afford to do the full-on fight scene anyway... so we had to really minimize this... and I think it's a little disappointing." "You kind of expect that this fight is gonna be a little more elaborate." "But it happens very quickly." "But I think emotionally, it still works... because I think that, you know, it's shocking... that it's not Glenda committing this murder." "It's Glen." "When I was directing the puppeteers, I said that... this is like a self-righteous murder." "Glen knows it's the right thing to do to cut out this cancer out of their lives." "But it devastates him." "This scene, I think, is the most grotesquely violent scene in the entire movie... oddly enough, because it is a doll." "But I just like the flesh and the bone and the blood... and then when he takes off the head." "It's just really nightmarish, I think." "It's great that Chucky says, "Attaboy. "" "He's proud of his kid as his kid is killing him." "Again here, I felt that this was really important that this reaction..." "Glen being emotional about it..." "There were some powers that be that wondered about this... and wondered whether it was appropriate to include this crying." "I just thought it was really important and fortunately they let us keep it." "Everybody on the set was crying." "It was really sweet." "The puppeteering was really good." "The way you hold his hand." "I thought it worked very well." "And I like this pan here." "And the music there, the haunting children's voices." "Pino Donaggio is very famous... for using vocals in his music." "When I first met with him, I told him:" ""We gotta use children's voices in this movie. "" "We actually got to use the London Symphony Orchestra... which was really exciting." "This scene, I always saw it as a little bit of a parody... of a children's birthday party in Mommie Dearest." "We did have a lot of Joan Crawford references." "For example, when Tiffany is hitting people over the head... with my Golden Hanger Award... we were hoping that would elicit fond memories of Mommie Dearest." "I'm sort of doing a little Joan Crawfordy character here... the Jennifer inhabited by Tiffany's body." "I thought that would be interesting." "I thought Sian, our key hair and makeup person, did a really good job here... of affecting a very different look here." "This is what Tiffany's idea of what a movie star would look like." "Yeah." "This was my first day on the set, I think." "Yes, I think it was." "Yeah." "It was definitely early on in the schedule." "I remember that." "It was the first day, 'cause I remember the first three days with all the children." "Oh, God." "Don't remind me." "My first week as a director ever, I had to deal with 50 screaming children... in a birthday party scene." "It was a nightmare." "I was thinking, "What was this stupid writer thinking?"" "We'll miss you." "Thank you, Miss Tilly." "God bless." "That little girl who plays Glenda was very good." " She's very spooky." " She's creepy." "She's very beautiful." "She's English, of course." "As is Rebecca Santos who plays Fulvia." "The name Fulvia is a nod to Todd Haynes' movie, Safe." " "Fulvia" sounds like "Vulvia," doesn't it?" " It does, but it's not meant to." " Here's another great visual effect." " CGI." "I had green contact lenses, but they just weren't green enough." "I love how the eyes come over the children's birthday party." "And now, the movie comes full circle." "Whereas we began with voiceover... with Glen as a doll at the beginning of the movie, narrating the story... now he closes the story." "This little girl cuddling up to me was the sweetest little girl." "It's interesting, 'cause none of these kids spoke any English at all... but they were riveted by my story." "What they didn't know is Jennifer's improvising all this stuff... where she's telling them the story of Tiffany... and she says to this little girl:" ""She was a little girl just like you, only she was cuter and smarter. "" "But in the character of Tiffany, of course." " Right." " I adored these kids." "Is that the kid in the front that had the line that he was practicing..." "Yeah." "The little boy is a German boy named Paul, as I recall." "His mother was very insistent... that he get his close-up and his line." "Probably by the time she sees the movie, she's gonna be quite unhappy... that this kid lost his line." "We CGI'd that tic." "I was like, "How did you get him to do that?"" " This tic here." " CGI'd it." "Because he couldn't do it." " That was David Kirschner's idea to do that." " He is five, after all." "Or six." "This is a very cute little kid." "We close out with a nod to Carrie." "Now we have what I always call the curtain call." "I got this idea when we were doing post in London." "Shrek 2 came out and I saw that movie... and it ended with this sort of thing, with a reprise of scenes from the movie." "I thought it would be really funny to do that... with a montage of all of the death scenes since virtually everyone in the movie dies." "It would be funny to do a montage of death scenes... to show each actor at their most undignified." "It just seemed in keeping with the tone of the movie." "It seemed to really get a good response." "I think that this rendition of the Blondie song..." " Great rendition." "Who does this song?" "... is quite good." "I forget the name of the band, embarrassingly." "Corey Sienega was heavily involved in all that... as she was with the music in Bride of Chucky." "In Bride of Chucky, they had a great rendition of Crazy... like a punk rock rendition of Crazy." " I think it works quite well." " This is one of my favorite parts, actually." "This would make a good music video." "Yeah, it's fun." "It's just a fun way to end the movie." "This is where Stephanie is like:" ""I was naked twice in the movie, at the beginning and the end. "" "I thought Stephanie..." "She's a really good actress... but she had a particular kind of beauty about her... which reminded me of actresses from the vintage Hammer films." "In the original, where he doesn't die... before he can say, "I love you," in the original you had him saying..." "He finally gets it out." "He says, "I love you. " And Don had me going, "Thanks. "" "That was in the bitchy diva version." "But then he thought maybe that made me seem a little too hard." "It was funny." "We give pride of place here in the curtain call to Brad Dourif... who has been doing Chucky for 16 years." " Just an amazing actor." " Fantastic actor." "Should we keep blabbing through the credits?" "I remember on the Bride of Chucky DVD... we started talking about the next movie because we already..." "Really?" "What did we say the next movie was gonna be?" "In fact, I had the story pretty much set in mind... and I remember I talked about it with a lot of specifics in it." "I'm sure it changed a lot." "It had some changes, but there were still some real specifics." " The whole idea of you playing yourself..." " Right." "We didn't really talk much about that here on the commentary." "I felt that Jennifer... was such a successful presence in Bride of Chucky..." "I wanted to find a way to bring her back... though we'd killed off the character of Tiffany." "So I thought, "What if I just have you play yourself?"" "And since I'd become her friend, I felt like..." "I can't think of a more interesting character for you to play than yourself." "Fortunately, Jennifer was really up for that." "I was excited about playing myself." "Turned out we couldn't use a lot of the elements in my life... because the studio or the powers that be were worried about getting sued." "A simple thing like putting a picture of me with my friends up on the wall... they're like, what if one of the friends said:" ""I didn't give permission for my image to be used in a Chucky movie. "" "I brought in all my magazine covers, which were obscure magazines... like Lesbian News, or, you know..." "And all my awards were like strange awards." "I wanted to use them all." "But it's so complicated." "You have to clear everything." "So, actually, we ended up with sort of a generic version of Jennifer Tilly." "I don't think there's anything generic about Jennifer Tilly." "Yeah, but this was not the real me." "But the only thing that we came up with..." "We came up with a lot of ideas for the new sequel to Chucky." "But I don't..." "Should we talk about them?" "One thing we can talk about is some of the joke versions." "When we were shooting in Romania... and we really were feeling a bit depressed and tired... and thinking, "Maybe the next movie should be Chucky Goes Hawaiian. "" "But then we realized they'd probably just send us to the Romanian coast." "Yeah, shoot it in Romania at the Black Sea." "Actually, they had a tremendous amount of trouble on this movie finding palm trees... for the exterior shots, and they finally fished three of them out of the Black Sea." "What had happened was we were shipping in some from Egypt... and they were on the ship and they never made it." "We were told that they had fallen overboard." "But I think that was just bullshit... because there was a lot of corruption happening on the fringes of the movie." "You never knew what was really going on." "But what other ideas for the next movie..." "I Know What You Did Last Summer where a bunch of kids run over Tiffany... and then Chucky just goes crazy." "That was my idea for Chucky Goes Psycho." "In the five years between Bride of Chucky and Seed of Chucky... when the Seed of Chucky project had sort of hit the development wall..." "I knew it was only a matter of time before they'd bring him back... but I doubted that we would get to make the script." "I thought, if anything, we'd have to start with something new." "And so I had this idea called Chucky Goes Psycho... which is a title we used in this film... but where it all took place at the Bates Motel... and the Tiffany doll ends up getting run over by a group of kids... who are partying at the Bates Motel." "It just sets off this rage in Chucky... where he just starts killing them all off one by one." "Anyway, until the next Chucky movie, hopefully sooner than later... thank you for watching and listening." "I really hope you enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed making it." "We did enjoy making it, as grueling as it was." "Yeah." "I can't think of a thing to say." "Fuck it!" "Oh, God!" "That is the ugliest thing I've ever seen in my whole life!" "It certainly is." "Who sent it?" "That's strange." "It doesn't say." "Where could it have come from?" "I don't like it." "It's staring at me." "It's probably one of Uncle Arthur's little jokes." "I don't think it's funny at all." "Darling, I'm just going to have a shower." "Be there in a minute." "Claudia, I told you not to leave your toys lying about." "Good God!" "You are hideous." " Claudia." " What?" "I have a bone to pick you with you, young lady." "We had an agreement, didn't we?" "But, Daddy, I didn't leave it there." "In a civilized society, our word is our bond." "I don't know what you're talking about." "Just because it's your birthday... that doesn't mean that you can relinquish all..." "Richard, what was that?" "You killed my mommy and daddy." "And now you're pissing your pants you're pissing your pants you're pissing your pants" "Wake up!" "You're pissing your pants!" "And now, ladies and gentlemen...  what you've all been waiting for..." "Shitface!" "And the greatest ventriloquist in all of England:" "The psychotic Psychs!" "This grotesque abomination..." "He ain't even anatomically correct." "Don't laugh." "It's a serious condition." "Six years ago, I found it in a cemetery back in the States." "Little fucker tried to rip me throat out." "I was trying to give you a hug." "I don't know much about myself." "I know I'm an orphan." "I know I'm a freak." "And, of course, I know that I'm Japanese." "But why do I have such terrible nightmares?" "Filled with hate and blood and guts." "I'm not like that at all." "I wouldn't even hurt a fly." "There he goes, back to his family." "I envy him." "Sometimes I wonder about my own parents." "Were they Zen masters?" "Did they serve the emperor?" "Sometimes I wonder what my mom and dad were really like." "So, you don't believe in Santa Claus?" "Trust me, honey, tonight I'm going to make you believe." "You wait and see what Santa is bringing you, you naughty girl." "No, I can hear you fine." "You're not breaking up." "Sheila, I just said you're not breaking up." "You're breaking up with me?" "Wait, you're breaking up with me on Christmas Eve?" "Sheila, you have got to be fucking kidding me!" "Well, that's just great." "God!" "I knew it!" "You're not real." "You were never real." "You know what that kind of disappointment... can do to somebody?" "Do you have any idea how that can fuck with your mind?" "Fuck with your mind!" "Fuck with your mind!" "Fuck with your mind!" "Fuck with your mind!" "Chucky is broke again." "This is bloody ridiculous." "Cut!" "Kill the snow." "Get off me." " Tony, what was that?" " I'm sorry, it's..." "This is unprofessional, and I can't work like this!" "No, Jason, I'm sorry." "Please wait." "We're here in Hollywood, where production is underway... on the new horror flick, Chucky Goes Psycho." "The film tells the urban legend of Chucky and Tiffany... two dolls supposedly possessed by serial killers." "The dolls were found at the scene of a string of real-life murders... which remain unsolved to this day." "You guys, I think Tiffany's left arm is loose again." "Yeah, I'm looking for Jennifer." "Does anyone have a 20 on Jennifer?" "Check the catering truck." "Jennifer." "I got you a Skinny Quick." "Miss Tilly, we're ready for you on set." " Jennifer, I am so proud of you." " For what?" "For sticking to your diet." "Thank you." "What's going on in the world today?" "Julia Roberts is getting $25 million for her next film." "Julia Roberts." "I'm so tired of hearing about Julia Roberts." "You know, I should have played Erin Brockovich." "I could have done it without a Wonderbra." "Julia stole that part right out from under me." "And you know how she did it?" "She slept with the director." "That's what I think." "Jennifer, you know that's not true." "How come I don't ever get any of the good roles anymore?" "How come nobody takes me seriously?" " Nice tits." " Thank you." "Look at me." "I'm an Oscar nominee, for Christ's sake." "Now I'm fucking a puppet." "I've got no fan mail, no paparazzi, no stalkers." "Well, there must be something I'm right for?" "Let's see." "Hip-hop superstar turned director, Redman... is still looking for the right actress... to take the female lead in his upcoming Bible epic." "That sounds good." "What's the role?" "The Virgin Mary." " What's so funny?" " Nothing." "It's perfect." "It's just what I need to reinvent myself." "The Virgin Mary." "I always loved the way she wore robes... and her hair off her face, kind of like this." "Joan, get Morty on the phone... and tell him I need to take a meeting with this Redman." " Right away." " Okay." "That's a wrap for Access Hollywood." "Reporting from Hollywood...  where, as you can see, Chucky and Tiffany are alive and well." "You can catch their movie in theaters next Halloween." "Thank you, Chucky." "Fuck you very much." "I'm no orphan after all!" "Well, you were shit last night." "You are going to have to be more scary." "Scary?" "Let's rehearse, shall we, all right?" "Hello." "Look, you got to learn to tap into your killer instincts... give in to your natural impulses." "Or else I'm going to have... to fire you." "Hey!" "Come here!" ""Mary, you are truly a vision of unsullied innocence..." ""unique among all women..." ""as pure as the virgin snow." ""But I ask, what is troubling you?"" "" Joseph, husband, there has been a miracle." ""As I stand before you, I must tell you..." ""I am with child. "" ""But, Mary, how could this be?" ""In accordance with God's wishes..." ""we have never lain together as man and wife. "" ""Yes, it is true." ""And I beg you that you believe me when I tell you..." ""I have never lain with any man at all." ""Do you believe me, Joseph?" "Do you?"" " Do you?" " Yes, I do." " You were great." "You were super." " Thank you, Mr. Man." "Can I call you Red?" "Listen, there's a whole lot of different ways I could do it." "Not just the way you saw." "I could do it faster, I could do it slower." " I could do it as a rap." " No." "You already showed me a side of the character..." " that I've never seen before." " Thank you." "But I think I'm going to have to go with my first choice." "Thanks for coming by anyway." "I mean, really, I'm a huge fan." "I really want to work with you one day." "We should call..." "Excuse me, I hope you don't mind my asking..." " but who is your first choice?" " Julia Roberts." "But thanks for coming by, anyway." "Listen, Red." "I've been giving a lot of thought to this project... and I have a lot of interesting ideas... about the character." "I was thinking... maybe you would like to discuss it in a more intimate setting." "Just the two of us." "I didn't know you were that passionate about the role." "Oh, yes, I'm very passionate." "So, shall we say my place?" "8:00?" "Pardon me, sir." "Sorry." "Sorry, sir." "Don't mind me." "Excuse me." "Oh, dear." "Mom?" "Dad?" "I've dreamed of this moment all my life." "I know this must come as quite a shock." "It's going to be an adjustment for all of us." "Look, I still have the necklace you left me." "I've always wanted to know, what do these words mean?" "Is it our family motto?" "Please say something." "It's because of the way I look, isn't it?" "For pity's sake, please wake up." ""Wake up"?" "Ade due damballla..." ""Awake. "" " Tiff?" " Chucky?" " Who the hell are you?" " Shitface." "Now, what kind of a name is that?" "Where are your mother and father?" "Judging from that face, my guess is they're hiding." "Shut up, you asshole." "Well, come on." "It looks like the kid fell off the ugly tree... and hit every branch on the way down." "I mean, you got to feel bad for the parents." "I wonder what they must look like." "Oh, my God." "What?" "No." "You didn't..." "We didn't..." "Sweetface, come to Mommy." "What's going on?" " Where are we?" " In Hollywood." "I saw you on the telly." "Chucky, wake up." "Look at us." "We've had makeovers." "We're movie stars." " Shit." "Barbie mode." " No, they're puppets." "They don't walk and talk by themselves." "Listen, if you want them to work..." "I'm going to have to take them apart." " Is Mommy ill?" " The courts thought so." "Heads up!" "They're stark raving mad!" "Hey, you're pissing your pants." "Chucky, she just had an accident." "You mean, "he" had an accident." "Don't look at me." "See, what did I tell you?" "A beautiful little girl." "What?" "Are you blind?" "That's my boy." "He just hasn't had his growth spurt, yet." "Don't worry about it, Son." "You're a late bloomer, that's all." "And it's high time that you had a real name." "Let's see." "I think I'm going to call you..." "Glen." "What kind of a name is that for a girl?" "Don't listen to him, honey." "From now on, your name is..." "Glenda." "Run, Glenda." "Jeez, what a mess." "There you are, Mr. Goodbar." "Jennifer Tilly." "Hello." "Oh, my God." "You look so real." "You look so real." "You are cuter than my last boyfriend." "I think we make a lovely couple." "Jennifer." "Miss Tilly, were you having an affair with him?" "I don't know what you're talking about." "Pete Peters, Celebrities Revealed." "Jennifer, what did you see?" "You want me to draw you a picture?" "Would you?" "Somebody give her a piece of paper." "Look, I'm not gonna draw you a picture, okay?" "Don't feel bad." "You're an actress not an artist." "What were you doing when you saw the body?" "No comment." "Jennifer, I love you." "Jennifer I love, you." "Is it true that you and Redman are in talks... about you starring in his new movie?" "Yes." "As a matter of fact, that is true." "I have..." " Can I have your autograph?" " Okay, sure." "Hold on, you forgot the head." "Excuse me." "Jennifer, how old are you really?" "Paparazzi scumbag!" "What year were you born?" "Give us the exact date." " I want to sit up front with you." " Sure." "Hey, you okay?" "Yeah, I am now." "So, are you a pair of ninja assassins?" "What?" "Are you hit men for the yakuza?" "We're not from Japan." "We're from Jersey." "Just think, Jennifer Tilly is playing me in a movie." "It's absolutely perfect casting." "But that voice!" "I know, she sounds just like an angel." "Now, I've got it all figured out." "I'm going to transfer myself into Jennifer... and you're going to transfer yourself into Redman." "I'm down with that." "We'll ditch these plastic bodies once and for all... and we'll be Hollywood's hottest couple." "What about me?" "Don't worry, Glenda." "I've got that figured out, too." "You're going to be a real live girl." " Boy." " How?" "Well, I'm not getting pregnant again, I'll tell you that much." "My mother always told me:" ""Once is a blessing." "Twice is a curse. "" "Well, that would explain your sister." "The only sensible option is a surrogate mother." "HEY!" "Jennifer, I have something important to say..." "Hold on a second, Sweetheart." "Hello?" " What are you doing?" " I'm busy." "I do have a life, you know." "Turn on the news." "Were you having an affair?" "The actress discovered the victim's body." "As of yet, there is no official confirmation...  as to whether or not Miss Tilly is a suspect." "Jesus!" " Can you believe this?" " Are you okay?" "I've had better days." "Listen, Joan, I need you to do something for me." "I need you to get me a bottle of champagne and bring it by my house." "What for?" " I've got a big night tonight." " Tonight?" " With who?" " Redman." "Jennifer, what are you up to?" "Thank you, Joan." "Come on, Stan, it's just business." "He'll be out of there by midnight." "Oh, my God, she's a complete slut." "Nighty-night, Glenda." "Sleep tight." "Leave it on." "Sweetie, there's nothing to be scared of." "Your daddy and I will be right here." "Why do you kill people?" " Excuse me?" " Why do you kill?" "It's a hobby, really." "It helps us relax." "Am I going to be a killer?" "Of course." "It's been a family tradition for generations." "But violence is bad, isn't it?" "They said so on TV." "Not "violence. "" ""Violins. " Violins are bad." "That screeching music's gonna ruin the goddamn country." "Chucky, Glenda's right." "It's time we owned up to it." "We have a problem with killing." "I don't have "a problem" with killing." "I like a little killing now and then." "What's wrong with that?" "Killing is an addiction, like any other drug." "But we're parents now." "We have to set a good example." "Let's quit, Chucky, right now." "Cold turkey." "You have got to be kidding." "Promise me, Chucky, no more killing." "No." "No more killing." "We can't do it anymore." " A thousand times no." " We have the future to think of." " We have a child!" " Fine!" "All right, already." "I promise." "Thank you, doll baby." "You're a sweetheart." "Now we really will be the perfect family." "Did you hear that?" "Maybe you should forget the director and fuck the exterminator instead." "So, how do I look?" " Never mind." " Jennifer, this is beneath you." "Think about what you're doing." "What are people gonna say?" "Who cares what people say?" " But don't you see how evil this is?" " I don't wanna hear it." "You're prostituting yourself so you can play the Virgin Mary." "Joan, I don't wanna hear it." "This is so evil." " You're going to hell." " No." "Hell would be ending up on Celebrity Fear Factor...  in a worm-eating contest with Anna Nicole Smith." "Which you'd win." "He's here." "Let yourself out the back." "And while you're at it, why don't you leave your key on the counter?" "What are you saying?" "Well, you think I'm so disgusting." "You think I'm going to hell." "I'm only trying to survive here, Joan." "God knows I wouldn't want to drag you down with me." "I'm saying you're fired." "Now, in artificial insemination, timing is everything." "So you'll have to hurry." "That shouldn't be a problem for you." "Yeah, just don't let that player get into her pants." "I don't want him touching my woman..." " till I'm him and you're her." " Right." "Aren't you going to give me a hand here?" "Too tall." "Lezbos." "Done her." "Here we go." "Come to papa." "Cheers." "You know, I wasn't bullshitting when I told you I was a fan." "That's so sweet, Redman." "Which of my films is your favorite?" "That movie when you and that chick was making out." "Bound." "Everybody likes that one." "You still in touch with homegirl?" " Gina?" " Yeah." "Yeah, sure, we're friends." "Close friends." "Very close friends." "Maybe, the three of us could hang out together some time." "You know, I would really like that a lot." "Okay." "I'll see if I can make it happen." " Bottoms up, baby." " Skol." "I was wondering... what's it gonna take to make you see me as a virgin." "Well, you tell me." "A masturbating midget?" "Get it, mini-meat." "Sweet Jesus, God bless the little people." " I don't know if I can do this." " Why not?" " What will people say?" " Man, fuck what people say." "Know what I'm saying?" "This was meant to be, baby, for real." "Know how I know?" "Because the man upstairs told me so." " Really?" " Hell, yeah." "Look, Mel Gibson ain't the only one God's been talking to in Hollywood." "He personally told me that you was my Virgin." "Well, I guess..." "What the hell?" "Pig." "And you..." "You should be ashamed of yourself." "Where's your self-respect?" "You know what my mother used to say about dirty girls?" "She said, "You can always smell it..." ""on girls who sell it. "" "By the way, Miss Tilly, can I have your autograph?" "I'm a big fan." "What am I supposed to do with this?" "Now, Miss Tilly, I know you're frightened." "You're probably even wondering if you've gone completely insane." "But I promise you, tomorrow you're going to wake up... and this will all seem just like a bad dream." "In the meantime, we can do this the easy way... or the hard way." "It's really up to you." "No wonder her career's in trouble." "Check it out, Tiff." "Look at the size of his feet." "You know what they say." "Fuck, she's fat." "I can't believe it." "She's not even pregnant yet." "Paparazzi scumbag." "Looks like you've got everything under control." "I'll just leave you to it." "Motherhood is so beautiful." "No." "Sorry, just messing with you." "What time is it?" "Time to get dressed." "We are going to have our own boys' night out, just you and me." "How does that sound?" " Where are we going?" " Hunting." "I can't see anything." "Maybe we should slow down?" "No!" "You're doing great." "Son of a bitch!" "Up yours, asshole!" " What?" " Not you, Son." "Come on, floor it!" "Oops!" "I did it again." "Jesus Christ!" "No!" "Attaboy!" " No, I didn't." " And I thought you weren't ready." "Kid, you're a fucking natural!" "But he hit the shelf." "And don't worry about your mother." "It will be our little secret." "Say "cheese. "" "Good morning." "Hi." "We must have really got wired last night." "Yeah." "Redman, did we..." " You don't remember?" " No." "It's all a blur." "What about you?" "I kind of remember you screaming a lot." "Yeah, I seem to remember that, too." "I tend to have that effect on women." " Really?" " Yeah." "Wait, I do remember..." "I had the strangest dream." "I dreamt my guardian angel came to me." "She had the sweetest voice I have ever heard." "She told me to respect myself." "And then she asked for my autograph." "Let's see. "Step Number One:" "Admit I have an addiction. "" "Okay, check." ""Step Number Two:" ""Give myself over to a higher power. "" "Whatever." "Here we go. "Step Number Nine:" ""The recovering addict must make amends..." ""to anyone he or she has harmed. "" " Hello?" " Good morning." " Is this Ruth Bailey?" " Speaking." " The widow of Robert Bailey?" " Yes." "Who is this?" "Mrs. Bailey, my name is Tiffany Ray." "You don't know me... but a few years ago, I killed your husband." "And I am so very, very sorry." "What is this, some kind of sick joke?" "No, I'm completely serious." "But I want you to know I'm in recovery now... and I have put all of that behind me." "I don't know who you are..." "Thank you, Mrs. Bailey." "Have a nice day." "I feel better already." "Morning, Stan." "Wasn't there something important you wanted to tell me?" "Well" "The thing is, Jennifer..." "I'm sorry." "I don't know what's gotten into me." "So you were saying..." " Forget it." " Okay." "Now, let's see." "What should we do today?" "I'm pregnant." "Redman, I said I'm pregnant." "Congratulations." "Who is the baby's daddy?" "Don't even look at me." "I haven't slept with anyone else to advance my career lately." " Who are you kidding?" " It's true, Redman." "Look..." "I know I come off all slutty, but that's for my image." "It's just..." "Do you think anyone would cast me in these sexpot roles... if they knew I hadn't been laid in a year?" "I haven't even slept with my driver yet... and I think he really likes me." "That's all very touching and shit." "But I'm telling you, it can't be me." "Why not?" "I had a vasectomy as soon as I got to Hollywood." "I ain't no idiot." "That is impossible" "Hey Jennifer!" "I hate to break it to you." "But I can't hire you if you're pregnant." "That is ridiculous." "The character is pregnant." "Yeah, I know... but I have a very specific vision of Mary." "And what can I say?" "She gots to be hot." "That pig!" " Recovery Hotline." " Yes, I'm in recovery." "And I'm afraid I'm going to have a slip." " Can you get to a meeting?" " No, it's really not an option." "I just freak everybody out." "Don't be so hard on yourself." "We're not here to judge you." " What's your name?" " Tiffany." "Listen to me, Tiffany." "I know exactly what you are going through." " You do?" " Yes, I do." "In fact, I'm gonna let you in on a little secret." "Justlastweek,Ihada slip." " Really?" " Yes." "And believe you me, it was not pretty." "It never is, is it?" "In fact, it took me three hours just to clean up the mess." "God, don't remind me." "But I'm not beating myself up over it." " You know why, Tiffany?" " Why?" "Because Rome wasn't built in a day." "You're right." "You are absolutely right." "Hello?" "Speaking." "When was this?" "All right, I know." "I understand who you are." "I just don't know how you got my phone number." "Because it is a private, unlisted phone number." "Pete Peters?" "Yeah, I saw him yesterday." "No, I don't have any relationship with him." "He is a firking paparazzi that is trying to get pictures of me... in compromising positions." "Yeah, I'm with Redman." "Redman, he's a director." "Oh, yeah." "Well, he's a rapper, too." "He is a rapper-director, okay?" "He's a hyphenate." "Bye-bye." "Jennifer..." "Do you mind?" "I'm on the phone." "There's been another murder." "What?" "No, I told you where I was." "I was right here all night with Redman." "What?" "I don't..." "You're not telling me I'm a suspect." "All right, I'll be fine." "I'm on my way." "I'm leaving." "You can let yourself out." "By the way, Redman, drop dead." "Oh, Glenda." "Glenda, honey." "Everything is okay." "It was just a little slip." "There's no need to tell your daddy." "It will be our little secret, okay?" "It's D-day here at San Quentin." "Who would have thought it would ever come to this?" "They're executing Martha Stewart this morning." "I don't think I can take nine months of this shit." "Silly Chucky." "It is a voodoo pregnancy." " It's accelerated." " How accelerated?" "It is 102. 7, KIISFM, LA's number one hit music station." "Ryan Seacrest in the morning." "Ellen K, I don't know if I can take it." "What's on the way?" "We have bad weather on the way in LA, Hollywood, and surrounding area." " Now, we're not used to bad weather." " No, we're not." "I'm not quite sure how that's going to affect my whole vibe." " This is Joan." " Joan." "I'm fat." " You're not fat." " No, I am fat." "I'm huge!" "For the love of Mary, I'm pregnant." " My God." " No, I should have listened to you." "You said it was evil and I was going to hell." "You're right, and now God is punishing me." " Oh, God." "Is it Redman's?" " No, it's definitely not Redman's." " What?" " What?" "It's definitely not Redman's." "What an asshole." "What makes you say that?" " Say what?" " That Redman is an asshole." "I didn't say it, you did." " No, I didn't." " So he's not an asshole?" "Yes, he is." "Joan, will you please stop doing that?" "Doing what?" "Lmitating me." "I do not sound like that." "Yes, you do." "I do." "Joan, will you shut up?" "There's something really wrong with me!" "I'm pregnant." "I don't..." "Jennifer, what's wrong?" "Nothing, I'm fine." "I heard you scream." "I can still hear you screaming!" "I mean, it's just..." "Well, Bound is on cable." "Gina Gershon is fingering me." "I love this movie." "Don't you?" "Yeah, that's really interesting, but I've got to go." "Bye." " Too tight?" " Yes." "Ain't no such thing." "What are you doing?" "Stop it." "What the hell is going on in here?" "She came on to me." " Help me!" "Somebody help me!" " Shut her up, asshole." "What the hell is this?" "We had an agreement, Chucky." "We decided, for the sake of our child... we weren't going to do this shit anymore!" "No, you decided." "Just like you decided our son was a girl." " He is a girl!" " He is a boy, God damn it!" "And he is the most promising killer I have ever seen." "You should have been there, Tiff." "You would have been so proud of him." " I want a girl!" " I want a boy!" "You are tearing me apart!" "What about what I want?" " What?" " What?" "Doesn't what I want mean anything at all?" "Okay, interesting." "Tell us." "What do you want, Sweetface?" "I think I want to be a boy." "Yes!" "In your face, lady!" "But being a girl would be nice, too." "Well, which is it?" "I'm not sure." "Sometimes I feel like a boy." "Sometimes I feel like a girl." "Can't I be both?" " Well, some people..." " No way." "But one thing I do know for sure." "I don't want to be a killer." "Glenda." "Glen." "Whatever." "I'm so proud of you." "No matter what happens... we'll deal with it together, as a family." "Okay, Okasan." "Wait a minute." "I'm not going to let you poison our son's mind... with your touchy-feely, 12-step bullshit." "If you two don't want to kill anymore, that's your loss." "But don't look down your noses at me." "I'm not ashamed to be a killer." "I'm proud of it." "It is not an addiction." "It is a choice." "And it is not something that you should have to hide in a closet!" " Oh, dear." " Oh, God." "Well, well, well." "Looks like Miss High and Mighty... ain't so perfect after all." "It was just a little slip." "Rome wasn't built in a day, you know." "Besides, the fucker really had it coming." " Well, what about my body?" " I'll take care of it." "Jennifer, I love you." "I love you." "This is Stan." "Hello, it's Jennifer." "Stan, baby, I need your body." "I'll be right there." "Jennifer, if anything happens to me, I want you to know..." "They really do make a cute couple, don't you think?" " It's like my mother always said..." " Christ!" "Enough with your mother, already." "I killed that bitch 20 years ago and she still won't shut up." "There, there." "It won't be long now." "Who is it?" "It's that nosy bitch, Joan." "I'll take care of her." "I wouldn't want you to violate your delicate sensibilities." "Jennifer?" "Jennifer!" "Jennifer." "Oh my God" "Jennifer?" "Look out behind you!" "Joan!" "No!" "Dang!" "Look, I'm not going to give you crap." "Nobody is perfect, Tiff." "I got a few skeletons in the closet myself." "See?" "Come on, Tiff." "How long did it take to build Rome, anyway?" "Glen?" "Guess again, Daddy." "Glenda?" "That's my name." "Don't you wear it out." "Shit." "What did I miss?" "Nothing much." "I just fired Joan." "Looks like you win after all, Tiff." "Congratulations." "You both win." "I'm a real lady-killer... if you catch my drift." "I'm a bona fide bonus baby." "Jesus Christ, Chucky, what did you do to him?" "What did I do?" "At least I spent time with the kid." "Glen, wake up." "Stop it, Mommy." "You'll wrinkle my dress." "And how do you like it?" "I made it myself." "Like mother, like daughter, right?" "Like mother, like daughter." "Get it? "Mother and daughter. "" "I said, wake up!" "Right now." "Mom?" "Dad?" "What am I?" "Push, Miss Tilly." "Push." "I am pushing, you little star-fucker!" "Pay no attention to little Miss Potty Mouth." "She's hormonal." "My God." "It's coming." "I can see its little head." "What is it?" "It's a boy." " A boy." " Thank God." "Give me my baby." "I want my baby." "Chucky, we're not done here yet." " What?" " Jennifer isn't done." "We've got another one here!" "Push, Jennifer!" "Push!" "Push it out!" "Push!" "What's this one?" " It's a girl." " Groovy." "Chucky, it's time." "Ade due damballla." "Give me the power, I beg of you." "Chucky, first he has to choose." "I beg your pardon." "Sorry." "She has to choose." " We don't have time for this shit!" " Wait, Chucky." "We have a son and a daughter." "Glen and Glenda." "Don't you get it?" "Maybe they don't have to choose." "Help!" "Hurry, Chucky!" "Do the chant." " Do it now!" " Help us!" "What are you standing there for?" "Do the chant!" "What are you waiting for?" "Do it!" "Do the chant!" "Do it!" "Everybody just shut up!" "I have had it!" "That's it!" "There is a limit to how much I can take." "What are you talking about?" "Look around you, Tiff." "This is nuts." "And I have a very high tolerance for nuts." "If this is what it takes to be human... then I would rather take my chances as a supernaturally possessed doll." "It's less complicated." " You can't be serious?" " As a heart attack." "Think about it." "What is so great about being human, anyway?" "You get sick." "You get old." "You can't get it up anymore." "I'm not looking forward to that." "But I want to be Jennifer Tilly." "I want to be a star." "And I don't want to be your chauffeur." "As a doll, I'm fucking infamous." "I'm one of the most notorious slashers in history." "And I don't want to give that up." "I am Chucky, the killer doll!" "And I dig it!" "I have everything I want:" "A beautiful wife... a multi-talented kid." "This is who I am, Tiff." "This is me." "Chucky, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about." "I don't know who the fuck you are anymore." "But it's not enough for me." "I want more." " What are you saying?" " It's over." "You've got to get out of here, Sweetface." "I'm leaving you, Chucky, and I'm taking the kid." "Nobody leaves me." "Nobody!" "No!" "Jennifer." "I..." "love" "I..." "love" "Stan, tell me." "Tell me." " I love..." " What?" "Jesus." "Oh, my God." "My babies." "Give me my babies." "I just want to know where they are." "They're fine." "They're in the maternity ward." "All right, was that so hard?" "The important thing to think about now is getting well... so you can get on with your life and your career." "I don't care about my career." "I want my babies." "I'm working on it, but you're not making it easy." "I already talked to the cops." "They cleared me." "They know you're not a killer." "They didn't say you were mentally competent." "What do you expect, after the story you told them?" "It's true." "Yeah, well, I suggest from now on you keep that to yourself." "We'll talk later." "Try to get some sleep." "Wish me luck, Sweetface." "Mommy is going to be a star." "I can't think of a thing to say." "Fuck it!" "Ade due damballla." "Give me the power, I beg of you." "Leveau mercier du bois chaloitte." "Sequoise entienne mais pois de morte." "Ade du damballa..." "Switch!" "Switch!" "Switch!" "Switch!" "Switch..." "Nobody leaves me." "Nobody." "I want you to be a good girl... or boy." "Whatever." "Don't make the same mistakes your mom and dad made." "Especially your dad." "Let's go." "Glenda?" "No, Dad!" "It's me!" "Your boy!" "Your chip off the old block!" "Are you proud of me now, Daddy?" "Are you?" "Attaboy, kid." "Attaboy." "There, there." "It's all right." "It's going to be all right." "Yesterday, she gave Dana Shelton a bloody nose... and took pictures of it for Show and Tell." "She called the cat the "C" word." "And I'm pretty sure she's been taking money from my purse." "That's ridiculous." "Glen, he is an angel." "An absolute dream." "But Glenda... she's a bad girl, Miss Tilly." "A very bad girl." "I'm not listening to this." "I hate that thing." "Some of the kids really want to see her." " Miss Tilly." " What?" " I'm afraid of her." " Fulvia, it's only a doll." "I was talking about Glenda." "Just exactly what are you trying to say?" "I can't work here anymore." " What?" " I'm sorry, I just can't." "If you only saw the way she looks at me... with such hate." "All right, Fulvia, if that's what you want." "We'll miss you." "Thank you, Miss Tilly." "God bless." "Mom got her wish." "She's a bright shining star." "Now we're the perfect family." "I've learned a lot about myself." "I know I'm not alone." "I know I'm not a freak." "And even though we had our differences..." "I know my dad really loved me." "Glen, sweetheart, come over here." "Here, sweetheart, look." "Here's another one." " Who is it from, Mommy?" " I don't know." "Let's see." "It doesn't say." "Strange." "It doesn't say who it is." "Bye, sweetheart." "Don't run so fast." "You're going to trip." "So anyway, he determined that he was going to go off..." "I just love this movie." "Don't you?" "I can't think of a thing to say." "Fuck it!" "Oh, God!"