So, if you realize that all those things didn't really have any sort of bearing other than probably the fact that I was not 300 pounds or anything like that. It had nothing to do with how tall I was, how thin I was, how I walked, what I looked like, if I could act or anything. I'll give you $25 dollars a day and you'll have to be here anyhow then.' And, I said 'Hey, that's a good idea.' John was an old friend from college and I knew he was shooting near my house and I went down to where they were shooting the picture and talked to him about hanging out around the set while he was in this area. And he said, 'Well, if you're going to do that, do you want to be the guy in the mask. NICK: There was nothing premeditated about this or normal. How did John initially pitch the character and convince you to play him? ROHAN: Michael Myers is essentially the living embodiment of evil. Whereas, John (Carpenter), I'm an old friend of and we've continued to talk with each other from time to time and are still close. But, I've seen her from time to time on-sets and at various parties and things like that. ![]() ![]() I actually went on the plane back with her, so we talked a lot about the interim intervening years. And we hung out there and had a lot of fun. She went to one of these - and only one - to raise some money for her favorite charity. NICK: I saw her about three years, maybe two years, before at a horror convention. ROHAN: Had you stayed in touch with Jamie over the years or was this the first time catching up in quite a while? NICK: Yeah, it's the scene where Laurie first sees The Shape up in the window, in the reflection of the mirror. ROHAN: You make a cameo in the movie, in a scene with Jamie Lee Curtis. It felt like I was in the flow of things and just apart of the show. Being a part of this franchise is now part of me, I suppose, in one way or another, so it became a little like that. Putting the mask on was - it wasn’t as if I hadn’t had any relationship with the character over the last forty years because over the last six years or so, I've been going to some of these horror conventions and meeting fans, signing autographs, and things like that. I was there for about a week, had a lot of fun and met a lot of great people. They flew me to South Carolina to put on a mask for a day. ![]() It was like someone sending me on a free vacation.
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