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The film will revolve around a group of American college athletes who find themselves on a dangerous train in Europe.
BD: Tell us about your character.
TB: Alex, my character in Train, she’s a wrestler. And at the beginning of the film she doesn’t want to be one. But by the end of the film she might change her mind about that.
BD: Now this started off as a remake of Terror Train, right?
TB: I guess it started out that way in the concept stage, but the writing went along, and then shooting, it morphed into something different. I haven’t seen the original film so I’m not really equipped to comment on the differences.
BD: Your character has the same name as the Jamie Lee Curtis character.
TB: Yeah. And I think the basic premise is the same: they get trapped on the train. But this is a business, the killers are a group of people doing a job. They enjoy their work, but it’s still a job for them.
BD: IMDb says you did your own stunts?
TB: All the ones that they would let me do!
BD: What kind of stunts we talking about here; you jump off the train?
TB: A lot of fighting, chasing, running... lot of uncomfortable stuff. Getting blood splattered all over the place, going in and out of the train, crawling all over the train (laughs). Nothing I normally do!
BD: Was it an actual train or a big set?
TB: They broke it up, some was on a real train, but then a lot of it was on a set in Bulgaria.
BD: What was shooting in Bulgaria like? Had you been there before?
TB: No, I hadn’t. But I actually liked it, the capital city was Sofia, which is where we were. The crews were really dedicated, they work hard. It was good. Not a hot button place, but a good place to work.
BD: You’ve done a few horror movies lately, you did Dark Corners, now this, and then you got another one called Deadline coming up...
TB: Yeah, well Dark Corners... I guess it was. Not a traditional horror movie, but it was definitely a mind twist, dark. In that mode. This one is more traditional. Dark Corners was kind of an allegory about dreams, and evil... this one’s just straight up “someone’s trying to kill you.”
BD: Do you like horror movies?
TB: I like this one, in that the character has to go on this emotional journey. This girl has to watch her boyfriend and her best friend killed, and instead of folding up and shrieking in a corner, she makes up her mind to do something about it, and she goes after them. That aspect of the story was something I liked, and the physical activity that it required. But on the whole, it’s not something I sit down and say “What’s the next great horror movie?” and do it. I don’t plan things out that much; I look at what comes in and take it from there.
BD: Can you talk about Deadline at all?
TB: That’s a psychological thriller too. Brittany Murphy needs to write a book, she goes and stays in this house for a while to do it, and she discovers that there’s something in the house. And then she finds these tapes, and she’s watching this husband film his pregnant wife, and that’s me. I can’t really get into it any more than that!
BD: Now I have to ask about Hocus Pocus...
TB: Oh yeah!
BD: I’m from Massachusetts, and very few movies ever film there.
TB: And that’s a shame too cuz it’s a great area. I love that area. It was a blast, it was one of my favorite films to do. Because... I mean, I was ten years old, and I’m in Salem making a Halloween movie... it doesn’t get much better than that.
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