House of wax

Question: What appealed to 당신 about the character of Carly?

Elisha Cuthbert: The character was most appealing at first because I was coming off of “The Girl 다음 Door,” which sort of was a great first film for me, but I wanted to do something extremely different.

And when Joel brought me “House of Wax,” I thought this is perfect because the genre is different, the idea is different, and the character is nothing like Danielle in “The Girl 다음 Door.” We kind of created Carly in the sense that she was a lot 더 많이 tomboyish, not so particularly pretty – but pretty in her own way -...

Q: Did 당신 take any of the wax props 집 with you?

I don't want to burst anyone's bubble, but actual wax doesn't look like actual wax screen I guess. So it was a 음식 preservative. So I took a lot of 음식 preservative 집 with me. It was a 음식 filler with sort of a 젤리 substance -- and if 당신 can imagine like curdled 우유 with a hair gel kind of thing. And that sort of had a good consistency that showed up on camera and was easier to maneuver than actual wax. And I guess if wax was liquid, it was going to be too hot.

So lucky me, the first thing that happened when I got there, I walk...