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Transcript: Aliens in the Attic-Robert Hoffman, Carter Jenkins Interview
Rebecca Murray from About.com Hollywood Movies at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards.
Carter Jenkins and Robert Hoffman - Aliens in the Attic
So you're in a summer movie together?
Robert Hoffman: "That's right."
Tell me about it.
Robert Hoffman: "It's called Aliens in the Attic. It's a really fun like family adventure comedy about a bunch of little scary aliens trying to take over the world and we have to fight them off. Ashley Tisdale's in the film too."
Okay, scary little aliens - describe these guys for me.
Carter Jenkins: "They're green. They're CGI."
Robert Hoffman: "Armed."
Carter Jenkins: "Arms as in weapons or?"
Robert Hoffman: "Uh huh. Arms."
Carter Jenkins: "They also have - a couple of them have four arms, I think. I don't know. When we shot the movie, they were not there. They are computerized."
How tough is it to work opposite something that's not there?
Carter Jenkins: "It's interesting. You have to use your imagination. It feels a little funny sometimes because you're reacting to nothing. You feel a little silly sometimes, but when they put it in and you see it put together with aliens, then it looks great."
Did they have something there in place of the aliens?
Carter Jenkins: "Yeah, a lot of times they'd have a stick if it's like moving so we'd all have the same eye line, or a piece of tape. They did have the little model aliens that they lined up the shots with for the CGI shots, but we didn't get to really react to it. They're just dolls."
So the tone of it is family so we're not going to be freaked out by these aliens?
Robert Hoffman: "No, it's all fun. It's a little bit of scary, but that's not the gig. The gig is fun and funny."
Carter Jenkins: "Kids and families will enjoy it."
Robert Hoffman: "They end up controlling my mind and I turn into this crazy zombie thing. And then they get ahold of the controller and make me do all kinds of crazy moves and stuff like that."
Did I hear you're also doing something with MTV?
Robert Hoffman: "No. I mean it's something that's trying to happen. There's nothing to be said yet."
Thanks a lot!
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see the movie!
Aliens in the Attic:
ReplyDeleteKevin Nealon was so great in Saturday Night Live and HBO’s "Weeds". Now his performance in this movie makes my choice to see this movie easy. With Andy Richter and Tim Meadows this movie has depth of seasoned actors. Then when I watched the trailer I saw the lady from “Everybody Loves Raymond”, her flips and kungfu was truly enjoyable. Then I see the kid from “Surface”, Carter Jenkins, Nim’s buddy, and my daughter loves the girl Ashley from High School Musical. I believe this movie will do very well. My kids have not stopped talking about it. We’re going. I even know the date it opens July 31st. My kids have made that quite clear. Just got back from seeing “Night at the Museum”, we saw the trailer to “Aliens in the Attic” along with about 6 other movies and it seemed like the crowd had more positive reaction to this movie than any of the others. Even my 9 year old stated the same thing after the movie in the car ride home. I think this could be a real big hit, See ya at the movies.
6/29/09 I got a call from a friend he tells me about Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen how great it was and then he startsto tell me about this movie he saw in the preview about these kids fighting off some Aliens, he got to be Forty years old, he tells me Kevin Nealon is in the movie, and he stated he is going with his girl friend. LOL,