![]() Everyone feels a little bit like a martyr. I don’t think that any bad character – if you want to term a character bad – is really a bad character because every person in life can justify their actions. Early on in my career my acting teachers would always say, “If you were this character in this situation, what would you do?” So, every character is you – even the characters who aren’t nice or very likable. How much of you is in these characters you play? I would imagine as you get older and develop more life experience, it lends a certain amount of nuance to your roles, right? RELATED: King Knight Trailer Starring Matthew Gray Gubler and Angela Sarafyan I don’t have some sort of arc to play or have anything to provide the production, it’s not necessary for me to be in a movie, but if I feel like I have something to offer and it has some emotional relevance that’s what attracts me. I appreciate that and hope that continues. I’ve been able to play more characters with more agency. I’m playing more take charge women and I think the landscape has changed across the board for women in films, especially in horror films where we see more emerging writers and cinematographers and directors who are women. I feel like my characters as I’ve gotten older have gotten more interesting because I’m not, as Jeffrey Combs referred to me in Re-Animator, a bubble-headed coed, although I don’t think I played the part like that.Ī lot of times in my early career I was a young damsel in distress and I’m not playing that anymore. You know, sort of unforgiving mothers like I play in Alone with You, or complicated caretakers or people that are running things and taking charge. ![]() As I’ve gotten older, I’ve been able to play more complicated characters. I always wanted to play a classic character, so I was able to scratch that off my bucket list. I don’t think I’ve played everything, yet. At this stage in your career, what do you look for in a script or project?īarbara Crampton: I think I like to play characters that I haven’t played before. Jeff Ames: You’ve had an extraordinarily successful career. Meanwhile, King Knight is out February 17 in select theaters, on demand, and digital. ComingSoon had the amazing opportunity to speak with horror icon Barbara Crampton about her roles in the psychological thriller Alone With You, the dark comedy King Knight and the video game Back 4 Blood. Crampton appeared in classic films such as Re-Animator, Chopping Mall, and Puppet Master, among countless others.Īlone With You is out now in theaters and is coming to on demand, digital, and DVD on February 8, 2022.
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