so as I said in a previous post I also went to a screening of The Lost Boys at the Prince Charles Cinema in central London which also had an intro and Q&A with Alex Winter! Here’s the info that I remembered from the session:
- Alex hadn’t actually watched the film since its premiere so he couldn’t remember what happened LMAO (he also said it was really fun to watch it with an audience)
- Alex and Joel Schumacher got into an argument while filming the bridge/train tracks scene because Joel wanted Marko to lure Michael without saying anything, and Alex didn’t know how to do that (quote “you know there’s only so much I can do with ass-less chaps and a mullet”)
- Marko’s death scene caused Alex to go to the hospital with a scratched cornea, as the contact lenses were really uncomfortable and dirt had got kicked into his eye while he was writhing on the floor
- the movie was originally gonna be a retelling of Peter Pan, with the characters having the same names as the original story but they got changed (Lucy was called ‘Lucy’ in honour of Dracula by Bram Stoker)
- a quote that I loved: “David was like the boys’ pimp and then Max was the Head Pimp”
- Alex said that all of them had their own little backstories for their characters, and he always had sort of thought that Marko was really old simply because his name is ‘Marko’ (quote: “I thought it was such a stupid name like, nobody in California in the 80s was called Marko! …Nobody’s been called Marko since like, the 16th century!”)
- a continuation from that point, when asked about his favourite song from the soundtrack he replied with “Echo and the Bunnymen all the way”, which then he added a bit about how he felt that Marko was originally ‘a British dude’ so therefore he likes the British bands
- he also talked about how nobody was really looking after the younger actors on set/when they weren’t shooting so he effectively became “Defacto Dad” by looking out for them
- and he has not seen the sequels (quote: “movies are weird y’know, if a movie is bad you don’t have to watch it”)
- oh also he called Michael a “bimbo himbo type of character”
