“Immediately, that gives you creative license to really recreate and explore and put a new stamp on the genre.”

There’s always your initial trepidation about doing a remake, but that was alleviated by the fact that it was a prequel.

Certainly, I look for different characters ’cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don’t like to get typecast.

I knew him as a commercial director and thought one of his commercials was great.

I thought it was an interesting take on such a big-budget cult classic

What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense.

It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.

I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

You don’t want to drain yourself. But it pumps you up, gets you in the zone.

I played a character on Oz and people still approach me in the streets today.

Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home.

Certainly, I look for different characters ’cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don’t like to get typecast.

It’s paying homage, very much, to that.

So you really, really have to stay supple.

I like the fact that there was a European, first-time director. I’d known of him because I’m from Europe.

He’s got to have a bit of an edge, but that would be nice.

Also, I’d like to play an athlete again, while I’m still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole