What are you up to now that you've finished your work on this season of The Walking Dead?
Well we're getting ready to start shooting with Quentin on Django Unchained. And I'm developing some material for AMC. I just wrapped editing and mixing my episode of Walking Dead for season 2. I directed an episode. And we're doing some work on a film called Seven Psychopaths that Martin McDonagh is directing, and we're also prepping the remake of Maniac that Alex Aja is producing.
Will the tone of both the McDonagh and Aja films be one of gritty realism?
Yeah, yeah.
You're now a producer on The Walking Dead, and you've won the Emmy for your makeup effects work on the show. The last time we spoke you talked about how the show is unique in that it allows you to work not only with zombie makeup but also shape the dramatic content of scenes with the cast. Can you give an example of such a situation?
Well, what's interesting is on a TV schedule generally you have eight days to prep and eight days to shoot. So lots of times when makeup effects gags would come up or zombie gags would come up, we would have to be building that or prepping it much earlier than the eight days that TV dictates that you prep it. So a lot of times what would happen is I would put forth my idea to the production and the other producers and then we would come up with a game plan, so that when the directors would come in, there were times when I'd say "Okay, here's what we got going." The well zombie is a perfect example. Because I knew that that zombie was probably going to take five weeks for us to build. So I had discussed it with the other producers – I talked to the director and said, "Listen, here's the pieces that you're gonna have and how you need to put them together. Otherwise we would have never made that shooting schedule. Because I've sort of on the show gotten to a position where now I'm more involved in the scripts and more involved in the editorial process, I get copies of the edit from each episode, and make notes on them, and make notes on the scripts, and I'm able to give my viewpoint from the genre perspective and say, "Hey, guys. What do you think of this idea?" Generally speaking I don't just go to set and do a zombie makeup and then go home and clean it up anymore. Even if we don't have gags playing, I'm constantly on set. The other actors will read the scripts and everybody will have their comments and their thoughts, and they'll come to me and go, "Hey, what did you think of this script?" and "What did you think of that scene?" I'll say, "Oh, I watched this episode last night and it's fantastic and your performance is great." So I'm much more involved now with the show than I was last year. I mean I was very involved last year, but my responsibilities have certainly elevated this season, and will continue to do so, because it's something that I love to do. I love the show, and I'm really proud of it.
Source: Full interview @ Fearnet
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