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1 OF 2: SHERRI MOON ZOMBIE GO TO PART TWO WITH ROB ZOMBIE >> You’re the first chick I’ve interviewed for SHOCK AND ROLL! Awesome. (laughs). I feel privileged. Do you consider yourself a Monster Girl? Are you as much a fan of the stuff as Rob? Well, no. I mean, Rob is a huge fan of all things ‘monster’, but he definitely opened the doors of monster culture and I dig everything he likes. Maybe not to the extreme he likes things, but I love being a part of everything, the influence that he’s had on me from the music videos to the films, it’s always so much fun. Now you met Rob doing those music videos? No, I met Rob twelve years ago through a mutual friend of ours. And then you did the videos. Now having been in those videos, when Rob wrote HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES, did he write the part of “Baby” for you? Yes. He initially wrote the part and then we talked about it, and worked on it together. I initially had no idea it would be so iconic. He did so many little projects and big projects and music projects and we like to work together, he always involves me, but that was definitely the scariest thing I undertook with Rob (laughs). Not scary because it was horror, but scary personally as a challenge, because I had never acted in film before. I just had the experience of doing the music videos. That’s not an easy role to just step into. No, no. But it was fun. A lot of hard work, but it was fun. And now you have your own action figure! I know! That’s so cool, my God! It really is cool, but you never know when you start something. You just hope you create something that people like and enjoy. I don’t step into this thinking, “Oh, I’m gonna have an action figure out of this!” I mean, those are all just bonuses. DEVILS REJECTS obviously takes a different direction than the first film. What kind of input did you have on the direction Baby would take? Rob, of course, wrote everything, but there was some aesthetic points of view where I wanted to really tone down Baby’s look, make her look more real and gritty. Get rid of all that hair from HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES (laughs), and performance wise, not be as campy. But Rob wrote the whole tone of the movie that way as well.
I think Baby is some “hip hick chick” that’s part of this crazy, murdering family. I think she has some aspirations of things higher and better, like she wants to go to Hollywood, but she’s just sort of stuck in this hick family and just goes along with it. Do you think she knows any better, really? I always got the idea that Otis and Spaulding are doing these despicable things, but as far as Baby is concerned, she never really gets the impact of what she’s doing. Almost as if she’s just trying to please her Dad. Hmmmm, I don’t think she knows any better. I think she has this fantasy of things she’s seen on TV. And I think that’s all she knows. Her family is all she knows. So that’s just her reality. But like any other person who’s stuck, maybe, in middle Am erica and has higher aspirations, they don’t know quite really how to get there, it just seems an impossible goal. So Baby is stuck working the job she’s working and loving the TV shows she’s watching, and hey, living her fantasy. Which just happens to involve murder and violence! Speaking of which, violence is such a huge part of the film, was it touch for you to perform those scenes? Yeah, it was totally difficult to do those scenes where Baby is torturing people. I don’t want to know the person who really enjoys doing that. I mean, in between each take I was always making sure the other actor was okay. There was this stabbing scene and the person wore a chest plate, but still… It’s really hard, because when you’re shooting, you’re giving your all and trying to make it look like you’re really hitting the person or stabbing the person, and… I don’t know. It’s really difficult. Yes. Well, I think it’s just an interesting choice to have someone as sweet and nice as you playing Baby, versus someone more creepy like, well, yeah, Sid Haig! Well, it’s mostly because Baby is pretty much the bait to get victims into the grasp of the family because she looked normal and angelic. “Hey, c’mon! My brother has a tow truck! Let me help you!” What was it like being directed by Rob on these films? Oh, it’s great. We love working together. He can bring out the best in, not only me, but every other person that he works with. He really treats each actor on an individual level, I think, as any director would have to, because each person is so different. Rob could joke with somebody where if he said that joke to somebody else they would fall down in tears. So, it’s great working with Rob. I love it. You guys are like the horror version of Tom Cruise and Katie Holms (laughs)! No we’re not, and don’t you dare even print that! How do you stay out of the tabloids? We don’t invite it. I feel sorry for a lot of people that are followed all the time by paparazzi. We just sort of go about our own business. No one knows who I am anyway (laughs)! That’s not true. I saw those people lines up to meet you at the Fangoria convention! That was a lot of fun. Okay. Music versus film. Are they equal passions for you? Do you enjoy one more than the other? Well, I don’t write music. I’m not in a band or anything like that, but as far as going out on Are you going on tour with Rob on OzzFest? I am, but I’m not going to be dancing this tour. It’s going to be this really stripped down with just the boys playing. Okay, some basic questions. What are some of your favorite movies or your favorite horror movies? Oh, God, that could change on a daily basis and I get that question asked all the time. And I don’t want to have a stock answer that I tell everybody… So today then. Today what are you feeling? (laughs) You know, I’m still really in love with NAPOLEAN DYNAMITE. I love that movie and I quote it all the time, and Rob and I do this radio show and we’re always sampling it. Um, horror movies… I saw HIGH TENSION, I don’t know if it’s the same version that just came out in theaters, I saw it six months ago in French, but that movie made me sick afterwards. It was really disturbing. More than DEVILS REJECTS? More than DEVILS REJECTS! |
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How would you describe Baby? 
tour with Rob and dancing, that was always so much fun, ‘cuz it’s performing. And acting is performing as well, but when you’re dancing up on stage, you get this immediate gratification, and I guess that’s why ‘rock star’ is the most coveted occupation. The coolest thing. But I love acting as well, and its so great to have such a broad spectrum of things that I can be involved with.