3/13/2024 0 Comments My buddy and chucky![]() ![]() ![]() I got a little nervous because some things in Hollywood are taboo to talk about. GARDNER: It wasn’t something that, as soon as I started the feature, I would be diving into, but when going through the interview footage I decided that was something I wanted to talk about. As the daughter of a prominent person in the film industry, how important was it for you to present the fact that when your dad leaves to be with his work family, he is missing out on your lives and that it's something that weighs heavily upon him? Your father talks about how many times he had to be on set in different states around the country and miss out on family events, and others talk about that as well. In Living with Chucky you focus on how much of a sacrifice the crew and filmmakers and actors made in their personal lives in order to make sure their professional lives are looked after. Image via Universal 1440 Entertainment / Universal Pictures Home Entertainement Hearing how fondly he talks about everything– you worry because he’s been doing this for 30-plus years, and in interviewing him, of course I’m going to be asking him some questions that he’s already been asked before, so I was a little nervous, and he still answers every question like it was brought to him brand new, which is really cool because I could see people in this business getting tired of that or resentful somehow, but (Don) really loves (Chucky) and treats it like a new thing with every iteration, which is really cool! (Chucky) has been his baby, and I think that is very rare in general, but also in horror for the same voices to be behind it. Diving into Don’s history is actually inspiring, because he started this whole endeavor pretty much around the same age that I am now, so it was really inspiring to see what could be created off of just a script and people taking chances with you, and obviously he’s fostered those relationships over the years and just kept going no matter what position he’s held on it. GARDNER: It was really cool to meet Don for the first time! We went to his house, which was also cool because I got to meet these people where they live and see what they are like. ![]() What was it like first connecting with Don? Because he is the thread that brings everyone together he hired your father to do the puppetry on The Seed of Chucky, and he has become great friends with a lot of the people he has worked with on set. He wrote the first Child’s Play film and through everything else Don has been there as either a writer or director or producer. GARDNER: Yeah, basically the latter of that, because I definitely didn’t go in with the intention of thinking of a feature down the road, but it wasn’t until I saw the films’ reception at film festivals, and Chucky fans really seemed to be gravitating towards that personal aspect, and I had so much footage on my hard drives already, I was like, "The basis for a feature is already here, and I should just see what I can do and if I could create anything with this."ĭon Mancini is a Don by name and a don by nature he is the godfather of this. Was it always the thought that you would make a feature like Living with Chucky and the short was the precursor? Or did you do the short, it turned out well, and you thought there is more you could dive into here? Your short film, The Doll House, was the start of your exploration into your father’s work and the Chucky world that he helped create, but it also explores the different family ties that this franchise has where there is not only yourself and your father, but also Fiona and Brad Dourif. So that was the first inkling of– I didn’t realize the capacity of how big this is until I was on the set of the Cult of Chucky re-shoots that were in LA, because at the time I had already done the short documentary of this film, or I was filming it, so I had gotten to know a few people already, and it was really intimate, and Don (Mancini) and Fiona (Dourif) and my dad were there, and just getting to hang out with them, I realized that I went down the right path, because this is definitely a family, on and off-screen. I grew up in a small town, and I was the only kid into horror movies and things like that, so my dad and I went to a horror convention together when I was in high school and people were asking him for his autograph, and I was like, “Oh! The horror community is this vast community of people who are super dedicated." I love my dad, and I think his job is the coolest and his work is the coolest, but you don’t really realize the impact it has on other people. KYRA ELISE GARDNER: I probably started to notice that later on in high school. ![]()
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