Whose idea was it to stick Roy Scheider in a priest outfit?
That was, what do you call it, accommodating the commercial needs of the genre. We needed a name, and that was the ideal cameo for a guy like Roy to come in and shoot for a relatively short period of time. He’s there for such a short time that you recognize that it sort of had to be stunt casting, and it was. It’s probably not one of our proudest moments in the series in terms of just doing what’s right for the movie. I like Roy, he’s a great guy, and he has such a huge history, but it does feel kind of phony. Most people are pretty impressed with Mr. Jason Scott Lee in the priest outfit, the banner guy of these films. Yes, he does quite well. Didn’t you place him in another of your films recently? Besides the Dracula movies, we actually cast him in the next of the Prophecy series. We just finished Prophecy 5; we shot 4 & 5 back to back. And the great thing about Jason is he would get so immersed in the culture of different places, like when we were in Romania. He would just disappear
