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Interviews Posted on all 64 network sites of IBS Part
1 March 12, 2004 When it comes to playing the character, stage and screen actor Shuler Hensley knows what Frankenstein's monster is capable of: in addition to his wide range of emotions and immense physicality, the creature can sing and dance, too. That's because Hensley has actually played the character on film once before. In October 2001, he teamed with some of his Broadway colleagues for the independent feature "Frankenstein: The Musical," a production he said was inspired by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's creature feature-turned-stage extravaganza "Phantom of the Opera." And while Hensley assured me in a recent @ The Movies interview that there won't be any singing and dancing by the monster in "Van Helsing" we can expect the complexity of character featured in the musical. In addition to having the brawn, the monster is going to, of course, have some brains. This difference this time around is that he's going to use them, too. "In previous films, he's obviously been not as articulate and more of a monster, but in the book, he's basically a human being, but made of many parts," Hensley explained. "The musical dealt with that end of it, and then along came Stephen Sommers and Bob Ducsay with the same idea of him for the film. I think the Frankenstein monster is really unique in that it's much more in the style of the book in terms of his articulation and his mind. That was exciting to me.........."
Part 2 May
5, 2004 It's been a long journey from "Oklahoma!" to Transylvania, but acting buddies Shuler Hensley and Hugh Jackman have been there for each other every step of the way.........
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