“Blair Witch Project’s” Michael C. Williams
Blair Witch Project actor Michael C. Williams talks about shooting the film, what it was like to go from furniture mover to movie star to furniture mover in less than two years and the never before told story of the mysterious hat. (FULL TRANSCRIPT OF…
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11/02/2011
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Blair Witch Project actor Michael C. Williams talks about shooting the film, what it was like to go from furniture mover to movie star to furniture mover in less than two years and the never before told story of the mysterious hat. (FULL TRANSCRIPT OF THE SHOW BELOW) We go from the biggest independent film to the “worst.” Then writer/director Glenn Berggoetz who’s latest film called “Worst Movie Ever” took in a whopping $11. He’s an indie filmmaker who mastered the art of shooting an entire film for under $2,000. Watch the trailer for his tribute to terrible films everywhere. You probably remember Moviefone named the Blair Witch Project Project the number one viral movie campaign. In fact that movie launched a thousand web sites. One of the stars of the movies with us Michael Williams It's not just an actor but one of the guys who played the sound guy that kicked them out. One of my closest friends from school. Mike Williams thank you for being here. I'm not sure what this guy is talking about I've never heard. How are you. Absolute pleasure to be here. Yes this is to the good friend of mine one of my best friends from our Super Bowl days. Yes. I remember them. I mean it's a remarkable story because this movie was not supposed to do any business at all right. No it wasn't it was actually rated by my family as the biggest waste of time I could have possibly done. When I showed them 20 minutes of footage at Thanksgiving 1997 when I've been working on a live setting out talking about the like oh great we have that big near us know that a curtain and sisters and my girlfriend who's now my wife and we all sit down watching this 20 minutes of this weird footage and they're just like. All right. Is it time for pumpkin pie. Yes. How did this hadn't been put together at all and strung together it made no sense to them and they didn't know what they were watching it. You know they were right it was pretty much it looked like this lousy footage of a bunch of people yelling each other in the woods. So even at that point I thought yeah you're not getting it you're not Can't wait to put this thing together. Everything will be what ever when we're shooting it I thought it's pretty cool. Do some pretty different here. You know he's obviously we real or something you just have to show friends. I thought it would be at best. In fact I thought it had a good chance of being some underground cult. You know VHS tape that would go around you know from teenager to teenager or a college kid to college kid. And we get some you know some cool underground success you know not not on like the band at the time underground you know that kind of scene but that's about it. That be the best case scenario. We got remember we got into Sundance thinking this today like this is the pinnacle of success. So I'm going to see we're not going to get distribution or anything. Little bit I didn't really know what that word at the time but I certainly didn't think it was getting any further than a film festival. You know I was excited to get it to Sunday. I find out about it. Well there was there was an open casting call in Backstage magazine in New York where I was living in Astoria Queens at the time. I'd been there for actually only a few months just moved in from Westchester after graduating Newport and working for a year st...
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