James Jude Courtney used to live with a hitman, who gave him pointers on how to look more like he was about to kill someone
Faceless, voiceless, emotionless slasher Michael Myers has been played by six actors over the years, but the latest to take up the mask is probably the only one to have been given pointers on how murderers go about murdering by an actual murderer.
James Jude Courtney, who plays Myers in the new sequel to the original Halloween after a lifetime of odd parts in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Babylon Five and a later slide toward less exciting roles (Huge Goon’ in The Gray In Between; ‘Mafia Goon’ in Soccer Dog: The Movie)
While they lived together Courtney took his flatmate out to see him in The Hit List not the 2011 one with Cuba Gooding Jr, the 1993 one with a late-period James Coburn in which Courtney plays ‘Final Hit-man’.
The actor recalls this experience in a Vanity Fair interview, explaining that he took said contract killer to see “The Hit List,” a movie he was in, and recalls him saying “Jimmy, it’s a really nice movie, but that’s not how you kill people.”
This year’s Halloween takes place exactly 40 years after the events of the original film, which means that Myers is right around 60 years old in this particular timeline; and he’s spent those past 40 years locked up in an asylum. However, the second you see Courtney in the mask, it’s clear that though Michael may be older, he’s damn sure no less terrifying than before. Courtney under the mask, may be the ruthless Michael Myers up to date.
Michael Myers been around too long sometimes I’m just like is he ever going to die lol. Maybe in this movie he finally will die and it will be the last of Michael Myers even though I love watching Halloween.
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