Monsters & Critics had an opportunity to put some questions to Sir Ben Kingsley on his role in the upcoming "BloodRayne" movie currently shooting in Romania under the hand of Director Uwe Boll. Based on Majesco's popular videogame, the film follows an eighteenth century young half-vampire (T3's Kristanna Loken) out to avenge her mother's rape and murder by her father - Kagan (Kingsley), the King of Vampires. About his character, Kingsley says "My role in BloodRayne is king of the vampires which obviously is very attractive to the imagination. I don't really know what I want to achieve in the role- I don't think achievement is the right word. I want to present to the audience a king fighting a rebellion led by his daughter which is I think very rich because nobody knows what it is like to be a vampire so you have to use your intuition and where I can use my intuition is to use a wonderful leading lady in her role as daughter and have her my equal in opposite and that is where the drama of the overall story lies that it is a daughter determined to destroy her father and a father that is determined to destroy his daughter or to re-embrace his daughter and bring her to his side... I think a good horror film can also include sexuality and passion and tensions and sensitivity and I think if a horror film embraces all this mediums then it can be a very sensually exciting event for the audience so that they are attracted and horrified at the same time. They're compelled towards this very positive force and at the same time they are frightened of it" For the full interview, click here.
Thanks to 'James'.
