Next up, he had a supporting role in the high school horror movie, The Craft. Robin Tunney starred as the new girl in town who falls in with a a group of high school outcasts played by Fairuza Balk, Rachel True and Neve Campbell. The girls turn to witchcraft as a way of solving their problems and getting revenge on tormentors.
Ulrich played one of those tormentors, your typical narcissistic high school jock. Spoiler warning: he ends up paying dearly for it. I had known Robin Tunney prior to either of us working much in film, if at all.
To save money, he pocketed his per diem. Instead of getting his own place, he crashed with friends. Despite mixed reviews, The Craft was a sleeper hit at the box office. It opened in the top spot and remained in the top ten for its entire theatrical run.
Since then, The Craft has gone on to develop a cult following. Plans for a remake have been rumored for a few years now. Campbell played Sidney Prescott, a high school student whose mother had been murdered. Drew Barrymore the only actual movie star in the cast , had a heavily promoted cameo as an early victim. Courtney Cox appeared as a TV reporter who takes an interest in a deputy played by her future real-life ex-husband David Arquette. Jamie Kennedy stole several scenes as the film geek who is familiar enough with horror movie tropes to know what will happen next.
In order to prepare for the role, Ulrich did some research:. It was interesting. I sort of negated any of the tongue-in-cheek humor of it in my mind. So when I finally saw it, I was blown away by what it was, and how terrifying it was, but also how funny it was. Even Freddy and Jason were between gigs. Writer Kevin Williamson set out to revive the genre with a self-aware script that balanced scares with laughter.
There was a point early on where Miramax pulled the plug on it, and it took Wes cutting together that opening with Drew [Barrymore] and sending it to Bob and Harvey [Weinstein] to get them to let us keep going. So that movie was so close to not even happening, and we were in Napa Valley feeling like some independent film. We shot, I think, five weeks of nights to start. It was so much fun and yet so dark at the same time, both literally and figuratively.
Scream received mostly positive reviews. Ultimately, it was a hit at the box office. Harvey Weinstein insisted on releasing Scream during the Christmas movie season. That would put Scream on a path to failure. Instead, it became a word-of-mouth hit. That meant that if he was going to capitalize on the success of Scream , he was going to have to do so without the benefit of a franchise.
Ulrich opened with a supporting role in the crime drama, Albino Alligator. Matt Dillon and Gary Sinise played brothers who participate in a hold-up gone wrong. When a police officer is killed, they retreat to a bar where they take hostages. Faye Dunaway and Viggo Mortensen costarred.
Albino Alligator received a limited release in just a dozen theaters and was greeted by mixed reviews. Ulrich played a miracle worker who heals the sick and suffers from stigmata. Christopher Walken played an ex-evangelist who encourages a character played by Bridget Fonda to get close to Ulrich and push him into the spotlight.
Touch was the movie Ulrich filmed right before he made Scream. Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt both won Oscars for playing a mismatched couple. Nicholson starred as a misanthropic author who suffers from obsessive—compulsive disorder. Hunt portrayed a single mom who works as a waitress at a restaurant Nicholson frequents.
The supporting cast included Greg Kinnear as a gay painter who lives in the same building as Nicholson. The part was originally larger, but according to Ulrich a lot of his scenes ended up on the cutting room floor:. And [James L. I had to fly out to do looping, and Jim met me in the parking lot and told me what happened, and I was crestfallen. As Good As It Gets was a critical and commercial hit. But since he was barely in the final cut, all he got out of the movie was the painting which he says he gave to his mom.
McConaughey played the elder son of a farmer who convinces his brothers to give up the family business and start robbing banks. But the cast got along very well and had quite a bit of fun making the movie. It was while filming The Newton Boys that Matthew McConaughey was arrested for dancing naked and playing the bongo drums.
Although I personally enjoyed it quite a bit, The Newton Boys received mixed reviews and under performed at the box office. It barely cracked the top ten when it opened with a 9th place debut behind U. Marshals which had been in theaters for four weeks. In , he made an attempt at a leading man part. One of the reasons Ulrich took the part was the opportunity to hang out with his costar:. Cuba [Gooding Jr. So that experience was a blast. I could not wait to leave set every day, my stomach hurt so bad from laughing all day long.
So it was a great time and, you know, there are a lot of people who really like that movie. It opened in 6th place at the box office behind the remake of The Thomas Crown Affair which had been in theaters for more than a month.
Ulrich played a man whose father was killed by Union soldiers. When the group takes refuge on the property of a sympathetic family, Ulrich becomes romantically involved with a young widow played by world-renowned poet and yodeler, Jewel.
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I just fell in love with the idea of it and the notion of it, and then the cast was extraordinary. SU: It really is. I love Craig Robinson. And Linda [Cardellini] is obviously exceptionally talented. And then Ursula [Parker] was just amazing. The next generation of bubbly Save time, money, and ultimately help save the planet by forgoing your La Croix.
But to that movie specifically, in terms of the plot, yeah. And I love doing it. I did a lot of it onstage in New York and stuff. The fun of comedies is that you treat them as seriously as you do a drama. That sort of a tack is interesting. Lochlyn Munro was in it, and Natasha Henstridge, but Rik and Leslie were the reasons to do it, just to get to work with those guys.
But it was a good time. A lot of fun. But, yeah, he had it with him everywhere he went. And he used it prolifically. AVC: Yes, it was. SU: He would do it in the elevator. We were primarily on Blackcomb Mountain outside of Vancouver, at Whistler, so unfortunately the wind tended to dissipate the comedy of it outdoors. But anytime you were inside, it was gonna happen, and the few indoor scenes we had… Yeah, it was definitely going to make an entrance into the scene.
SU: Well, I was an extra, but I was really just working for beer money. I was a marine biology student at the time.
But that was the thing that sort of turned my head toward storytelling, watching how it unfolded and seeing the collaboration. It just became very interesting to me, and that kind of changed my whole mindset about life and career and… thank god.
But yeah, I started out doing it for beer money when I was at UNC Wilmington, and then it wound up being a whole lot more. Then I started consuming films and it just took over everything I thought about all day long.
So I started building sets for the theater department for UNCW, and that led to watching plays and then getting lost in that whole world. And it was just a blessing, the timing of it all, to be entering when it was pre-Giuliani New York, which was a very different New York than it is now.
Primarily because fledgling artists could afford to live in Manhattan. I had a neighbor who was a professional opera singer, who I listened to every day as she practiced her scales. And I never looked back. I worked so hard. I went up with a typical Southern accent and post-traumatic stress from an open-heart surgery that gave me this hunched-over, caved-in-chest look.
SU: What a great film. October Films was our original distributor, and he had just won for Sense And Sensibility. And they became so terrified. I mean, the film is multi-themed, but the whole notion that there was a black Confederate soldier scared the shit out of them, so they let it out for four days and then shelved it.
We were at the Toronto Film Festival with it, opened the festival with it to massive success, as all of his films are received. But it just never hit the theaters, really. AVC: When I mentioned on social media that I was going to be talking to you, several readers requested that we ask you about it. SU: Oh, really? I bought acres there when I was I was fortunate enough to be offer-only on films, so I moved there. My bedroom was his operating room. So I was deep into my Civil War education and just learning, learning, learning, and then I had a chance to meet with Ang and [screenwriter] James Schamus and talk about the film and the script and the Civil War in general.
And Miracles was my first stint in TV. But when I read that pilot script, I was just blown away and had to be a part of it, so I moved everybody to L. What a talent. SU: Well, the frustrating part is that it did take off. It did really well. We were the show that aired after the Super Bowl, and we had over 10 million viewers.
And then Bush started bombing Iraq, and we were pre-empted for war coverage. But it did take off. It had a massive following and was doing well, and the stories were good.
It was just the timing of everything at that moment killed it.
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