'Novocaine' Stars Jack Quaid and Amber Midthunder On Being Rising Action Icons

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00:00Hey Beth, I'm Dread Central. How are the two of you?

00:02Hi! How are you?

00:04Congratulations on Novocaine!

00:06What a bloody blast!

00:08Thank you!

00:09I had so much fun.

00:11But of course my first question, as a tattooed girly,

00:13I have to know, Jack, how big of a pain in the ass

00:15was putting on the full body tattoo vibe?

00:19Because I loved it, but I also know that that's a nightmare.

00:22It's a nightmare. Well, look, you're there for a while.

00:26It's my entire upper body.

00:28So I'm shirtless and it's quite cold

00:31because it's just spring water and all these different things.

00:33Yeah, like four o'clock in the morning.

00:35Yeah, getting there very early.

00:36Hours.

00:37But I have to say, seeing it in the movie,

00:39it really looks great.

00:40And I love the, I think it was like a local South African,

00:44because we shot the movie in South Africa,

00:45it was a local South African artist who was responsible

00:47for all the different designs.

00:50And I really love the way that it ultimately looks

00:53because we had kind of a temp version of it

00:55that made me slightly more, I don't know,

00:58kind of like emo looking.

00:59Like I kind of felt like the crow a little bit.

01:02And I know that's not.

01:03Very crow, very Eric.

01:04You don't think me when you think of the crow.

01:08But no, I really am happy with how it all turned out.

01:12I actually, I had to learn how to use a tattoo gun

01:14and they gave me these sheets of like fake skin

01:17to take home with me.

01:18Oh, you got to tattoo the fake skin.

01:20Exactly, and there's like a little,

01:21the grossest part is there's a little belly button

01:24on all the little sheets of skin.

01:26I forgot about that.

01:27So I'm just home, I'm just in my apartment,

01:28you know, the apartment they had for me in South Africa,

01:31just like with sheets, just like if anyone came in,

01:33they would think I was a mass murderer.

01:35It was just insane.

01:37But I'm like drawing smiley faces and, you know.

01:39He would show us photos and I'd be like,

01:40cool, that's disgusting.

01:42That's so gross.

01:43He's losing it in his apartment,

01:45he's losing it during the shoot.

01:47But Amber, it's so cool to see you go

01:49from being a badass in Prey to a badass in Novocaine.

01:53And I was curious what the difference,

01:55was there any difference in preparing?

01:57I know they're very different movies,

01:58but action-wise, so different.

02:00What was it like preparing for this one

02:01versus being in a film like Prey?

02:03Worlds apart, they are worlds apart for me,

02:05which I think was what was so exciting about it.

02:07You know, it was so fun to be able to,

02:09I've never played, a lot of my characters

02:10have always been like, they've been housed

02:13in these big circumstances of genre and time periods

02:18and all this kind of stuff,

02:19that this was the first character I've really played

02:21who's just very grounded and very within the world

02:24and just kind of a girl.

02:26And I think what made me like her so much

02:29is that she's afforded the layers of being complicated

02:32and being a little bit edgy and quirky

02:34and still being the girl you fall in love with at a bank.

02:40Sorry, you said that like that was a type.

02:42There's a girl next door

02:43and then there's a girl you fall in love with at a bank.

02:44We all wanna be the girl you fall in love with at a bank.

02:46At a bank, of course, definitely.

02:48Dan and Bobby called it the slow motion dream girl.

02:50It's just like, who doesn't wanna do that?

02:52Be the girl at the bank that you fall in love with.

02:55So, yeah, it was just, did that answer your question?

02:59Oh, absolutely.

03:00No, but it's so cool to see you

03:01just play a cool, confident girl.

03:03Yeah.

03:04It was just very different.

03:05It was actually a very interesting challenge

03:07to be able to trust not having as much

03:11crazy stuff to rest on.

03:13In a weird way, it felt very exposing,

03:15but that was what was so fun

03:17about the challenge of this character.

03:19That's amazing.

03:20Well, I have to wrap, but congratulations to the two of you.

03:22You are action stars now in my heart and soul,

03:24so congratulations on the cane.

03:27Have a good rest of your day.

03:30Everyone wants to be the girl you fall in love with at a bank.

03:32It's just so many words, but it's a term.

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