Jackie Earle Haley On What To Expect From ‘His’ Freddy…

Scifiwire recently caught up with Jackie Earle Haley and threw him some questions about what we can expect his take on Freddy Krueger to be like.

First up was Freddy’s costume…

“I know [director] Sam [Bayer] felt very strongly that we definitely needed some familiarities, like the glove, the sweater and the hat, those iconic things,”

And then the face…

“I know that they definitely took some creative license with the new look at the makeup, Sam kind of wanted to go more realistic, and him and Andrew Clement [special makeup effects designer/creator] did a great job of kind of creating a real kind of like burn victim. You know, it’s still got a hint of monster in it, but it’s more grounded than that.”

Up next was Freddy’s backstory…

“We delve into the backstory a little bit more in this one, to me it seems like this is pretty much a remake, a re-envisioning of that first film. I know that there’s other plot points and stuff from other things in there, but to me it feels mostly like that first one re-imagined, and so we did get a little bit more into, I think, the backstory, as opposed to just sitting at a, you know, at a fireplace and having Nancy, his mom, just give a monologue. We actually go back and see some of it, and it’s kind of interesting.”

And finally, anything new?

“There’s some different twists and turns in there that weren’t there from before, that, I think, will keep it interesting.”

I posted the new trailer a couple of days ago so if you missed it, do a little digging through the site…