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Shoot
it Up....
The Shoot is always the most intense period of activity, and shooting in the
Winter in England with little daylight for exteriors and cold weather added to
the challenge.
It was a hard shoot -
very physical, very cold and with special effects work that would leave a lot
of people sticky with 'Pro-Blood.' People often ask Eileen Daly, who plays the
lead Lilith Silver, whether she actually drinks blood, we're not sure what she
gets up to on her own, but on the set she was addicted to the stuff! Jake remarks, "She
was phenomenal, I don't think there are many actresses out there who could have
pulled this off - the mixture of hard physical action scenes that range from
gunplay to samurai sword fights, intermingled with erotic seduction scenes, serious
scenes and off the wall humour, required immense dedication and range - especially
when your shooting completely out of sequence in adverse conditions."
Eileen
remembers: "I
was working so hard doing kick-boxing, shooting and running around that I started
to sweat. And the sweat contained in the rubber cat-suit would turn cold, so
I had this icy cold sweat swishing against my body. Ughhh! I've never been so
cold in my life. In the end I had to wear thermal underwear under the costume
and everyone started calling it 'the fatsuit!' - I hope it doesn't show on the
film!" When speaking about her character, Eileen is very enthusiastic, "Lilith
isn't your usual vampire. She's sexy in a girl power way - she fights better
than any man, has a heart of steel and takes nothing from anyone. She's a warrior,
a millennium chick, a woman of the world. She makes her living a hard way, a
modern day Nikita who's had to learn to survive. She didn't originally choose
to be a Vampire, but she's certainly chosen a profession that suits her - an
assassin for hire. Lilith psychologically is half male and half female, she has
dual appeal. Men can see the female side: she's sexy, but deadly - the classic
femme fatale; whereas women will recognize that untamed female sexuality and
themselves be attracted to her as a woman who can deal with any situation. To
put it in a nutshell - Lilith Silver Rocks!"
The film was shot entirely on location
around London, Kent and Buckinghamshire, and the production worked in spectacular
locations from bustling night-time London; a theme restaurant/club "Transylvania;" a
couple of mansions and their grounds; some weird and spectacular rock formations
and even in forest terrain.
We
covered a hell of a lot of mileage for a shoot that only lasted 23 days! We had
our transport van totaled by a hit and run driver one night....there was this
huge bang and we looked out the window to see our van smashed to shit with another
car rammed up the back of it, then the guy driving (sic) the crashed car gets
out and legs it! Then, while shooting a section at my parents house who were
in the middle of selling the property - so they're like showing people around
'here's the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom....er ah lesbian Vampire seduction scene...er
um well my son is making this er film!
But whatever the hassles, it was worth it. Audiences will see a side of England
they rarely see on celluloid. Plus I'm fed up with the British looking like the
most socially repressed nation in the world - it's time we regained a sense of
cool sophistication - look at the impact the original Bond movies had in the
60's - the U.K. was the style capital of the world. Hopefully, that could one
day be the same again. So, if you like Vampires, fetish gear, outrageous set
pieces, sex, shoot-outs and blood sucking, here's a film that doesn't hold back.
By the end of the shoot, the crew
looked like the undead, "with an average
of 5 hours sleep for over 3 weeks you get very cranky, manky and extremely smelly.
We're lucky that everyone got on, we really hit it off. This style of filmmaking
- really got people into a good groove. We were flying through setups and the
actors remained focused without having to shoot multiple takes.
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