Originally posted on Darkworlds.com.
Jonathan Freck, who stars in JEEPERS CREEPERS, its sequel JEEPERS CREEPERS 2 and the upcoming JEEPERS CREEPERS 3: CATHEDRAL, recently sat down for an interview with DARKWORLDS.COM. Fortunately Freck proved to be far more personable than his onscreen alter-ego the Creeper, the flying monster that comes out of hibernation every 23 years to feed upon humans.
Asked if the heavy prosthetic makeup he wears for the film is uncomfortable, Freck was good-natured but blunt: “It can be pretty tough, yeah. I usually spend about four hours in the makeup chair, but it can be more like seven sometimes. We were shooting nights, so usually I’d get in there at 3 or 4 in the afternoon and then I’d be in the makeup for 8-10 hours at a stretch, we’d work all night and then finish around 6 or 7 a.m.”
Asked if the film’s nocturnal schedule complicated the rest of his life, Freck once again pulled no punches.
“Oh, it was awful. We were filming for like six weeks, maybe eight weeks, and I got completely turned around. The actual shooting days were one thing, but then I’d have days off and I’d just be completely out of step with the rest of the world. Thank God my girlfriend was so patient, she was really great and kinda said, ‘Ok, you just go off and do this thing, you get it done.’ She gave me a lot of freedom.”
One of the Creeper’s most frightening attributes would be the large, bat-like wings he uses to soar through the air and swoop down upon his victims. We asked Freck if he had to wear the wings as part of his costume, and if so, how cumbersome they were.
“When you see the wings in the film, that’s mostly CGI,” Freck said. “We experimented with some prosthetic wings on the set, but in the end almost all of that stuff was done by the CGI people.”
Freck was fairly confident that another sequel could be on the way.
“I think people would like to see more of this character,” Freck said. “He has a really interesting backstory, and there are a lot of possibilities: I mean, you can jump ahead 23 years, or go back 23 years, learn about his past or go into the future.”
