Jamie Kennedy Talks 'The Mask 2' Role


Jamie KennedyJamie Kennedy says that his new movie The Mask 2 has more special-effects work than any of his previous films. "It was way more than anything I've been involved in," Kennedy told Sci-Fi Wire. "There are so many different effects you have no idea what you're doing or what you're running from. You have to hit so many different marks and make sure that you react to the [nonexistent] thing that you have to trust that it will work."

The sequel follows Tim Avery (Kennedy) who's feeling reluctant to become a father when he finds that he has to take care of a baby with amazing abilities... somehow, the baby has the powers of the Mask of Loki, a mythological object that transforms its user into a manic shapeshifter alter-ego. As bad as a baby with godlike powers might seem, the really bad news is that Loki wants his mask back.

"Sometimes they had the real baby, and they would just tweak his face a little bit with CGI, and then there are other times when they just created a totally fake baby," he said. "Literally on my first day, I was doing a scene with the real baby, and then in the middle of the scene, they would take the baby out of the scene, and they would say, 'We can't finish this scene today.'"

Kennedy says it was hard working with the CGI. "It was hard in the sense that there was no continuity," he said. "You might shoot a scene on Monday and then not be able to finish it until Thursday. So Tuesday and Wednesday you will be shooting something else. You would shoot many different scenes at once and get little pieces of them at a time, because they were so effects-based." The Mask 2 is currently scheduled for a February 18th release.

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