Jamie Kennedy Praises 'Mask 2' Director

[Monday, December 20th, 2004]
Mask 2Jamie Kennedy, star of the upcoming Son of Mask, has been praising director Lawrence Guterman. "Larry is very cool," Kennedy told Sci-Fi Wire. "He's an artist. He's a filmmaker at heart, and he knows how to make it so no shot's ever going to be boring. He just makes it look amazing, from the angles he uses to how the camera discovers what you're doing. He really likes to tell the story with pictures. He made me feel very confident."

"Visually it's important to him that the movie look and feel a certain way as much [as] it is funny and has heart," he said. "I mean, he's very good at that. There are certain scenes in the movie where Alan Cumming [Loki] is chasing me, and it's kind of ominous and dark, and Larry lighted it a certain way and shoots with certain filters. The moments with me and my wife are all bright and cheery."

Kennedy adds that Guterman tried to avoid any influences from Jim Carrey, star of the original movie. "He never thought of the Jim Carrey thing at all," Kennedy said. "He always had it in his mind that we were going to make a completely different movie. He brings to it a really good sense of humor. He's got a really twisted sense of humor, so he likes to add his own little takes, and he's the most passionate person I think I've ever worked with. I mean, we both put our heart and souls into this movie."

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