John Jarratt was happy to "jump back" into his Wolf Creek character again.
The 62-year-old actor plays murderous bushman Mick Taylor in the 2005 horror movie, which sees him pray on a group of stranded backpackers in remote Australia. John is set to reprise the role in a sequel to the film, in which his alter ego will be more central then before, and the star was excited to get back into the action.
"Well, in the first movie, I was a little apprehensive, because I didn’t know if it was going to work or not. I knew the script was good, and once I started working, I realised I was in good hands after everyone was doing a great job. But you don’t know if a film’s going to be great until it’s out there. If I knew how to make a great film, I’d make one every day, and I’d be extremely rich," he laughed to examiner.com.
"I kind of had to [see if it would work], and it did work. My instincts were good, and so the second time around, I just jumped back into his skin and off we went. But in the first one, the monster didn’t come out of the page until halfway through the film. And that’s because it’s a set up, and it’s a whole different ball game. It’d be a waste of time to do that in the second one, because everyone knows who he is."
John puts on a terrifying performance in the original feature. Talking about his acting, he admitted he not only scares himself but other people too.
"Do I get freaked out? Sometimes, yeah. We’d see a little rough cut, and the sequence where I do the German guy, I’m thinking, 'Oh, my god, did I do that?' It’s a little bit overwhelming sometimes, because I shared Mick’s skin, and then I’m watching this thing as John Jarrett. And I think, 'Well, I must be doing a good job if I’m freaking myself out,'" he added.
"It’s strange, because the first year after [the first] Wolf Creek, women would jump behind their boyfriends and husbands, and then they kind of got over that."
