The Fanatic
When John Travolta texted him regarding his newfangled film , The Fanatic , Devon Sawa knew he would stop at nothing to get the second lead character in the Fred Durst - manoeuvre thriller . Sawa stars as Hunter Dunbar , a movie star on the edge of sanity with a wide variety of stress in his life . Meanwhile , Travolta plays Moose , a mentally unstable megafan who idolizes the Hollywood icons he sees on the big screen . Naturally , these two men determine themselves on a clangour course with one another .
Fred Durst is comfortably roll in the hay as the frontman for Limp Bizkit , but he ’s also an realised film manager , andThe Fanaticis his late and greatest work , combining black drollery , psychological scourge , and passionate empathy to make a sincerely unique work of nontextual matter .
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While promoting the pic , actor Devon Sawa spoke with Screen Rant about his workplace on the picture show and his friendship with his cobalt - star , John Travolta . He also discusses how he still gets starstruck from clip to meter , and how theatre director Fred Durst brought Rollin ' Rollin ' Rollin ' energy to the circle . The rabid hits theaters on August 30 , and turn On Digital and On Demand on September 6 , 2019
This movie is so deliciously uncomfortable . It ’s my kind of picture !
Good . That ’s it , that ’s what we we went for ! I ’m beaming you said that , because that end , the coming scene , is what we want . We should be reckon somewhere between uncomfortable and confused . So that ’s skillful !
I want to spill the beans about it without featherbed it for the Screen Rant reviewer , but was that ending part of what made you sign on toThe overzealous ? What was the process of getting this picture show in your oeuvre ?
The operation of get this movie was a very bountiful engagement on my behalf . I ’m gon na be open about that . Travolta and I work together on another picture , and Travolta had suggest me to Fred Durst for this part . Fred was n’t totally sold on me . He had n’t go steady me on anything mainstream for quite a bit of fourth dimension . I had been doing television receiver and knickknack . So I had to fight my ass off for this film . And I did it because I knew … John sent me a moving picture of what he was going to search like , and he told me a little about what he was going to do , and I had to get it . I laid every single scene from the motion-picture show down with another histrion . We did the whole affair on tape and beam it to Fred . Fred pack it for a few day , and finally I go it . It was a engagement . I have a text edition from John Travolta , saying " This is what I ’m expire to attend like in the flick , " and I was like , oh my God , that ’s crazy … That ’s when I make up one’s mind to fight for it .
You ’ve work with John before , and part of this movie is about fandom and having a disconnect from reality when it come to movie headliner . I have it away you ’ve been an actor for many years , but I ca n’t suppose anyone fulfil someone like John Travolta and not having a moment where you just have to tell him , " Oh my God , I loved you inGrease . "
Yeah . Well , it wasPulp Fictionfor me . I was 14 or something like that when it came out , and it was aliveness - changing for me . Up until that point , I was just going to define to be with other kids and have fun and giggle and have that whole matter . But when I sawPulp Fiction , I do n’t know if it was just the right timing , but see Uma Thurman , Samuel L. Jackson , Bruce Willis , and John Travolta as these larger - than - life characters in a different globe , it just changed things for me . I remember the first prison term I met John on the pic , Life on the Line , and I was very nervous . He came into that room and you just felt like a movie star walked in . I was extremely nervous for that tabular array read . That was the first day on set . John comes with the greatest fib ever . Like , he has stories of Marlon Brando . He has stories of Muhammad Ali … He ’s awful , that ’s all I can say .
Have you ever had that with any of your other co - mavin who you ’ve love and adore for years , and then you get to see them as peer ?
Yeah , Stallone was another guy I worked with , last year . If you told 12 - year - former me that I ’d be working with Stallone , I would never have consider you ! But believe me … And we did a battle scene ! I sustain there two hebdomad before , and I had a choreographed fighting scene with theJohn Wickstunt crew , and when we get to set , he did n’t care it . So he sound out , " we ’re just gon na struggle for real . We ’ll see what happens . If we do n’t wish it , we ’ll go back to the choreographed setting . But allow ’s just go in there and pull our punch . " He start out going , " rememberRocky 2 , when I did this ? " And I was like , dude , do I rememberRocky 2 ? Are we really doing this right now ?
That ’s amazing .
So amazing .
You ’re working in this movie , not just with John Travolta , but with Fred Durst , who fooling viewers might not recognize as a filmmaker , even though he ’s been doing movies for more than a decade , and I think he has a really great eye in this movie .
I ’m happy you advert that , because there were a distich of flick I did where they think this was Fred ’s first movie . But Fred has put in his due . He did a slew of music videos before he gotThe Education of Charlie Banks . That was a critical succeeder for him . Then he did more video and then the Ice Cube picture show ( The Longshots ) . He ’s put in his due . This is just another mistreat stone for him to the next big thing he does . He ’s got a slap-up energy , he knows what he wants . Like , he knew which DP he wanted . And Travolta spent the whole metre in character . He never left character . We called him Moose , and all that . He and Fred would speak , and he would be Moose , and Fred would be his sidekick . They would do a little improv before they would start a scene , and it was awe-inspiring to watch . Fred is the veridical stack , man ! And I wo n’t rest , he does contribute that Limp Bizkit flavor to the set . There is a minuscule bit of that Rollin ' Rollin ' Rollin ' sh * * going down , you make love what I stand for ? You finger that vigour , and it ’s nice !
You said Travolta was method . Do you have any ritual like that ? To be honest , five minute before this interview , I felt up queasy , kind of scared , because you may be so mean and scary in the motion-picture show ! Like , I know you ’re an actor , it ’s the line of work but when you ’re play an actor , there ’s an special layer of realism , at least to someone on the exterior looking in . How do you get into that theatrical role ?
I ’m not method . I do take moments before doing a scene , I opine of where my character has been before this , where he ’s going , the whole backstory thing . For this character , I draw on the breaking stage we ’ve seen from different actors over the years . Like , Alec Baldwin , Sean Penn , Britney Spears . The break in point with the paparazzo , they beak on them just enough where they hit them with an umbrella or contrive a punch or knock the camera out of their hands . That ’s what I drew on . Moose is my breaking full stop . All this material is going on in Hunter Dunbar ’s life : the wife , the maiden , the factor , the boy . All this poppycock is going on , and Moose is the give away power point . That ’s when I break , you roll in the hay what I mean ?
Yes , absolutely . This is a question I care to take everyone I interview . Do you have a picture or a show , anything that you ’re peculiarly proud of , from your career , that you feel did n’t get the attention it deserved at the time , that you ’d like to shout - out for the Screen Rant reader ?
Oh yeah , I mean , Idle Handswas supposed to be a mint bigger than it was . Who knows ? They ended up pulling it from a muckle of different states , especially Colorado , since it was come out the weekend after Columbine had just encounter . They cancelled the premiere , they stopped doing press , they stop play the promos on TV . We never induce to see how it would have done in real life sentence . It was kind of bury because it ’s about a kid whose paw goes on a kill fling in a eminent school . It was obviously not appropriate . But we never flummox to see what it would have done .
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The Fanatichits theatre of operations on August 30 .
