What's "Roadkill" about?
I'm one of three drivers. It's two brothers and a girlfriend making a road trip across the country. I did it with Steve Zahn and Leelee Sobieski. It's directed by John Dahl. To pass the time, the black sheep brother - Steve Zahn - decides to have a CB radio installed in the car. We start prank-calling these truck drivers, and we annoy the wrong one!
Is it a typical John Dahl film?
It definitely has that John Dahl flair. I would describe it as a commercial film but with arthouse style.
You finished the film in September 1999. Why the delay?
We had to go back and do reshoots one time because they wanted to change the ending. In all, we have five variations of the ending. They did this for different reasons - the movie was testing well and the audience liked it, but they started playing around with things. The studio realised they got the cast members for a song - and they decided to temporarily shelve it on the back of the buzz of my film "The Fast and the Furious". It annoys me, but the studios want to make money.
You're a big car fan, on and off the screen, right?
Right. On "The Fast and the Furious", I worked with some of the best technical advisors in the world. I was always picking their brains, so by the end of it, I knew exactly what car I wanted. I had it fixed up and I race it now. I do drag-racing, a quarter mile in a straight line. I'm getting bored with it, so I'm gonna start doing road-course. It's a good stepping stone, though. With drag-racing, the trick is knowing when and how to shift.
