The O.C. star Amanda Righetti, and Jason Voorhees have a good laugh. Read on!
The story you’re about to read is true. The italicized text – and some "facts" – is entirely made up in the interest of comedy.
Jason, Darth Vader, Joker… Dick Cheney – these are villains that have stuck with film audiences. Since the 80s, Jason Voorhees has had a colorful history of dismemberment and nation-beloved havoc, most notably, the historic day when Jason terror-chased Joan Benoit Samuelson, helping her win the gold medal in the ‘84 Summer Olympics.
A crucial part of Jason’s rich history, is all the stuntmen who’ve played him over the years: from stuntmen – and briefly Paul Rubens (a huge miscast) – to other stuntmen.
Derek Mears, who, in leu of money, worked for on-set female nudity, is the next actor to wear the famous hockey mask and Banana Republic cargo pants. So what was it like working with this particular Jason?
Co-star Amanda Righetti explains:
"Derek was funny," Righetti said at the 09 New York Comic-con. "We would get giggle attacks right before we’d start rolling; we’d actually have to innoculate our silliness with a Sadness Puffer. It was the worst because I was like, ‘dude, I’m supposed to be afraid of you, Stop making me laugh – and stop using that French Tickler hidden within your famous Machete.’ Anyway, we’d laugh until our prop-blood came out of our noses."
We had a really good time. We’d really get the giggles – squealing high and girlish laughs, and then getting really silly, making forts and embattling in Nerf gun fights; one take, Derek even peed his pants with prop-blood."
Righetti describes Derek as a gentile giant – always asking about the rabbits.
"He’s really a nice guy. So at times I would be like ‘you’re not supposed to be nice to me, I’m supposed to be afraid of you,’ and he’s like ‘are you okay, are you okay? I’m not hurting you, am I?’ And I’d go, ‘stay in character and literarily chisel off my head with an ice pick.’ But he’d just continue acting silly, wreaking the next take, monstrously singing ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry’ with is gore-ridden Guitar o-Knife. But he was so available as an actor, in that he was just physically there, leering at me through his mask, pretending to tongue-kiss me – I assume. But he was also very considerate (in that, he never once killed me) and I really appreciate that.
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