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- Don Mancini, who created
"Chucky" 30 years ago,

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is one of my very best friends.

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And after we did "Bride of Chucky"

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and we were doing "Seed of Chucky,"

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we would have lunch like once a month

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and we would think of great
storylines for "Seed of Chucky."

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And I said, when I heard they
were making a movie version

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of Jennifer Tilly, "Oh my gosh,

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"you have to make her the diva from hell."

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So we wrote in all these jokes
about how obnoxious she was

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and how self-involved and narcissistic,

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and we were very pleased with ourselves.

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Don turned it in,

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and the studio didn't
like it one little bit.

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They looked at the script and they said,

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"It's too gay, it's too funny,

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"and there's too much Jennifer Tilly."

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And when he told me that, I was like,

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"How can there be too
much Jennifer Tilly?"

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- Jennifer Tilly's playing me in a movie.

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It's absolutely perfect casting.

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- And they also didn't
like how I was portrayed.

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They were like, "She's so mean.

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"Like, can't she be a nice girl

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"whose friends are getting
killed all around her,

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"and she's trying to find out why?"

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And Don said, sort of contemptuously,

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"Oh, like "I Know What
You Did Last Summer?"

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And they're like, "Yes,
exactly like that."

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They wanted the reboot "Bride
of Chucky" to be exactly like

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all the other horror
films that were out there.

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And Don always likes to
do everything different,

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and that's why I think that
"Chucky" has survived 30 years.

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You never know what to expect from him.

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So "Seed of Chucky,"

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he rewrote it a little
bit to make Tiffany,

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not Tiffany, Jennifer Tilly,
nicer and more accessible.

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In fact, we actually re-shot one scene.

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There's a scene where Jennifer Tilly,

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whose career is on a steep decline

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due to taking on the "Chucky"
movie, art imitates life,

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so she's leaving the studio,

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and somebody has been
decapitated at the studio,

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and she walks outside,

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and for the first time there's
paparazzi waiting for her,

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they're like, "Jennifer, Jennifer,

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"how did you find the body?

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"Jennifer," and John
Waters was ad-libbing.

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He was a pervy paparazzi.

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He's like, "Jennifer,
what's your real age?"

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And so she was like kinda like,

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like you know like "A Star is Born,"

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like oh, people are wanting my opinion

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and they're taking pictures of me.

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So I get in the car,

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and the scene is like I call my assistant,

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"Did you see?

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"Turn on the news, I'm on the news.

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"Did you see it?"

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Like I did it like I was really excited.

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The studio made us reshoot it.

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Don said, "You're too
excited and happy about it."

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He goes, "A person has died after all."

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So we reshot it,

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and I did the same lines,
but I did them really sad.

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"Did you see it?

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"Turn on the news.

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"Did you see it, I'm on the news?"

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So Don and I have like
a wicked sense of humor,

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and I think sometimes it's too much

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for the general population,

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so we have to tamp it down a little bit.

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But lots of times I do
a lot of ad-libbing,

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and he leaves a lot of it in, my ad-libs,

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because they're funny.

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It's USA and SYFY,

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10:00 on Wednesday night.

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All the episodes are
streaming now on Peacock.

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So you can just go to Peacock Network

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and just binge watch the entire series

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from season one through season three.