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So few people really had a forward vision.
And he saw that coming and baked it into the movie.
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I just think [Joel] swung for the fences, and he connected, you know?
It’s notThe Godfather, but in terms of how it works, it’s very satisfying.
COREY FELDMAN:The story is rooted in family.
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So it’s a family film.
And I think that is something that really hits home and makes it feel naturalistic.
It’s not just a science-fiction movie, it’s not just a vampire movie.
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It’s got that true, virtuous piece of it.
Jason Patric didn’t want to just do a vampire movie.
He’s a serious actor, a serious guy.
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He didn’t want to make it just your run-of-the-mill vampire movie.
I don’t think it required, you know, sitting around a table read discussing it.
I started going to discos at, like, 13, 14, years old.
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I’ve been around the nightlife in New York a really long time.
It wasn’t exactly rocket science, but it didn’t require being overt.
Everybody dressed like that.
Everyone wore balloon pants and had highlights.
I suppose I had thought about it on some level, but they mentioned it.
That’s the only thing I can really remember signaling LGBT.
WINTER:I mean, Rob Lowe was insanely popular at that time.
And he was, obviously, very close to Joel and had doneSt.
Like [Rob] needed more exposure at that time in his life.
On off-screen partying:
WINTER:Ah, man.
I’ll get in so much trouble with literally everybody else involved in the film.
I mean, look, it was the mid ’80s.
It was really fun.
We were on bikes all the time.
We were treated like rock stars.
It was just a really fun time and everybody got really crazy, and it wasn’t sustainable.
Really terrible things happened and everything went from coke to heroine, and that was not a good thing.
The party overstayed its welcome, basically.
FELDMAN:Honestly, it was more [the older kids] that were having the crazy times.
We were just trying to hold it together and do our jobs.
And I think Haim was dating a girl.
Jamison was dating a girl.
We all had our first girlfriends that were at home.
NEWLANDER:Yeah, some of it was naturally there.
We were cast because we had good chemistry.
But Joel gave us a lot of time together to hang out.
We shot a lot of our comic bookstore stuff on the weekends.
FELDMAN:With Haim and I, it was an instant attraction.
We instantly felt a kinship, which was interesting because we were poised to be nemeses.
So he was kind of stealing my territory, the way I saw it.
The teen magazines, the name…I was like, Come on, who’s this guy?
He goes, “Yeah, we’ve got the two Coreys in it.”
I’m like, “The ‘two Coreys’?
I’m just one guy.
What do you mean?
Are you seeing double here?”
And he was like, “Hey, how you doing man?
What’s going on?
We’re going to be working together, and let’s get together.
Let’s maybe go to the beach or hang out.
Let’s do something, man.”
So it wasn’t like the studio or the director set this up.
This was Corey on his own he reached out to me and left me a personal message.
And at the end of it, we got together and we instantly clicked.
From that moment on, we’re pretty much inseparable.
I think it came from practicality, to be able to get prosthetics on and off very quickly.
That’s what helped sort of root us in the zeitgeist of sexy rock-and-roll vampires.
They don’t turn into every other monster vampire you’ve ever seen in every other movie.
I felt kind of feral, you know?
There were subtle things.
FELDMAN:And the music!
The soundtrack was such a big part of it.
Having Roger Daltrey, having INXS, having all these great performers.
It was very popular.
He oils himself up.
He’s even got the collar.
FELDMAN:I did.
I was a big fan of your hair.
