{"id":109891,"date":"2015-11-08T09:53:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T14:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=109891"},"modified":"2015-11-08T09:53:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T14:53:15","slug":"r-i-p-gunnar-hansen-aka-leatherface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=109891","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Gunnar Hansen, aka “Leatherface”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nGannar Hansen, the original villain in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre<\/i> has died at the age of 68.<\/a><\/p>\n

In his 2013 book Chain Saw Confidential: How We Made the World’s Most Notorious Horror Movie<\/a>\"\"<\/i>, Hansen wrote:<\/p>\n

The reason I want to talk about this movie is that I played Leatherface, Chain Saw’s brutish, relentless – and apparently lovable – killer. Through an improbable series of events, one sweaty summer afternoon I found myself dancing on a Texas hilltop, spinning a chainsaw over my head, hell-bent on scaring the bejesus out of the director. It had been a long trip getting to that hilltop, and it has been a long trip ever since.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s an interesting interview with Hansen from 2013<\/a>, after the publication of his book. Hansen is asked about the filming of the dinner scene (they apparently shot for 24 hours straight.)<\/p>\n

I remember it as 26 hours. Some remember it more like 36 hours. I have always been skeptical of Method acting, but by the time we were finishing those 26 hours I really became lost in the character. It wasn\u2019t because I was Method acting, it was because we were so immersed in what was going on we really lost track of the outside world. We became those characters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The outpouring of loss and respect on Twitter and elsewhere for this horror icon has been truly heartwarming.<\/p>\n

R.I.P. <\/p>\n

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