Shauna Tackett Interview Growing up, were you a fan of horror movies? If so, which ones were your favourites? I got into horror in my early teenage years. My favourite has always been The Texas Chainsaw Massacre... the original. I always loved the Halloween movies growing up. Child’s Play was the first horror movie I ever saw. When did you know you wanted to be an actress (i.e., work in the industry)? I’ve always been into acting, and wanted to act since I was about 12, back when I’d do school plays. At about age 15 or so I started writing screenplays. I wanted to be in and make my own films so bad. Besides acting, do you see yourself branching out into any other field behind the camera? I’m directing my own movie right now, as well as doing most of the camera work for it. And I write my own scripts, also do some editing. Basically I do everything when it comes to making my own movies, that’s the only way to get it done! I learned the hard way, if you want to get something done, you HAVE to do it yourself. People say they will do things for you (such as editing), but when you wait around for months and months, and it doesn’t get done...you just have to do it yourself. What’s your favourite movie (already filmed) that you’ve been in? Why? If it had gotten finished, my favourite would have probably been my movie Perfect Skin... there were a lot of issues with that movie, and I didn’t end up getting to finish it, but I still love the script and everything that we did get to film turned out so good. My character was so creepy, and the death scenes were very gory. It had a really good twist at the end of the film as well. What’s your least favourite? What problems can you cite which led to the project becoming an un-enjoyable work experience or less-than-stellar end product? While Perfect Skin was my favourite, it’s also my least favourite, due to the fact that it had so many problems (which I won’t go into). There was just no way to finish it without starting over entirely. It was hard to get everyone together at the same time. Personal issues, and other issues... I finally just gave up when I realized there was no way to finish the movie. Then people started calling me a “fraud” because I said I was in production, and the movie never got finished. A lot of people were disappointed, and I was disappointed myself, but it wasn’t entirely my fault... so to prove I wasn’t a fraud, I began working on a new film (Bad Hare Day). I still hate the fact that Perfect Skin never got finished though, and I’m giving serious thought to just starting over and remaking it within the next year or two because I think it was my best work/best script yet. Do you see yourself continuing to work in horror films, or would you like to predominately do other genres?
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