The impressed casting director insisted he do the flip every time he was called back. Grabbing himself by the collar, he performed a forward-flip, a trick he and Raimi had taught themselves back in high school.
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He got a gig by beating himself up.įor his first leading role in network television, in 1993’s The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., Campbell auditioned for a series of executives who were eager to find an actor with the physicality to ride horses and perform stunts. Campbell found himself in the role of the villain, kicked and tossed around by Hingle, as Raimi cackled. Raimi was indulging Hingle’s request for his character to confront a pimp who had sordid dealings with his onscreen daughter. When Campbell visited the set, Raimi quickly put him into costume and tossed him into a “scene” with actor Pat Hingle-but the shot was never intended to make the movie. Raimi put him in a film just to shut another actor up.īy 1993, Raimi was an A-list director, shooting the Western The Quick and the Dead with Leonardo DiCaprio, Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone, and Russell Crowe.
When more Hollywood work came in-1989's Moontrap among the opportunities-Campbell walked away from the graveyard shift. After several nights together, his co-worker recognized him from the “ Evil Death” films. Needing some steady income between acting gigs, he took a job as a security guard for an Anheuser-Busch plant in the San Fernando Valley and worked from midnight to 8 a.m. While Campbell and his partners were eventually able to film 1987’s Evil Dead II, it did not result in any huge financial windfall for the actor.
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Campbell took a supporting role instead production was strained, and the movie (released in 1985) bombed. He did, and word quickly came down that he would not be the star of the film. Both men assumed Campbell would portray the lead, but the studio told them to slow down: They asked Campbell to film a screen test first. He was bumped from his next starring role.Īfter filming a Chrysler commercial, Campbell agreed to jump back in with longtime tormentor Raimi for an action–comedy picture called Crimewave. Having ditched his Montgomery Ward’s pants, Campbell says it was “the first time a woman had openly expressed an interest” in him. As a bonus, he also met his first wife, co-star Christine Deveau. He played a teacher named Alan Stuart and received $35 a scene. The Evil Dead led to soap opera stardom for Campbell.įlush with success from 1981’s release of the horror classic, Campbell returned to Michigan and got himself hired on the regional soap opera Generations. Among the alternative titles suggested were Blood Flood, Death of the Dead, and The Evil Dead, which Campbell called “poor” but “the least worst of the bunch.” 5. Irvin Shapiro, a wheeler-dealer who had helped horror filmmaker George Romero find his audience, dismissed it, insisting people would think they’d have to read. When Raimi and his crew finally finished shooting their splatter flick The Evil Dead and began seeking a distribution deal, they were calling it Book of the Dead.
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He lasted a year as a driver before recommitting to film work in 1978 with Raimi’s low-budget, shot-in-Michigan short Within the Woods, which would become the proof-of-concept for their feature film, The Evil Dead. While working the overnight shift, he sometimes found himself toting around prostitutes who would offer their services instead of paying the fare: Campbell declined the arrangement. He fended off the advances of prostitutes.Īfter dropping out of college to pursue acting, Campbell found work with a Detroit-area taxi company, Southfield Cab. By the time he graduated, he had gone on less than five dates. They “wore through at the knees and butt too quickly,” he wrote, preferring Montgomery Ward’s work pants and his father’s dark brown smoking jacket as his ensemble of choice. He was not a fashion plate.Īs detailed in his 2001 autobiography, If Chins Could Kill, Campbell saw no need to sport blue jeans while cruising the hallways of his Michigan high school in the 1970s. Despite the acrimonious classroom behavior, the two began to collaborate on Super 8 films along with friends Josh Becker, Scott Spiegel, and Raimi’s brother, Ivan. Their dysfunctional relationship began in high school, where Raimi was fond of sitting behind Campbell and pressing a pencil into his back while his “friend” was attempting to answer a question from a teacher. The Evil Dead director and frequent Campbell collaborator Sam Raimi has repeatedly expressed his delight in torturing Campbell for cameras, drowning him in fake blood and poking him with a stick in order to elicit his desired performance.
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