DRACULA GRANTS FIRST-EVER INTERVIEW
Hotel
Transylvania is Dracula’s lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their
families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are without humans to
bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula has invited some of the world’s
most famous monsters — Frankenstein and his wife, the Mummy, the Invisible Man,
a family of werewolves, and more — to celebrate his daughter Mavis’ 118th
birthday.
Poster courtesy of Columbia Pictures |
Question:
Now, c’mon - are you really the Count Dracula?
Dracula: Of course I’m the Count Dracula -
what a human thing to ask! Look at my cape, my fangs. Have you ever met anyone
else named Dracula?? Of course not. It’s me. You know, we all live with
stereotypes. They all think I go “Bleh-bleh-bleh” all the time – which is
really annoying and not true.
Q:
I see. So I should be scared right now that you’re going to try and suck my
blood or something?
Dracula: No way – how do I know where your
blood has been? I watch my cholesterol, and I just saw you eating a hot dog
from that man on the street, so no way!
Q:
So, as a vampire, you don’t need to drink human blood?
Dracula:
It’s not
healthy, truly. You don’t know where it’s been and it can be so fatty. So I use
blood substitutes, as do most of the other vampires I know. They’ve gotten very
good at it – with “Near Blood,” “Blood Beaters.” It tastes the same, if not
better, to be quite honest.
Q:
Now, I’ve heard you say that monsters no longer kill humans, is that true?
Dracula:
We never did,
it’s just so primitive. I’m surprised you even brought that up.
Q:
What made you decide to open Hotel Transylvania which is a hotel for monsters?
Dracula: There’s no safe place for monsters
to go, to be free from humankind, where they can be themselves with their
families. For centuries, everywhere we’ve turned, humans have come at us with
torches, pitchforks, yelling, trying to scoop out our brains and put candy in
our heads instead. I had had enough, and so had everyone I knew. Something had
to be done.
Q:
What kinds of things does Hotel Transylvania have to offer that monsters can’t
find anywhere else?
Dracula:
Well, first of
all, it’s simple: NO HUMANS.
Q:
What else?
Dracula:
We have the
kinds of amenities that monsters just love: culinary delicacies like
spleens-in-a-blanket – even deviled lizard fingers, though I prefer the
spleens. We have talking shrunken head “Do Not Disturb” door hangers, zombies
are there to handle your every need and witches keep the place clean. We have
“live” music – if you want to call it that – and dancing and swimming. Plus, we
have the highest ceilings of any monstrous hotel – for even the biggest of Big
Feet.
Q:
What are some of the toughest challenges of running a hotel such as this?
Dracula: There are many. Keeping the place
full of cobwebs is a daily chore. Our guests expect dust – nothing can smell
fresh. And with the large variety of guests – everything from werewolves,
invisible men, mummies, gremlins – you name it – you have to have an incredible
variety of delicious things to eat. Our French chef, Quasimodo, is simply
amazing – always pushing the boundaries.
Q:
Your daughter Mavis is turning 118 this year, which is a major milestone. How
do you feel about it?
Dracula:
Well, first of
all, Mavis is just wonderful – the apple of her mother’s eye. I suppose the
biggest challenge has been simply keeping her away from humans. There are
plenty of nice monsters out there, but she never seems interested. I even tried
to connect her with a wonderful zombie who really liked her for her brains, but
she complained it was because he wanted to eat them! And she’s always wanted to
venture out, but I’ve been quite firm about it. I’ve always just wanted to
protect her, and with a girl as smart and decisive as Mavis, that can be
difficult.
(“Hotel Transylvania” is distributed by Columbia Pictures, local office of Sony
Pictures Releasing International.)
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