![]() ![]() HOLTZ: The makeup didn’t really come into play for me until toward the end of the, and I had already been used to doing long hours and working so much. I’m comfortable around them.ĪX: How do you deal with the Culebra makeup? That’s not CG – we shot that snake on the day. If you see the poster for the second season, there’s an image of me and Santanico and snakes around us. I had a couple of snakes, I had a Pacman frog, one of the big frogs, so I’ve never been bothered by snakes. He’s still the same man, he just has these abilities. ![]() I just thought it was important that, going into Season 2, just because he’s gotten bit, his personality doesn’t change. I think the coolest thing about Richie for Season 2 is, even though he’s a Culebra, when he is in human form, he’s still the same guy, he still has the same interests, the little quips and quirks and things that people liked or didn’t like from Season 1. I’ve tried so hard not to let the demon stuff overwhelm the character. I think if I were to research real bank robbers, it might not have played as much, because this is a heightened role and so much of what we’re playing is the relationship between the brothers, me and D.J., so that’s what I put most of my efforts into.ĪX: Do you study snakes at all for the way Richie might move when he’s in full Culebra mode? I worked with the material that I had from the page, as well as my instincts, and saw what made sense for me. HOLTZ: Demons or bank robbers or psychopaths? I didn’t. If I went in worried about that, it would hinder my abilities as an actor, so I just put that aside and did the best that I could.ĪX: Did you do any research into the role at all, either into bank robbers – HOLTZ: I had to ignore it, because if I went in there with that weighing on my mind, I wouldn’t be able to do the character justice. I was like, “I guess I just have to bide my time and see when the scripts for Episode Seven, Eight, Nine and Ten roll out and make sure that I make it out of the Twister alive.” So I was happy to survive the first season.ĪX: Did you feel any pressure playing a character who’d been played by Quentin Tarantino? ![]() Holtz sits down for a chat about all things Richie Gecko during El Rey’s portion of the Television Critics Association press tour.ĪX: When you started on FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, did you expect Richie to survive the end of the first season? Holtz, who hails from British Columbia, was a regular in MAKE IT OR BREAK IT and has film credits including VAMPIRES SUCK, THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER, 7 MINUTES and the upcoming WIND WALKERS and THE CURSE OF DOWNERS GROVE. In both versions, Richie is bitten and turned, but in a big change from the movie, where Seth killed him in an act of mercy, the erstwhile criminal survives as a Culebra and is taken under the wing of ancient but beautiful Santanico Pandemonium (Eiza Gonzalez in the series, Salma Hayek in the feature). The mythology now explicitly goes back to Aztec times, with the snakelike Culebra clans working and dueling with human crime lords. The TV version, created by Rodriguez for the network he founded, hewed close to the film for much of the first season, but then diverged and expanded. Cotrona in the series, George Clooney on the big screen), both bank robbers and on the run from the law after killing a Texas Ranger, kidnap a family and wind up taking shelter at the T***y Twister bar – which turns out to be full of vampires. DUSK is based on the 1995 film, directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino from a story by Robert Kurtzman, in which Richie (played by Tarantino in the movie) and his brother Seth (D.J. Zane Holtz plays Richie Gecko in El Rey’s series FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, which returns for its second season on Tuesday, August 25. ![]()
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