How we made A Nightmare on Elm Street

‘The character has never left me.

Sometimes I’ll be stuck in traffic in La and he just comes out.

I’ll do the Freddy voice and shout: “Get out my way”’Before I played Freddy Krueger, I was in a lot of best-friend roles.

I needed something more distinctive – and thought this little indie film called A Nightmare on Elm Street might be it.

Wes Craven, the director, looked preppy, wearing Ralph Lauren and chinos, but looks were deceiving as he had a visionary mind.

Remember: he discovered both Johnny Depp and Sharon Stone.

He used to tell me that Freddy was the “bastard father of us all”.

The character was supposed to signify the loss of innocence, as teenagers turn into adults and become corrupted.

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