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Along for the Ride with Mercedes McNab
December 14, 2007

You would think, in an indie horror film entitled Hatchet (Anchor Bay, Street: Dec. 18), that maybe, just maybe you would be afforded a showstopping, stomach-turning on-screen death scene.

 

“I was really bummed,” says actress Mercedes McNab, whose character of Misty in Hatchet gets healthy dollop of good lines but is spared somewhat in her demise.

 

We won’t spoil it, but: “I really wanted a good awesome killing like everyone else got. But in the reading of my

part in the script all you see is ‘Misty goes missing’ and then all of a sudden you see her”--it can be said Misty has gone to pieces in the excitement--“but it’s funny and it works for the movie, but at the same time I wanted an on-screen death.”

 

The blonde beauty has stayed busy the last several years in a career boosted by her turn as the loveably dim-witted Harmony Kendall in the TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, as well landing on the cover of Playboy magazine.

 

Feature films may be calling for the Vancouver native, but “I would love to do another TV show like Buffy or Angel with an ensemble cast so you get to do everything; you can do dramatic things but you also get to do comic relief. I like to make people laugh.”

 

Does Mercedes think she’s funny enough to write a comedy?

 

“I can make jokes in the moment but I’m not a very good storyteller,” she confides. “I’m always skipping ahead to the good part. I’ve thought about it, but it’s not as easy as it looks.

 

“If anything,” she adds, “I’d kind of like to direct, maybe.”

 

Ha! That’s funny.

 

“No, I really would. I do mean it. I’m a little bit of a control freak.”—Buzz McClain

Posted by Laurence Lerman on December 14, 2007 | Comments (0)