House Of Wax

Question: What appealed to you about the character of Carly?

Elisha Cuthbert: The character was most appealing at first because I was coming off of “The Girl Next Door,” which sort of was a great first film for me, but I wanted to do something extremely different.

And when Joel brought me “House of Wax,” I thought this is perfect because the genre is different, the idea is different, and the character is nothing like Danielle in “The Girl Next Door.” We kind of created Carly in the sense that she was a lot more tomboyish, not so particularly pretty – but pretty in her own way -...

Q: Did you take any of the wax props home with you?

I don't want to burst anyone's bubble, but actual wax doesn't look like actual wax screen I guess. So it was a food preservative. So I took a lot of food preservative home with me. It was a food filler with sort of a jelly substance -- and if you can imagine like curdled milk with a hair gel kind of thing. And that sort of had a good consistency that showed up on camera and was easier to maneuver than actual wax. And I guess if wax was liquid, it was going to be too hot.

So lucky me, the first thing that happened when I got there, I walk...