Joe Kucan Interview page 2

14 Jan 2010 at 14:23:21 by

Is he really?

He really is.

That's news to me! I dunno, all I hear is every time I try to negotiate a new contract with EA they tell me how nobody likes the character, nobody likes the guy, so they're going to have to pay me significantly less.

And this, of course, is why they're finishing off Kane's story in this game!

*laughs* That's exactly right. My contract demands were such that it was bankrupting the company, so they've decided to move him off to the side, and hire Pauly Shore or somebody to come in and play Kane for the future.

Pauly Shore? Really?

*laughs* Yeah, actually. They made him an offer. He turned them down. Not enough money. And he wouldn't shave his head.

You can't have Kane without the shaved head though, surely?

Well, now that he's got the long blonde hair and the bosom, I think that that's maybe a direction they want to go.

*laughs* You think Pauly Shore could pull that off?

He's a fine actor. A fine, fine actor. *laughs* We're in the UK. Do you know who Pauly Shore is?

*laughs* Yes.

Okay, good. Then it's funny! 'Coz if you didn't know, then it wouldn't have been. *laughs*

So Command & Conquer 4, as well, has taken... I mean, we've been told that it's taking a much more serious role with the cinematics and the way things are unfolding. It's going to be a bit less campy and B-movie than the Red Alert series certainly is, and the earlier games, to an extent, going back more to the first one.

Campy? Campy? How dare you, sir. How dare you?

I mean it in the nicest way possible!

*laughs* There is a new direction in the new cinematics, although they haven't been quite forthcoming. They've been using words like "gritty," and "realistic", and "a new direction." It's a musical, and there are a lot of dance numbers, which I think is going to take the gameplay experience in a whole different direction. Kane himself actually has like a five minute tap sequence early on, in the beginning of the game, in the second act - to really start the game off with a bang. So in that sense, yeah, it is a pretty new direction.

And was that difficult for you to rehearse? I mean, you're obviously a very versatile actor but is that something you've done much of before?

Well I don't know if you've been... I recently got a Guinness Book of World Record for being the greatest actor in the history of the universe.

How did they measure that?

I don't know. I just hung it on my wall. I don't know.

Joe Kucan, thank you very much. This has been an absolute pleasure and a revelation.

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