{"id":185929,"date":"2025-11-17T21:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/185929\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T21:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:01:12","slug":"crispin-glover-on-friday-the-13th-franchise-return-never-say-never-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/185929\/","title":{"rendered":"Crispin Glover on ‘Friday the 13th’ Franchise Return: “Never Say Never” [Exclusive]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before making a name for himself in films like Back to the Future, River\u2019s Edge, and Wild at Heart, Crispin Glover<\/strong> danced his way into horror fans\u2019 hearts as the ill-fated Jimmy Mortimer in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As it\u2019s not unprecedented for horror franchises to resurrect fan-favorite characters, I asked Glover during a recent conversation if he\u2019d be interested in returning to the Friday the 13th franchise if the opportunity presented itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor some reason, that really makes me laugh,\u201d Glover guffaws.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnything is possible,\u201d he says. \u201cThat is such an unlikely thing that would happen<\/strong>. It\u2019s not something I\u2019ve ever even contemplated. I don\u2019t really see how that would happen, but you never say never, I suppose.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is funny to me how that particular film and franchise is such a thing, because it certainly wasn\u2019t what I was in it for, but people really do like the Friday the 13th series.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glover recalls, \u201cThe same year \u2014 it might have been the very month \u2014 that the first Friday the 13th came out, there was a re-release of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre<\/strong>. I was 16, and I was seeing a lot of films, driving around Los Angeles. That was an important year for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continues, \u201cWhen I saw Texas Chain Saw Massacre as the re-release, I liked it. I thought it was an interesting movie. And then I went and saw Friday the 13th, the first one, in its first run at the movie theater.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause I had just seen Texas Chain Saw Massacre, to me, it seemed derivative. My sense was Texas Chain Saw Massacre was the better film. It wasn\u2019t like I hated Friday the 13th, but I wasn\u2019t compelled to go see another one of the movies<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glover acknowledges, \u201cWhat it really is, is that the entire slasher film genre is essentially all derivative of the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. I thought that was a good movie. I\u2019m not that drawn to the genre as a filmgoer, but I understand there are people that like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

When it came time to audition for Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, Glover reflects, \u201cIt was the fourth part of a series that I hadn\u2019t seen the second or third, so I wasn\u2019t particularly thinking, \u2018Wow, this will be great!\u2019 I was thinking, \u2018I need a job as an actor!’\u201d<\/p>\n

He adds, \u201cI found the person I was going to be auditioning with through their agents. I knew by that time that it was good, if you\u2019re going into an audition with somebody, to work with them before, just so energetically the scene played well.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe rehearsed it, and then went in and did the audition, and I got the part. I was glad I got the part, because I needed to work<\/strong>,\u201d he chuckles.<\/p>\n

Released in 1984, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter saw Jason Voorhees return to stalk a group of friends renting a house near Crystal Lake.<\/p>\n

Crispin Glover is currently touring with his new film, No! You\u2019re Wrong. or: Spooky Action at a Distance<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before making a name for himself in films like Back to the Future, River\u2019s Edge, and Wild at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[57676,18,117,4500,61754,104531,19,17,327],"class_list":{"0":"post-185929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-crispin-glover","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-exclusive","12":"tag-friday-the-13th","13":"tag-friday-the-13th-the-final-chapter","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-movies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115567059505920352","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}