Ash vs the Evil Dead : Bruce Campbell explains really why he had to leave the saga

Cinema 21 August, 2018

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Bruce Campbell may well have formalized the end of their great adventure alongside the Evil Dead, while the world still has trouble believing it. And yet…

Ash Williams symbolizes, since the first Evil Dead directed by Sam Raimi, a certain idea of America. Anti-hero turn-brave, stupid, brute, conceited, lustful, generous, and always deeply human.

This unusual person has become completely inseparable from the performer, Bruce Campbell, quickly transformed into an icon of genre cinema. But with the cancellation of any recent of the series derived from’Evil Dead, the well-named Ash vs Evil Dead, it is a love story between the audience and the artist that broke.

A role often physical

EVIL AND DEAD

It lasted for a long time, and this is precisely where the problem is : Bruce Campbell is not any longer very young, and to be able to interpret the elastic man as the Deadites torture for decades. This is what he explained in the columns of Bloody Disgusting :

“There is also another reason to hang up the chainsaw. There is a physical dimension in this role, which is indispensable, and that I do not feel able to take. Or that I shouldn’t assume, because I’ve managed to pull of these films relatively intact. A tendon slammed by a toe crushed by there, nothing too serious. But it is one of the reasons of my departure. “

“get away relatively intact”

Finally, and this saddens can be the most fan, that is how much the artist seems to detach itself entirely of this great franchise. To such a point that it has no difficulty to imagine the continuation of the adventures of his playmates.

“I would be immediately starting to continue the story of Mia, because she is damn badass now. I will continue also with the Ghost Beaters, because Kelly and Pablo are just as badass now. Pablo is a shaman, which gives him super powers, while Kelly is a girl thirsting for revenge.

Kelly and Pablo

So, I think that would be super. It would please me and for me it would be no problem if it reintroduced an all-new Ash. “

For the kick, find Mia, heroine of the remake of 2013, signed Fede Alvarez, would not be displeasing to us. It was interpreted by the brilliant Jane Levy, and was an alternative/proofreading of Ash, particularly interesting.

Jane Levy in Don’t Breathe