![]() I didn’t want to be a part of that anymore. I was in a dark place then, and had kind of hung up the acting cleats. That’s really cool.’ And he said, ‘What do you think about playing The Man in the Mask?’ A lot of people have been wondering and waiting for this sequel. He called me up one day and said, ‘We’re going to do the Strangers movie.’ I said, ‘Oh, that’s awesome. He’s a producer on Bone Tomahawk, Cheap Thrills, Starry Eyes. He directed a short film called Wildfires, and he wanted me to play the lead in that, so I did. Jon is great, very personable guy, and we got along instantly. One of the producers on that was Jon Wagner. ![]() It was shot at an abandoned amusement park in Ohio. In 2008, I was cast as one of the leads in this movie called Closed for the Season. Then I headed out into the world and stumbled around trying to get paid. I had a mentor, and he shoved me off to this acting school in New York City, the William Esper Studio. And I just stuck with that.Īfter high school I went to college, and they had a great acting program. I wasn’t on the stage, I was in the pit doing her voice, but I just loved it. My second year, I got the part of Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors. ![]() And they made you audition for the school musical, so I had to do that. It seemed like a pretty easy thing to do, you know, just sit in the back and get an A, but I was into it. So in high school, I took an acting class, because it was there. It really kind of connected me to more to the movie, and I wanted to see more from those actors. I remember when I started to get into horror movies as a young child that shouldn’t be watching these horrible things, she would walk by and she would recognize some actor and she would tell me about them. I guess I was always a big fan of movies and theater, and that really came from my mother, who would always be watching movies. I was born and raised and lived in New York all my life until the last couple of years, when I escaped from New York. Damian Maffei is The Man in the Mask in ‘The Strangers: Prey at Night’Ĭan you tell me about what led you to be the new Man in the Mask in The Strangers: Prey at Night? Read on for our full interview with Damian Maffei. A decade after the masked trio first terrorized theaters, The Strangers are back in the most shocking sequel in years, with a new man behind the “sack head” mask, and we recently caught up with Damian Maffei to talk about becoming a horror icon and how to Prey at Night.Ī well trained actor with a true appreciation for the classics of the genre and a wicked sense of humor, Maffei also gives us a preview of his next killer role in the upcoming Halloween horror film Haunt.
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