At SXSW this year, I was able to interview three native-Texas actors from the movie Premature, which premiered at the fest (my review). Let's start with Houston native John Karna, who also starred in the 2012 Slamdance audience-award-winning comedy Bindlestiffs (Jette's Dallas Iff review).
Slackerwood: So this is your first big picture?
John Karna: This is, yeah. This is my first paid movie gig, which is awesome they trusted me to do it.
So Bindlestiffs was unpaid?
Karna: Unpaid, it was a passion project with my friends. We just decided when I was in high school, my friends and I -- Andrew Edison who directed and Luke Loftin who wrote it -- we decided to do this improv movie just for fun. And we finished it and submitted it, and it got into Slamdance and won the audience award and Kevin Smith was a huge fan of it, and that was pretty badass.
Slackerwood: So this is your first big picture?
John Karna: This is, yeah. This is my first paid movie gig, which is awesome they trusted me to do it.
So Bindlestiffs was unpaid?
Karna: Unpaid, it was a passion project with my friends. We just decided when I was in high school, my friends and I -- Andrew Edison who directed and Luke Loftin who wrote it -- we decided to do this improv movie just for fun. And we finished it and submitted it, and it got into Slamdance and won the audience award and Kevin Smith was a huge fan of it, and that was pretty badass.
- 3/19/2014
- by Mike Saulters
- Slackerwood
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