The TV Addict 

In the second in our series of interviews with the cast and creative team of BURN NOTICE, theTVaddict.com proudly presents a round table discussion, well really rectangular table discussion with Bruce Campbell — who was kind enough to spend time with theTVaddict.com Senior Editor Amrie Cunningham [as well as numerous other media outlets] on a recent visit to the set.

What is, in fact, the latest and the greatest?
Bruce Campbell: You’re, you’re, you’re looking at it right here. Uh, the TV show that sparked a new industry in southern Florida. I mean since we’ve started, things have been going crazy here. We had to kick Owen Wilson out for loitering.

What happened to the productions in Miami, because I was…
Well, it’s coming back. I mean, it’s back with a vengeance, I think. Because, uh, for some reason, this has become a facility now. I mean, it’s an old convention center and they were going to tear it down. And, and uh, the BURN NOTICE guys thought it would be a good facility to just start it from scratch. So that’s what we’ve been doing; building a facility, at the same doing a show.

At one point it seemed like everything was shot in Miami.
Yeah.

And then it just disappeared.
Could be a lot of things are, uh, insurance rules would change what a state, or what insurance companies won’t cover for hurricanes, and producers get a little skittish, you know. So it’s about that, it’s about incentives that the state offers. So, you know, it’s all about where producers can save dough and have a show that looks good.

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This past Saturday, The TV Addict found himself trapped inside a cabin in the woods alongside 400 blood-soaked strangers. What force was enticing enough to get me to abandon my TiVo and venture out on a Saturday night? One word: Ash. Or, as his driver’s license refers to him, Bruce Campbell.

Campbell, who can currently be seen on the small screen in the hit USA show BURN NOTICE was kind enough to take a break from his busy shooting schedule to come up to Toronto and attend EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL. The show, currently playing to sold out houses in Toronto, is based on the cult classic films which share its name — sans the singing — and which helped turn Campbell into erhaps the most recognizable B-movie actor in the world. Oh, but don’t tell him that.

“Have the three [EVIL DEAD] movies pigeon-holed me?” pondered Campbell when asked about the B-movie curse. “Let’s see… I’ve played a cowboy, a daring Dragoon, Elvis. Here’s what I would say. Audiences tend to pigeon hole me much more that the industry does. If your little pea brain sees only Ash, well that’s what you get. If you watch cowboy movies, you see me in that too. EVIL DEAD simply got me in the business. And the last one was 16 years ago!”

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