Blood Relatives screens at the drafthouse tonight and tomorrow. We talked to actor and filmmaker kidblue about Judaism, vampires, and cool cars.
– and, of course, Southern-fried classic. He described Francis as thinking he was like Bill Paxton as shitkicking redneck vamp Severen,"swaggering around, causing all kinds of trouble, and thinking I was Mr. Cool Guy, and all of a sudden I wake up and it'sis all heart,"with some sincerity, some earnestness, some dad jokes." Dad jokes? Absolutely, said Segan."The nature of a dad joke in general is that it's really honest.
For much of the film it's just Francis, Jane, and of course Francis' cherry 1969 Barracuda Fastback with a 383 in Blue Fire, currently parked in Segan's garage/office. A gift from his friend and mentor, cinematographer Tom Richmond , Segan called it"a totem of joy and family and connectedness, so it only made sense to put it in the movie." The car got a road trip of its own for filming – to Taylor, Texas.
Wherever he filmed, Francis' experience as a migrant European Jew was making the trip. As a fifth-generation New York Jew ,was Segan's way to explore his own heritage through Francis, hiding his trauma beneath a leather jacket."He thinks that makes him OK, but he never moved past it. He just put on the costume and thinks, 'Well, that fixes it.
At the same time, Segan clearly feels a little pride about kicking back at the modern, often very nebbish depictions of Jews onscreen. He said,"We forget there was a time when James Caan and Elliot Gould and Albert Brooks were sex symbols. These guys were movie stars and they were unabashedly Jewish. ... Maybe what I can contribute is that maybe I do have a little bit of swagger, and I'm a Jew – but it ended up being a little silly.
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