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Conrad: Oh, yeah, in the 40s, before you people were born!
Jennifer: It was a hotspot back then…
Conrad: I loved it! I lived in New York City in the 40s, but I came over a lot. You could walk the streets all night. No vampires then! (Laughs)
Deana: We didn't come in till later, that's it! (Laughs)
[Deana is eventually asked about how job offers come to her.]
Deana: I do find as a new actress, people approach you with so many scripts and stuff, you always wonder who's actually going to do what they tell you they wanna do…
Jennifer: And who's not.
Deana: Karl was talking to me for a couple, I would say, months, before he actually started the film. And I know when he called me on the phone I would sit there and think, "Is he really gonna do it?" And then as soon as I got the script… when they send you an actual script and say, "This is what I want to do and can you be here?" Then you know it's coming through! Ironbound has given me something. When you play a victim people don't really get to see you act. I mean, if you consider a woman screaming and, you know, getting killed "acting" - there is a certain degree of acting to it, but they don't actually see you get to say lines and be a character. I have a lot of people coming up to me now. First when they used to say it, I'd get offended and now I understand what they're saying. They'll come up and go, "I didn't know you could act!" I look at it now as, well, this has given me that step that I need to prove I can be more than just (laughs) a dead girl in someone's basement!
Jennifer: (to Karl) So this kind of stuff in the little folder that came with the screener, is that all just to promote the film… or is that a pre-existing business? You're selling stuff like the skull with the hologram eyes…
Karl: That's Jo-Ann Barton, who sings and does the music [for Ironbound Vampire]; that's her business.
Jennifer: So is she goth?
Karl: No, not even close. The thing is, she's one of the people who helped me in the production. She's also did this cameo in the bar scene.
Jennifer: The music isn't goth, it's more like straight-ahead rock & roll, and folk.
Karl: There's a lot of things about this movie that are different than others. I was trying not to be stereotypical. I didn't want people running around with crosses. I didn't want everybody always showing fangs and running around in capes. I wanted this air of being a very sad love story... That's why when you saw the women drinking the blood at the bar, they weren't sporting any type of fangs or anything.
Jennifer: More like they were trying to sneak a designer drug.
Karl: Right… It came across as being a matter of routine.
Steve: Some of the changes in vampires seem to come from Anne Rice's stories.
Jennifer: And Martin.
Steve: Martin, which is older. And that tv show, the Canadian - I'm a cop, I'm a vampire - Forever Knight. Was that an influence?
Karl: I never saw that show.