NEWS: SuicideGirls Video Interview with Beowulf Star Crispin Glover

CELEB: SuicideGirls Video Interview with Beowulf Star Crispin Glover

For those who slept through high school lit class, the name "Beowulf" may be nothing more than distant, saved-by-Cliff's Notes memory. For the rest of us, the name evokes a foul odor that wafts of late nights spent furiously thumbing through pages of the 700 AD English poem, trying to come to a semblance of understanding about the epic tale. Or not. There was always that one kid in class who could recite passages from the Anglo-Saxon text as if his heritage depended on it, leaving the rest of us stunned as diphthong, after diphthong, rolled off his Starbucks-stained tongue.



Regardless, if we only had then what we have now. This week marks the premiere of Robert Zemeckis' big screen, motion capture adaptation of Beowulf, starring Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Crispin Glover, Brendan Gleeson, Robin Wright Penn, Dominic Keating, Alison Lohman, and Angelina Jolie. Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary penned the screenplay -- a hedonistic tale of pride, adventure, love, monsters and heroes, with plenty of debauchery and adult humor to boot.



SuicideGirls caught up with the cast for a series of video interviews to chat about the film, in regular and IMAX theaters nationwide this Friday, November 16.



First up: Crispin Glover talks to SG about his character, the monster Grendel, who Beowulf seeks out to kill for the sake of his own honor and glory. This film is the first time Glover has worked with Zemeckis since starring as the endearing George McFly in Back to the Future and the lawsuit that followed. We asked him about the experience...









Want to see Beowulf in IMAX but spent all your money on last weekend's bender and looking at naked SGs? Well, we're giving away 50 pairs of IMAX ticket codes so you can see the film for free at participating theaters in your city. We'll send out the ticket gift codes to the first 50 people (US only) who email erin.broadley@suicidegirls.com by tomorrow November 15th, at 12 noon PST. Your email counts as the entry form. Please put "Beowulf" in the subject line. Check out my blog for rules and regulations. Enjoy, and don't blame us if you cower in the fetal position as a 30-foot-tall, naked Geat warrior comes hurling his manliness at you, yelling, "I am Beowulf!!!!"



Check back tomorrow for an interview with Ray Winstone, who plays Beowulf, and Friday for our one-on-one with John Malkovich, who plays Unferth.

Good God Crispin Glover is HOT! I never noticed before, of course I've only seen him surrounded by mice or tearing out chunks of Drew Barrymore's hair.

I love Crispin Glover, he should be in every movie

as polite as he is, i think by 'taboo' he meant more like... cerebral palsy more than tattoos and boobs.

I liked Beowulf. I don't drink Starbucks.

I've yet to actually hear any of his lines in footage from the movie. Does Grendel do much talking?

yeah, he actually does do a fair amount of talking. and screaming

email me today to win passes!

erin.broadley@suicidegirls.com

I love Crispin Glover. His middle name is Hellion, you know. His independent stuff is hyper-creative but super unconventional, something like Alejandro Jodorowsky, but lighter on the scat and aftros. He also manages some really complicated and artful concepts of terror. And boobs a-plenty. I'm really glad you didn't edit out his personality in this interview. That happens so often. He seems like someone I'd really like to hang out with to talk about frightening and wonderful things and spill stuff on each other accidentally.

Dude, when I was liking Beowulf in high school Starbuck was still hunting the white whale. It was the greasy spoon diner's dishwater coffee, plus smoking cloves and reading Anaiis Nin and Camus and imagining Montmartre. That's what you smelled.

i'm kind of worried about this movie (haven't watched the clip just yet..)

all the stars named make me think it'll be a 300 version of the Battle of Thermoplaye (glad spelling didn't count in ancient history). if it follows that formula.. there'll be a monster named grendel.. and a hero named beowulf.. and.. anything else goes.. (i'm kind of hoping for an eight foot tall drag queen saying "I am kind" because it amuses me.)

I bought the book a couple of months ago because I am that kind of geek.. sadly.. required reading has gotten in the way of reading it..

all the same. i'm sure i'll still see it and hopefully like it.. i just hope people take it for what it is..

And Huxley and Miller and Artaud and Voltaire. . . and of course, Sartre

Crispin Hellion Glover is always a fucking WIN

George McFly gets no love in the trailer I see on tv.
Lame!

i like seamus heaneys version of beowulf. the fact that the movie is all blue screen puts me off. ray winstone has'nt had a six pack in 20 years. if ever!

I hated Beowulf, and really enjoy Hollywood's debasing it. I laugh evilly every time I see the trailer.

Crispin Glover is one of those actors that amazes in every role. Tim Roth is another. Their range is subtle, but wide. I truly enjoy their work.

I told my brother the same thing, he told me to lighten up...

wait wait. crispin glover is grendel?


oh man!