Online French horror magazine, CINEMA FANTASTIQUE has featured Michele as their weekly Scream Queen. The website is dedicated to French speaking readers, so if you can read french check the article in full. Otherwise, here is the loose interpretation:
Physically reminiscent of the Olsen sisters, a bewitching smile and a generous form, Michele Morrow apparently has everything to please. All the more so that the priestess bites life with full teeth, compiling roles in independent horror film productions and trying her hand at writing screen plays. A woman invested in a genre that, paradoxically, scares her…from what springs this shameful desire to protect her and press her slender body into their hairy arms? With a stint on the series ALIAS and currently in the movie BLED, a small indie vampire film, Michele exorcizes the craziest fantasies and provokes the development in the Tex Avery language fashion for all the lecherous voyeurs who feed on or revel in blood one time or another. A new occasion for our good Gore Sliclez to set free…..her impulses to block them.
You graduated in Dramatic arts in Seattle and directly moved on Los Angeles. Was your goal always to make cinema?
Yes. Ever since I was a little girl actually. My mother was a stage actress who became a movie reviewer, so I grew up in theatres. I love telling stories and I love technology – so film is wonderful blend of my two major interests.You then followed courses of improvisation. Is it interesting for you on the set?
Improvisation is a major component of acting for me. The training has taught me to spontaneous and alive – even when I’m being killed by some horrible monster.Then your first film Slaughterhouse of the Rising Sun. Did you directly intend yourselves for the horrific cinema? Young, did you think of being in this particular world?
Haha, well, I grew up very afraid of horror movies. I can’t tell you how many times as a child I woke my father in the middle of the night and made him search the basement for bad guys. It wasn’t at all what I dreamed of as an actress, but I will say that horror movie sets are the most fun to be a part of.You also turned in the series Alias, a large production. What changed compared to the sets of the usual horrific movies?
The TV world is very fast – being that it’s a weekly show, it is very orderly and what we would call a well-oiled machine. It’s a totally different world than film. Movies have a start and end time and usually only last a few months. TV goes on indefinitely and their sets are like families who have worked together a very long time. I prefer the patience of a film set, but doing television is a nice change of pace.You have one of the main roles in BLED, a very original film of vampires. Can you tell us more about this role?
I play the role of Kerra, the innocent one in our group of friends. The story takes place in seedy downtown Los Angeles and revolves around a circle of artists. When a mind-altering drug is introduced, it sends the user into an alternate dimension where a bloodthirsty vampire awaits. My character is an introverted novelist who is in love with bad boy Eric, a womanizing musician type. Kerra relates to the audience, frightened and vulnerable, as she succumbs to the curious and defies her morals, only to threaten her very mortality. It is a very emotional, intense role.You have a high speed rhythm for shootings (Basement Jack, The Silo, Charm Bracelet, Ashley Ashes). Aren’t you tired too much by so many projects?
I’m never tired of too many projects! Keep ‘em comin’!Which are your models, your idols in the cinema?
Mary Louise Parker, Betty Davis, Jodie Foster, Natalie Portman, Naomi Watts, Rachel McAdams…honestly there are too many to list, but those are probably the tops.You also Co-write many projects like Aperture, a supernatural thriller. Do you hope that the project will be turned quickly? Do you see yourselves as a film’s producer one day?
Aperture is in re-writes and I expect it will be filmed next year. I do want to produce, and one day direct. I’ll focus on acting and writing for now though.For Ashley Ashes, you will give his cue Daniel Baldwin, Clint Howard and Willy Garson. With which famous actors would you wish to play one day?
Well my dream is to work with Robert Downey, Jr. I think I’d become a better actor by just standing next to him. I think doing a Wes Craven flick would be pretty awesome as well as anything by Steven King.
