'Fright Night' Star Christopher Mintz-Plasse 'Gets' Vampire Appeal

'It was cool to play something evil and dark,' actor tells MTV News.
By Terri Schwartz, with reporting by Josh Horowitz


Christopher Mintz-Plasse in "Fright Night"
Photo: DreamWorks

The vampires in "Fright Night" might not sparkle in the sunlight, but star Christopher Mintz-Plasse still understands their appeal.

"Now I get it, why people play vampires," he told MTV News during Movie Awards Sneak Peek Week. "I'm like, there've been vampire movies. [But] that was really a lot of fun to do."

The crux of the issue, director Craig Gillespie explained, is that vampires are sexy. He made the argument that there are always vampire movies, but their popularity surges in waves. In the '80s, there was "The Lost Boys," in the '90s there was "Interview With the Vampire" and now it's "The Twilight Saga" keeping the vampire craze afloat.

The key was finding a good vampire to sit at the flick's center, and Gillespie said he always knew lead Colin Farrell would be good for the part. Farrell's character, Jerry, is dark but also has a humorous aspect, and Gillespie was impressed with Farrell's ability to walk that line. He knew it wouldn't be a hard sell either because Hollywood celebrities tend to be drawn to vampire films.

"It's one of those things that actors love to do, because you're getting to play sort of an iconic kind of character that has all this history with them. You get to have a lot of fun with it," Gillespie explained.

Mintz-Plasse certainly did. His character, Ed, gets (spoiler alert!) converted to a vampire in the movie, and Mintz-Plasse was psyched to whip out his inner bloodsucker.

"It was cool to play something evil and dark," he said.

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Lindsay Lohan Suing Over Pitbull's 'Give Me Everything'

In the suit, actress alleges the line 'I got it locked up like Lindsay Lohan' has caused 'irreparable harm.'
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It is seemingly a throwaway line in Pitbull's summertime smash "Give Me Everything" — "I got it locked up like Lindsay Lohan" — but it's apparently enough to draw the ire of the actress and her legal team, who have just filed suit against Pit and the producers of the song.

In the lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, Lohan and her attorney, Stephanie Ovadia, claim that the line "by virtue of its wide appeal, condemnation, excoriation, disparaging or defamatory statements by the defendants about the plaintiff are destined to do irreparable harm to the plaintiff."

Lohan — who, it is noted in the suit, is "a professional actor of good repute and standing in the Screen Actors Guild" — is suing under the New York civil-rights laws, which protects individuals from having their name exploited for commercial purposes. The suit seeks an injunction to stop all the defendants — in addition to Pitbull, Ne-Yo and Afrojack, who wrote "Give Me Everything," are named — from broadcasting the song. It also seeks unspecified damages.

A spokesperson for Pitbull had no comment on the suit when reached by MTV News.

Lohan filed a similar suit — reportedly seeking $100 million in damages — against financial services company E-Trade last year after the company aired a Super Bowl commercial that referred to a baby as "That milkaholic Lindsay." The suit was withdrawn in September, with E-Trade reportedly paying Lohan "a confidential sum."

The "Give Me Everything" lyric was in reference to Lohan's July 2010 stint in Los Angeles County Jail, when she served 13 days of a three-month sentence for violating probation on a 2007 conviction for driving under the influence.

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Lohan — who, it is noted in the suit, is "a professional actor of good repute and standing in the Screen Actors Guild" — is suing under the New York civil-rights laws, which protects individuals from having their name exploited for commercial purposes. The suit seeks an injunction to stop all the defendants — in addition to Pitbull, Ne-Yo and Afrojack, who wrote "Give Me Everything," are named — from broadcasting the song. It also seeks unspecified damages.

A spokesperson for Pitbull had no comment on the suit when reached by MTV News.

Lohan filed a similar suit — reportedly seeking $100 million in damages — against financial services company E-Trade last year after the company aired a Super Bowl commercial that referred to a baby as "That milkaholic Lindsay." The suit was withdrawn in September, with E-Trade reportedly paying Lohan "a confidential sum."

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