JONATHAN BRECK: [Originally] the first one had the last 20 minutes [being] an adrenaline-pumping chase scene, basically. We were able to put that in into the second one. It was a huge, big, expensive scene that we just didn’t have the budget for in the first one, but we got to put it in the second one.
What was the most memorable - or difficult - sequence to film?
AL SANTOS: I think the sequence where you are hanging upside down in the back of the bus. Lots of people talk about that.
JONATHAN BRECK: That was an interesting scene. I mean, hanging from your ankles, I’ve done it down in Mexico drinking Tequila (laughing). This was like an hour and a half of hanging by your ankles. You feel every part of your eyeballs, so that got pretty interesting.
RAY WISE: I want to hear that story (laughing).
JONATHAN BRECK: But these guys (indicating the younger actors) had to work the whole time in the confined space of a school bus. I don’t know when the last time was you were on a school bus, but for a full-sized person to be on a school bus – and all of them were packed in there – it’s amazing they didn’t kill each other before I got to them.
AL SANTOS: We have some good stories.
NICKI AYCOX: Everybody reverted right back to their grade school years, I think, the second we got on the bus.
AL SANTOS: Spit wads, fighting…
TRAVIS SCHIFFNER: Papers being thrown over the seats, wrestling matches...
NICKI AYCOX: I got blamed for throwing the fake glass. Victor asked me to please stop throwing the fake glass. I said I wasn’t doing it, but he didn’t believe me.
AL SANTOS: I was part of that as well.
MARIEH DELFINO: At the end of the summer we said we never wanted to be on a bus again, and here we go, out on a [promotional tour] for three weeks.
AL SANTOS: You don’t realize how small a school bus is until you step on it now.
MARIEH DELFINO: And you spend 9 weeks on it (laughing).
NICKI AYCOX: But I think it gave us all a chance to get [to know each other]. I mean, you had nowhere to go but to become really good friends with the person sitting next to you. You had no choice, otherwise you won’t enjoy yourself. I think it created a really good bonding atmosphere.
TRAVIS SCHIFFNER: Plus you were able to feed off of each other. When you’re doing takes and everybody is screaming and getting crazy, you can just feed off of each other. It’s like a panic [situation].
How violent is this one compared to the first movie?
MARIEH DELFINO: It’s "Jeepers Creepers 2" – twice the violence.
AL SANTOS: There’s a lot more action.
LENA CARDWELL: Twice the violence, and the pain.
RAY WISE: I think we’d multiple it be a factor of at least 10 - at least. It’s pretty intense.
When you went in for casting, were you aware who was going to end up dead? Did you try and talk them out of that?
KASAN BUTCHER: Some of us knew, but then some of it changed.
AL SANTOS: The script changed so much from the original to what it turned out to be. Even when the movie was done being filmed, they were over by 40 minutes or 60 minutes or something.
KASAN BUTCHER: I died in the first 5 minutes in the first version. Becoming friends with the director is always a good idea (laughing).
NICKI AYCOX: I think it’s also fun to see yourself get mutilated on screen, you know? It’s like, “Wow, that’s what it looks like.”
Will there be a "Jeepers Creepers 3?"
JONATHAN BRECK: Well, it has yet to be decided.
RAY WISE: I’m game, I’ll come back. I don’t believe I’m dead at the end, am I?
JONATHAN BRECK: You’re damn old though, boy (laughing).
RAY WISE: I’ll go after him with my dying breath.
Would you do it again, Jonathan?
JONATHAN BRECK: As long as they keep making movies, as long as they keep doing a better job than with the movie before – which is what I think they did with this one – I’m game, definitely. They did a great job with this movie.
