What’s your favorite scene in "House of Wax?"
ELISHA CUTHBERT: I don’t want to give away anything… I can’t give away that one… There’s a lot of them. There’s a moment in the film where Chad’s character and my character finally come together and decide that we need to do something about the situation. And we sort of reunite because there’s a little turmoil off the top of the film. And I like that moment because it’s both of our characters realizing that we have to do something about this. And we do, and that’s a great moment for me.
What’s the one scene in “House of Wax” that you felt needed to be in there because of the type of horror movie it is?
JOEL SILVER: It’s not that simplistic. The truly remarkable scenes… I mean, the end of the movie in the House of Wax is pretty fantastic. But there are scenes earlier in the picture. There’s a scene where this guy Super Glues her lips together, which is pretty outrageous. There’s pretty wild things that happen that are due directly with the House of Wax. “I’ve never seen that before,” you say.
ELISHA CUTHBERT: I was getting good at the sign language. There [were] moments in between where we had to keep rolling because they were actually glued together, and I couldn’t speak. I remember talking to the A.D. going
They really glued your lips together?
ELISHA CUTHBERT: Yeah. Well, not real Crazy Glue but you had to. I wanted them to glue them because at first we had this sort of ‘mock’ and I was going to act like they were glued. I said, “Let’s just do something with it.” I said to the special effects guy, “Is there any way we can seal them because I want to actually pull them and make it show that I’m trying my best to unlock them?” So we did it, and it’s wild. It looked good – it looked really good.
