A Second Chance at Getting Silent Hill's Opening Sequence Just Right: “We never reshot anything but the opening sequence in the film. We came back after they’d finished shooting the film and shot that sequence.”
Asked why it needed to be shot after the main filming had wrapped, Mitchell explained, “Well, at the time, we just had to finish this film when we were shooting it. Then being able to edit it and then come back and shoot the beginning must be great for a director because you have a real sense of what the film looks like. You have a real sense of how you want to intro the film and you can be very specific about how you’re going to do that. That’s sort of what happened in the end. I think we came back for four days or a couple of days and shot the beginning of the film in that way. It was good for Christophe [Gans] because he knew exactly what he wanted.”
Radha Mitchell’s Take on the Finished Film: “What surprised me about it was that it was emotionally touching. I didn’t expect that at all. I thought it was going to be horrific and obviously scary and get you in that way. It does, but there’s a melancholy to it and a kind of sadness and a beauty to it that I was surprised by. I think that was something that we felt when we were shooting but I didn’t necessarily know that it would translate in the way that it did.”
Mitchell wouldn’t mind being involved in a Silent Hill sequel, should there be one. “Yeah. If they make it again, I want to come back as a creature,” laughed Mitchell.
Up Next – Rogue: “I can’t talk too much about it but it’s a story set in Australia directed by a guy called Greg McLean who directed a movie called Wolf Creek. It’s basically sort of a thriller about this crocodile that terrorizes a bunch of tourists.”
