Nick Castle puts the mask once more like Michael Myers

But the retirement age can not contain the original Michael: Castle, now 71, puts on the mask again in the new "Halloween" (in theaters October 19). Director David Gordon Green's sequel, which dates back forty years after Carpenter's original film (and ignores the middle episodes), sends Myers into a new series of murders in the suburbs, though former babysitter Laurie Strode (Curtis) is preparing for his return.

While actor / stuntman James Jude Courtney is now the protagonist of the mask, managing the physical rigors of the role, Castle embodies "The Shape" (how Michael was featured in the 1978 film's credits) in a crucial scene where Laurie finally sees him. in a window on the floor, on the lookout. She casts the window out the window, but it turns out that she just saw her reflection in a mirror that breaks.

"I think all the connotations are there," said Castle, who "kissed Curtis" when he saw himself on the South Carolina plateau. She said, "Is this crazy or what ?! "So it was a little what we feel: what does it do, it starts over 40 years later?"

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Castle remembers very well "that there was absolutely no foresight or preparation" for playing Michael in the original movie. "It was John walking me saying," Walk here, walk there, bow your head. "

Carpenter insists that he had a reasoning: "The problem with Nick was that his father was a choreographer and Nick has that kind of grace in him. I can not explain it, but it has a unique walk. I asked him because I thought, "Well, that would take a little bit of knowing who this masked man is?"

Comparing Castle's Michael to Courtney's 2018 version, "I was more like a panther and more like a lion," says Castle, who also breathed a lot into Green's "Halloween" post-production. Courtney is a bigger guy – he's 6 feet 3 feet, Castle is 5 feet 11 feet – and "really did a good job. It's a brutal Michael. "