Where the Wild Things Are Interviews: Max Records

Where the Wild Things Are - Max RecordWhere the Wild Things Are is a stunning vision of Maurice Sendak's children's novel. But how fully can you appreciate it on the big screen? We weren't sure, so we spoke to star Max Records to find out what it was like in person...


MV: You get to do a lot of running about and smashing things.  Do you have lots of fun on set doing that?

Max Records: Well there was a lot of smashing and crashing around for all who were involved. The environment on the set didn’t really feel like a workplace.  It felt like a bunch of people had got together to experiment with really really expensive equipment. We were beating the expensive equipment with sticks.

MV: Which was your favourite character?  And who was the scariest?

MR: My favourite is probably Douglas. He’s more steady and even headed, more so than the other. Scariest…probably the dragon from the book.

 

MV: What traits do you share with the Max in the movie?Where the Wild Things Are - Max

MR: Things we have in common…we’re about yay tall….similar complexion.  Ummm…me and my friends will take PVC piping, the big plastic pipes and mattress foam, wrap them around the PVC and duct tape it to make swords or something…

MV: Have you read Where the Wild Things Are? 

MR:  That book is kind of a staple in my family for young kids. My parents started reading it to me when I was super super young and as soon as I was learning to read I was reading it myself. 

MV: What effect did it have on you? How did it inspire you?

MR: I don’t know if it had an effect or anything as much as you know….when you’re that teeny you can’t really articulate things. 

MV: If you could be a wild thing for the day, what would you like to do?  If you could do anything for one day?

MR: Honestly, I’d be pretty psyched up to have Spiderman powers.  To be able to climb and the psow psow, web-sling thing.

MV: Are you a big comic fan than?

MR:  Yeah, but not really Spiderman or any of those.  I like Bone by Jeff Smith and then lot of Manga, so Osamu Tezuku (Astro Boy).  The kinds that I read are more like visual novels rather than superhero types.

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Want more? We also spoke to WTWTA producer Vincent Landay!

You can read out review of Where The Wild Things are HERE. For more interviews with filmmakers and actors have a look HERE