Propeller Guy

Mark:
Anyway, I picked myself up, and I thought to myself, you know, "This is fantastic. Like, I can look like I'm acting, but I can also make it look like I'm getting hurt at the same time."

Mark:
The what?

Mark:
There were no computer graphics.

Mark:
No. I did that myself.

Mark:
Well, I'm a specialist.

Mark:
This isn't comedy. I'm a method actor.

Mark:
But it's not just me in that scene. There's like, hundreds of other people, all drowning, and falling, and thrashing around and what not. And I mean each time one of them buggered it up, we had to do it all over again.

Mark:
Yes. Well I am quite macho. Actually I'm considered quite a... quite a sex symbol, if you will, back in my home town.

Mark:
Well, it was sorta funny, you know, because like, it was something I did as a funny bit, like a blooper, sort of an oot-take.

Robert Evans:
One scene I wrote for Space Truckers 2, ah, featured this character being jettisoned from an airlock, and then colliding with a propeller on the back on one of these big space trucks. And uh, when Mark got the script, he came to me and suggested the guy be on fire at first, and then explode when he hit the propeller, um, you know, because he's burning, and he's in space. And to me, as a director, ah, that sort of information is... invaluable.

Mark:
Now when people ask me what I do, I tell them, you know, "I'm an aerial propeller collision specialist."