Carrie Ann Fleming – Exclusive Interview

A seemingly pleasant and peaceful country bed and breakfast holds a gruesome and horrifying past waiting to resurface. Twelve year old Pamela Wagner (Nicole Muñoz) and her mother (Chandra West) visit the Hammond House to spend a peaceful weekend with Peter (Lochlyn Munro), the hard-working owner. Pamela is instantly befriended by a strange little girl from next door named Emma who bears a haunting message.

While interviewing Carrie Ann Fleming for The Masters of Horror (she appears in the upcoming Dario Argento episode, Jenifer), we couldn’t resist getting a (sound)bite or two on her next horror movie, The Tooth Fairy, due out in 2006.

Proceed with caution… there are a few spoilers!

Staci Layne Wilson/Horror.com: Who do you play in The Tooth Fairy?

Carrie Ann Fleming: I play Star Roberts.  She’s an ex exotic dancer who comes to the bed and breakfast so she can stay in town and become a veterinarian.

Q: Does she meet up with the evil Tooth Fairy?

Carrie Ann Fleming: Yeah! And she is one of the people who helps save the day. It’s one of those roles where the female didn’t die. I thought for sure she died [as I was reading the script].

Q: Yeah, it kind of sounds like the usual set up. Strippers always die!

Carrie Ann Fleming: Yeah, it totally does. Some of the writers were on set and they were like, “You’d be great for part two.”

Q: I understand that there’s a big fire scene toward the end. Were you a part of that?

Carrie Ann Fleming: No. I’m the scene just before that so I was there during the day and I was just coming down after, I was actually showering off all the blood while they were doing that fire scene.

Q: Who were most of your scenes with in that movie?

Carrie Ann Fleming: Everybody. I had some scenes with Lochlyn. I was kind of sprinkled throughout. I was the redeeming character in the film, is what the producers told me.

Q: So what was it like to work with Lochyln and Chandra?

Carrie Ann Fleming: They’re real pros. Lochlyn, he could have directed the whole thing himself [laughing]. But Chuck Bowman is a great director. The set was really comfortable. Chandra and Lochlyn are really professional.

When I was first starting out in Vancouver I did extra work on a Chuck Bowman film that Chandra was on, and also extra work on a Lochlyn film that Chuck was directing. I just thought “cool” because I remembered being on set working on both those shows, “I really hope that I can be in a movie one day [acting with them].” The next thing I know I’m sitting in a chair next to Chandra and had that story to tell her. I really like her a lot.

Q: When I talked to Chandra and Lochlyn, I was trying to get a feel for it — I haven’t seen a trailer or anything — I understand that they’re sort of aiming toward maybe the teenage audience. Do you think it’s like more of a horror movie for younger people?

Carrie Ann Fleming: We were sitting around at a dinner scene and this kid, Jesse Hutch was in it. Lochlyn was gorgeous, and Chandra was beautiful, and I had big blonde curls and we were like a family. I know I would like it. It’s going to be one of those tongue-in-cheek kind of funny horror films that you just really enjoy the ride. I don’t think it will take too much intelligence to get through it, so it can be for young and for older people.

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