Oh hey, it’s Christopher Lee’s 100th Birthday! To combine it with Dracula Day (which was
Oh hey, it’s Christopher Lee’s 100th Birthday! To combine it with Dracula Day (which was yesterday on the 26th May), one of Lee’s most famous roles was as the emponious Count in the films made by the British Hammer Film Productions. However, overtime Lee came to dislike the films as he felt they were subpar, and was growing wary of getting typecast.This led to him attempting to decline further appearances as the infamous vampire, only for studio executives to essentially resort to emotional blackmail to get him to keep appearing in their films. Saying that as Lee was the main draw to their films, if he were to quit then that would put all of the production crew out of work in response, effectively placing the financial livelihoods of his colleagues in his hands.The result of this was Lee agreeing continue as Dracula, at least for another film or two. One of which, 1966′s Dracula: Prince of Darkness, having such terrible dialogue that Lee just straight refused to say any of it, making it one of the few film depictions of Dracula who just snarls and hisses through the movie father than actually saying anything. -- source link
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