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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What is your history withBig Trouble in Little China?
TARA BENNETT:I saw this movie with my mom when it came out on home video.
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He rented it and and we watched it on a loop.
Its so surreal, 30 years on, for us to be involved with this book.
How did you go about securing materials and interviews?
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TB:We had to go out and find everybody.
We did a deep dive into things that had never seen the light of day.
We dont skim through anything.
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We check that we really deep dive.
Weve gone pretty crazy with the deep-diving.
But its been so fun because we love the movie.
Maybe you’re able to write a making-of book forEscape From L.A.in five years time.
PT:Oh, man, he is the master.
He really can hop from terrifying horror to something likeBig Troubleto something likeStar Man.
We had such a good time diving into the archives of this.
We would do another John Carpenter movie in a blink.
