HORROR VEIN

Mary Elizabeth Winstead Hypes “Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”

Published on October 23, 2011

With “The Thing” currently in theaters and the adaptation of the immensely popular Seth Grahame-Smith book “Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” currently shooting, Mary Elizabeth Winstead has a lot on her plate, and a majority of it – lucky for us! – is genre work!

Here’s what she had to say about what she knows of the film thus far, and how she approached her role of Mary Todd Lincoln.

“I haven’t seen any [footage], but I know they’ve been editing and I know that they’re really excited about it. I know there’s going to be a trailer out in like February, or something, so I’m really excited about that. But I wasn’t a part of most of the action stuff in that movie, which I liked that, because I kind of needed a little bit of a break [laughs]. So I’m going to be like an audience member when it comes to that stuff, because I have no idea.”

On Mary Todd Lincoln:

“So I didn’t play her like a crazy person, which is what people keep asking me…But definitely a feisty young woman, and I get to turn into this older, very strong, powerful woman who’s helping her husband fight the war against slavery – and vampires!”

Sounds cool! Winstead herself has been a very promising mainstay in the horror genre, having starred prominently in “Final Destination 3”, “Black Christmas”, “Grindhouse” and “The Ring Two”, not to mention being a complete bad-ass as Bruce Willis’ daughter in “Live Free or Die Hard” and “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World”. It’s great to have such a devoted – and lovely – young woman championing the horror genre, and I’d “stake” my life (sorry) that she’s well on her way to being our generation’s new Jamie Lee Curtis or Sigourney Weaver.