MOVIES
From Issue #20
Liam Aiken
No Unfortunate Incidents
by Laura Ashton
Liam Aiken has starred with some great
names in Hollywood, including Julia Roberts
and Susan Sarandon in Stepmom and
Tom Hanks in Road to Perdition. He plays
the orphan, Klaus Baudelaire in Lemony
Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events.
How was it working with Meryl Streep and
Jim Carrey in Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events?
It was interesting, and really fun. The other actors were really great and supportive. They allowed you to
give your own interpretations of the scene and were generous with their time and efforts.
How was it working with Jim Carrey? Was it hard to keep a straight face? It’s said that he’s notorious
for improvisation.
(Laughs) Yeah, Jim was really fun to work with. He improvises a lot. But it wasn’t hard to keep the scene
in the direction that it was supposed to go. He would start out where the director wanted and end where
the director wanted. Everything else was all his. You’d kinda get lost in the middle and then you’d be like,
Oh Ok!
What was it like to work with the special effects for the film?
You’d be surprised how few special effects were actually in it. They had several complete 360-degree
sets that were fully functional. Like Aunt Josephine’s house was a complete set, and when it was
supposed to fall apart, the whole thing jerked around because they had it on hydraulics.
Photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures
