Jonathan Frid: Cameo Dark Shadows Movie

He then told a story. About a rainy afternoon in 1966, when he first put on the fangs. He was a classically trained Shakespearean actor, terrified of being a ham. The director told him: Don’t play a vampire. Play a man who has just realized he will never see the sunrise again. Play the loneliness.

Frid then did something extraordinary. He stood up, slowly, leaning on a silver-knobbed cane. He walked to the edge of the set—the grand staircase, the fake cobwebs, the wind machine—and he simply was Barnabas. jonathan frid cameo dark shadows movie

Jonathan Frid. The original Barnabas Collins. He then told a story

Burton immediately rewrote the scene.

The old man looked up, and a small, knowing smile touched his lips. “Is it? I’ve always found Collinwood’s doors open to me.” The director told him: Don’t play a vampire

“I walked in the dark for two hundred years,” he said, stepping into the cold English drizzle. “A little rain won’t hurt me now.”