By Daniel Robert Epstein

In See No Evil, Kane is the epitome of terror as Jacob Goodnight. He is alone with his thoughts at an abandoned hotel until eight petty criminals show up for community service duty along with the cop who put a bullet in Jacob' s head four years ago.

Really Scary: We' re doing this interview at the New York Comicon. Are you a big comic book fan?

Kane: I used to be, back when I was in college. Not so much anymore, but when I was in college, I started collecting The X-Men and Thor. I always liked Thor. By the time I got out of college I had a subscription to almost all of the Marvel Comics.

RS: Was the role in See No Evil always meant for you?

Kane: To my knowledge it was.

RS: What surprised you most about movie making?

Kane: Although I was prepared for it, it was the “Hurry up and wait.”  Because of the camera angles we had to wait three hours while they set up the lighting and the cameras. That was surprising.

RS: How much input did you have into the character?

Kane: I had a little bit. The neat thing about our company is that we always have input about performance. That' s because we' re the people that in the end have to make it work and it' s the same in the movie. Our producer was very open to suggestions and making certain things work.  

One thing I have to do is thank Gregory Dark and Ben Nott the director of photography. I' m not familiar with movies and they were certainly able to coach me through all the stuff I have to do.

RS: Right, you can' t be as broad as in a movie as you are in a wrestling ring.  

Kane: Exactly. On TV and at the live events that we do, I' m trying to project out to the last seat in Madison Square Garden. It' s completely different with a movie.  Gregory said, “You' re not talking to that guy anymore; you' re talking to the guy sitting right in front of you.” I have to really thank them for helping coach me through that particular aspect of this.

I was given some pretty wide boundaries with how to portray the character and how to do it. We all got along really well. I wouldn' t necessarily say that I was told what to do, but that we came to a general consensus as to what was best.

RS: A big thing in wrestling for you is fire. Was there a lot of fire work in See No Evil?  

Kane: No, not really. The character in the movie is similar to the character on TV but they' re not the same.

RS: Your main weapon in the movie is a hook on a metal chain. How was it training with that thing? 

Kane: It was different. Originally there were parts that they were going to do with CGI. Then we went out and did it and it looked so good we didn' t have to use CGI. That was really cool.

RS: Are you a big fan of Gregory Dark' s other movies?

Kane: [laughs] The Disney ones.

RS: Was Vince McMahon on set at all?

Kane: No because we filmed in Australia. He was pretty involved though. He saw all the dailies and kept very close abreast of what was going on.

RS: Would you like for See No Evil become a franchise?

Kane: Oh yeah. I would love for that to happen.

RS: Obviously your training is to knock around men almost as big as yourself. One bump into some of these people you worked with in See No Evil could send them sailing through a wall. 

Kane: That' s true but they' re tougher than they look. There was one day when one of the girls got slammed pretty good. Everybody was just standing there with their jaws dropped down to the floor. Then she comes walking by and they' re just looking at me and looking at her and she said “That was great.”

RS: Is The Rock the gold standard for what you guys want to do?

Kane: No, everybody pursues their own career path. Rock' s a great guy and I' m glad that he' s had the success that he' s had but that' s what he wants to do.  I hope See No Evil is very successful but I will probably never consider myself a movie star. Not to say that I wouldn' t want to do more movies. But that' s not what we' re all aspiring to do.  We' re entertainers and we entertain in whatever medium. But the thing I' m best at is wrestling.

RS: I' ve spoken to pro wrestlers who play bad guys and usually they are movie buffs. How about you?

Kane: I am because a good movie' s a good story and that' s the same with wrestling. A good wrestling match is a good story. We' re storytellers, so that' s why we' re movie buffs. We' re just looking for a good story in whatever medium.                        

RS: Are you going to be wrestling less because of movie work? 

Kane: I don' t know, but we' ll have to do some promotion for the movie.

RS: Do you want to keep doing more movies?

Kane: Sure, if the opportunity presents itself. I liked making the movie. I thought it was very enjoyable and I was blown away by the finished product especially because of the amount of work that had gone into it. It was a big difference between what I do normally. As a wrestler I pretty much get instant gratification because we interact with our fans at the live events. Right away you know if you' ve done something wrong or right. I had to wait over a year to see the finished movie and I was so glad that it was everything I had hoped it would be. Not only on my part but with everybody involved in it. It all came together to this masterpiece.