Zach Lipovsky Discusses “Leprechaun: Origins” and Hornswaggle

Zach Lipovsky spoke with Crave Online recently about directing the WWE Studios-produced Leprechaun: Origins. The film stars WWE Superstar Hornswaggle and is due out in 2014. Here are some pieces of the interview:

Regarding how long it took to get the star ready to portray a leprechaun:

“Each day it took about two hours, and then he’d basically be in it and wouldn’t really be able to take it off. We would take it off for lunch but then it would mean we wouldn’t be able to film with him for another two hours. It was pretty intense for him. We were shooting in the middle of the summer so he was a trooper.”

On how Hornswaggle balanced traveling with the WWE roster and filming:

“Pretty good. WWE Studios works obviously very closely with WWE on the entertainment side so they flew him out back and forth for the times when we needed him and then all the way through production he was there. Those guys travel so much, it’s kind of insane. I think he lives in Wisconsin. He’s on the road in a different city five days a week and flies home again for two days, and then flies back. They’re all over the world all the time. I think spending three weeks in one space was probably unusual for him.”

Why the movie is intended for adults only:

“It comes out definitely in the kills. There’s pretty insane stuff there and just as far as the tone. It’s made for adults. It’s not made for kids. It’s not a total torture porn gore fest either.”

Lipovsky previously gained notoriety after he competed on the Fox reality show, On the Lot. The entire interview can be found here.

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