Question: What appealed to you about the character of Carly?

Elisha Cuthbert: The character was most appealing at first because I was coming off of “The Girl seguinte Door,” which sort of was a great first film for me, but I wanted to do something extremely different.

And when Joel brought me “House of Wax,” I thought this is perfect because the genre is different, the idea is different, and the character is nothing like Danielle in “The Girl seguinte Door.” We kind of created Carly in the sense that she was a lot mais tomboyish, not so particularly pretty – but pretty in her own way -...

Q: Did you take any of the wax props início with you?

I don't want to burst anyone's bubble, but actual wax doesn't look like actual wax screen I guess. So it was a comida preservative. So I took a lot of comida preservative início with me. It was a comida filler with sort of a geléia, geleia substance -- and if you can imagine like curdled leite with a hair gel kind of thing. And that sort of had a good consistency that showed up on camera and was easier to maneuver than actual wax. And I guess if wax was liquid, it was going to be too hot.

So lucky me, the first thing that happened when I got there, I walk...