He’s already in the GFFA as the voice of Ren in LEGO Star Wars: Terrifying Tales three decades after his first Lucasfilm turn as Preston Tucker Jr. in Tucker: The Man and His Dream, and now Christian Slater joins the world of Willow as Allagash, and on the official Lucasfilm website he’s interviewed about the role and how it came his way.
“Jon Kasdan called me and we had several Zoom conversations like this,” Slater says, referencing this call with Lucasfilm.com. “We talked about the background and what kind of character we wanted him to be. He was open to a lot of ideas, a lot of suggestions, and a lot of wild and crazy things.” In Slater’s mind, Allagash’s predicament fed into his character as much as what was known about his friend, Madmartigan. “Allagash is a guy who’s been trapped in this cage for 10 years. He’s gotta find all kinds of different ways to entertain himself. I felt like he would be somebody a little bit off-kilter and certainly a little bit bizarre. He’s had a lot of time to himself,” Slater adds with a chuckle. “He’s probably lost his mind a little bit, which I felt was appropriate for the Willow universe and also somebody who would’ve been a good friend of Madmartigan. He was a bit of a goof, which I really loved, and I figured the types of people Madmartigan would’ve surrounded himself with would’ve been rather goofy and fun, as well, and a little out of their minds already.”
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