The Darkness Within Premiers in Boston tomorrow night and today we have one of the most interesting cats I know attached to this project. To say ken is unique is an understatement and after reading this interview you will know what I mean. He is a great guy and gives great performance in The Darkness Within and also in another flick from Door Eleven Productions, Duality.

TMW - You have worked with Dom before and as a matter of fact you are the man that introduced Dom and I. For the readers at home let’s get your side of that story.

KF - I was stumbling around the internet, like the cyber hobo that I am and found the “Rusty Lime” website which had an article by you titled “B Movie Whore” and really liked that so I contacted them to see if they’d be interested in checking out our first release “Duality”. Michael Ott; he of “Rusty Lime” fame, wrote back and let me know it was you sir who wrote that article and that he would gladly pass on my email and well… here we are today. You graciously tortured yourself with “Duality” and are now faced with wasting another 90 minutes of your life watching “The Darkness Within” from which you will cull nothing but more vengeful hatred of Dom, myself and the rest of Door Eleven’s creative militia.

TMW – It was much better than you make out. I actually enjoyed the flick that you sir starred in. But back to the current film, when Dom came to you with The Darkness Within what was your first reaction to hearing about the project?’

KF - Well to be honest; Dom said; “I have a new script, I wrote this character for you; fuck off about thinking you won’t do it, I’ll kill your puppy.” He then handed me a Jemokah’s Witness pamphlet; backed away slowly, never breaking eye contact and then fled.

Which was odd because I’d completely forgotten who this Dom kid was and I didn’t have a puppy. So; I read the script; only while on the toilet because you never know when the toilet paper will run out and it was about 100 pages so I knew I’d be covered every time I went in to the bathroom. I must say it was a good read; much more so than that pamphlet.

TMW - Your character gets accused of being a peeping Tom, when was the last time you were arrested for have you ever been caught peeping into a window you should not have been?

KF - Nah, not my thing. I much prefer to be watched.

TMW – What is your role in this thing?

KF - My role in the movie; well if Mr. Rogers and Frank Booth had a threesome with 80′s porn star Candy Evans and Frank Booth got pregnant. Mr. Reed would be that child. Frank Booth. Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet; anyone… hello? A little help here. Fuck; what do you people do with your lives? Blue Fucking Velvet! HELLO! NO, it’s not the sequel to National Velvet! FUCK!

My role within Door Eleven Productions is to keep Dom’s massive fucking ego fed. Dom loves (as we like to say on set) the verbal salad toss or a verbal suck off. Can’t hear enough nice things about his hair. That’s Dom, that’s why my role with Door Eleven. Oh yeah, he’s worse than Xerxes ever was. Kids. Xerxes, the big gold dude in “300″… fucking hell… XERXES!!! ok, this sucks… I’m tossing GOLD out there and nobody is getting any of this! FUCK!

My role on this planet is simple. Never disappoint my mother. She’s 78, she’s Sicilian, ’nuff said.

TMW - So with this over blown ego does it make it difficult to work with Dom or you just giving shit to one of your boys?

KF - I’m just giving him shit; in all honesty, Dom is the only reason I bother with doing any acting anymore. Dom is very easy to work with; he has a plan, knows what he wants and needs for the scene we happen to be getting that day and as far as I can tell, he’s editing it in his giant melon (not an insult, just a physiological fact; his hat size has got to be an as we are shooting and that is really amazing to see. All we really have to do is show up ready to go. If Jimmy and I had to worry about how Dom is going to get both our noses in the shot, it would debilitating but we know he has us covered and Jimmy and I do our Toucan thing and it’s all good.

I’m very lucky to have hooked on with Door Eleven, it’s like having a bunch of little brothers and sisters. Just good people.

TMW - You know I love this kid and have been giving him some help here and there behind t

he scenes. You say he and Door Eleven are the reason you keep acting how did you meet him in the first place?

KF - Let’s see, back before “Duality” I was stumbling around Myspace (remember that?) and found an audition announcement for that movie; seems they were holding auditions for the “lead male” or something like that for their movie and it was right there in my hometown. Now, that seems simple enough; here is where it gets interesting/odd/funny whatever. The guy who posted the announcement was the guy who played Gage in “Duality”, Anthony Cogliandro. His profile picture at the time was him Shirtless and wearing sunglasses. Right? You see? O.K.

I mean, NO WAY right? You figure he’s just trawling for rough tricks or some such right?

Well I did respond and Dom wrote me back and sent me the script and I showed up and before I entered the place there was a sign outside that said “Leave your ego at the door”. Which to me was perfect. I knew then I had made the right decision.

Guess who greeted me as I walked in. Anthony; with a shirt and tie on; it was very comforting. Odd he didn’t have pants on. I never asked why and everyone pretended not to notice, so who am I to judge?

TMW – When looking at the work you have done with Door Eleven Productions how would you say the crew has progressed going into this film?

KF - Oh there is no question we work much more efficiently than we did last time. Both on and off set; I think you’ll see the differences. As you can imagine the difference of where you start and finish with a story is very different depending on how much time you take to tell it. With “Duality” we took a long time and it’s a bit uneven and I believe that’s because you can see the difference between what was shot early in that process and what was shot later and all those scenes lined up (you just don’t shoot a story in a linear fashion) you can see the difference in quality. At least I can; and being so close to it; after the thrill of seeing the story in one sitting the first couple times you start to pick it a part to try and make the next thing better.

And just the fact that Rohn doesn’t have any lines to forget this time saved us about 3 months of production time. He was on set everyday doing sound or lighting or fluffing; whatever was needed. He worked hard and I/we are very grateful for his efforts, especially since I’m hung like a button mushroom and all.

TMW - Now that we know way too much about your button mushroom than we ever wanted to we are going to move on to the closing of this interview with one of my favorite questions. I am The Movie Whore for all the bad film I will sit through to find that one rare gem and along the way I have become very fond of some truly horrific films that I should be ashamed to like. You know the film equivalent of saying you like “Ice Ice Baby.” Give me a film or films that you normally would shy away from telling the world you actually like. You know those dirty little secrets, oh and Ken, porn titles don’t count.

KF - The Crow 2, you can’t go wrong with Iggy Pop, Billy Jack, an ass kicker in lots of kick ass denimTommy, it looked it was shot in a community access television studio and I watch it every time it’s on.

TMW - Interesting picks to say the least. Is there anything else you want to tell all the people out there?

KF - Sure man; call someone you haven’t called in a long time, don’t just accept that the National League doesn’t have a designated hitter, learn something about something you don’t believe in, call the White House and tell whoever answers “It’s ideas not Ideology!” then hang up, don’t always talk to the pretty girl, don’t always notice the flashy car, give all your shit away, tell yourself once in a while “I don’t need that”, read the fine print or it is your fault if you have an uncontrollable oily discharge after eating this product, call your mother, never truly try and rule the world; but truly try and think about what it would be like when you have a minute, check your fly it may be down, call your mother; she may be the same person I first urged you to call above, give a fuck about something your apathy is actually getting boring, self doubt can be very funny, sitcoms rarely are, REO Speedwagon’s music is something you should be ashamed of listening to; so turn it down but keep on listening because nobody should tell you what to listen to, are you still reading this?, do not taunt the small bookcase, are you really in love or just afraid to be alone?, men should not smell prettier than their women, get a god damn haircut or don’t; but stop complaining about your hair, Bruce Springsteen is not a better songwriter than Leonard Cohen he’s just phony Rock Whore billionaire of the people, take a nap it’s good for you, don’t just accept what they tell you; find out for yourself, it’s your round, monkey hips infuriate me, baby wipes keep grownups from potentially embarrassing encounters; get on that bandwagon fast, let’s talk soon.

Believe it or not this is what it is like to talk to Ken at given time, but you never see him on screen. When you watch Duality and The Darkness Within you will see a professional and you will see the character he portaying but you will never see the actor. A talented man working with a talented crew.

If you in the Boston Area and are going to miss the sold out premier tomorrow night don’t worry there are additional shows you can find here.