There was a lot of safety behind me, mattresses and gentlemen who specialized in stunts. I’m terrible! I know I’m terrible! So there were scenes like that, and a scene where I fall down the stairs. RV: Justin Bieber should’ve been in there instead of the egg. SC: Oh yes, that scene where he grabs your hand and crushes the egg was certainly one of the most disturbing in the film. That frightened me, it really frightened me. Especially when I did that scene with Andrew Jacobs where he grabs my arm. When I was doing the scenes for Paranormal I always felt the back of my hair pulling a little bit. It makes you pause and think, “Uh oh, maybe we’re pushing this a little much”. During rehearsals our director broke her thumb, somebody’s car was broken into, and I was assaulted getting out of my car when I got home. I did a play called “Dark of the Moon” it had to do with witches and the occult and believing in the evil eye and that sort of thing. You have to admit at some point in your life that there is another existence around us, maybe not in flesh and blood, but there is something else. RV: That was actually quite… well, it got emotional. SC: While you do have some very comedic scenes at the beginning of the film, in the middle you had some very intense scenes where you are trying to exorcize the spirit from Jesse. Also being able to switch from one to the other quickly and still make sense and have the ability to speak Spanish in such a way that it left no wonder to the non-Spanish speaking audience. That was part of the audition that I did. RV: For me? I think everything I said was improvised. SC: How many of your scenes were scripted vs. I totally supported that and I was very happy that they made that choice. As far as having 1, 2, 3, 4, and then, bingo, here’s the switch. I think that was a very smart move and a very important one. I think it was discovered that nobody spends as much money at the horror box office as the Latino patrons, so they chose to do a movie that involved the Latino culture. RV: That was Paramount’s point, as I understood. SC: Speaking of the Latin culture, we don’t usually see that side of America is most horror films. For me that was my favorite and it was definitely a lot of fun. They cook together, they share, they serve, they party, and that scene symbolized that tradition and part of that culture very pointedly. That’s where most of the gatherings take place in most homes, but particularly in Latin homes people gather around the kitchen. RV: Well those were my favorite scenes, as far as the ones that I was involved in, because that symbolized the closeness that I had with my grandson and his little friend, and how it revealed that we got together often to have a good time in the kitchen. SC: In the film you drink tequila shots and dance, and it looks like your having a lot of fun. So yes, Paranormal Activity would be the first. So while it was a horror film, I did deal with the occult. In that film I deal with the occult, because I played a Salvadoran mother who believes in that white magic. While I was doing Weeds, I did an independent film called Hollywood Familia. Scene Creek: You do a lot of comedy, not only in this film but also in Weeds, House of Payne, and many others. We got to chat with Renee about the making of the film, and her superstitions towards working with the occult.
She most recently appears in the fifth Paranormal Activity film, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones. Veteran actress Renee Victor has been around for quite some time, working with everyone from Tyler Perry to Robert Duvall.
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