{"id":460,"date":"2008-04-13T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/13\/interview-sheri-wiggins\/"},"modified":"2008-04-13T17:02:53","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T07:02:53","slug":"interview-sheri-wiggins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/13\/interview-sheri-wiggins\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Sheri Wiggins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wawa-with-tail-reversed-web.jpg\" title=\"Wawa poster\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wawa-with-tail-reversed-web.jpg\" alt=\"Wawa poster\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Birth of a Legend: The Story of the WAWA<\/strong> (US-2008, directed by Steve Wiggins)<\/p>\n<p>Sweet Tee, Alabama, has a problem; a big, wormy, carnivorous mutation that comes out of the polluted lake to chew up the residents and generally cause trouble for everyone. Everyone except Sheri Wiggins, that is, who with her husband, director Steve Wiggins, is responsible for exposing the horror to the world.<\/p>\n<p>Kaiju Search-Robot Avery asked Sheri about their new movie and how it came about.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>Birth of a Legend: The Story of the WAWA<\/em> is a funny little film that pokes fun at good ole boys, the deep south and all that it represents. We not only poke fun at authority and the creature genre in and of itself &#8230; but we give it to clich\u00e9s in general. We put political correctness out there for everyone to see just how insane it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe there will always be a place for downright good old monster movies &#8230; whether they scare the begeeze out of you &#8230; or whether they do send ups of the old &#8220;B&#8217; movies of the 50s and 60s. There are always new ways to re-invent the good old man-eating monster.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each and every character in <em>Birth of a Legend: The Story of the WAWA<\/em> was fashioned after someone from our quad city area, Florence, Muscle Shoals, Tuscumbia and good old Sheffield, Alabama. Even the names are similar to some of our most infamous\/famous town folk.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roberthood.net\/reviews\/interview-wawa.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birth of a Legend: The Story of the WAWA (US-2008, directed by Steve Wiggins) Sweet Tee, Alabama, has a problem; a big, wormy, carnivorous mutation that comes out of the polluted lake to chew up the residents and generally cause &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/13\/interview-sheri-wiggins\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,44,18,59,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}