“I have to say a little bit satisfying to be recognized for some of the theater work I was doing in Vegas,” he said. Then the DJ came over and asked him whether he was the director at The Public Fit Theater Company. A guest came up to him and recognized him from C&C. Three years ago, he was at his brother’s wedding. “That’s why I try and keep it very low,” Kucan said. And that was probably a good thing, Kucan said, as it probably wouldn’t be fun to get a lot of hate messages on the internet from game fans. Kucan’s time as the world’s most despised villain ended before the onset of social media like Twitter and Facebook. “What does an audience look like? How do we do social distancing? This has been my main occupation.” “We’re going to have to redefine not just how we rehearse and produce but how we actually present plays,” he said. He had been doing that for about a decade when it “came to a grinding halt because of the coronavirus.” In 2000, Sperry said Westwood couldn’t make a C&C without Kucan.īut after his work as Kane ended, Kucan returned to running A Public Fit Community Theater in Las Vegas. Each installment of C&C made money, but Kucan didn’t get royalties from the games, but he was always happy to be employed as an actor and dramatic director. Kucan asked if I would lobby EA management to shoot more scenes with Kane, as he needed the money.īut playing Kane wasn’t like a big Hollywood role back in the day. “I always think of Kane as being around us, like the Force,” Kucan said. Kucan told me he starred in 97 games based on C&C, and then I realized he was using that dry humor on me, adding that he had no idea how many games and expansion packs came out over the past 25 years. And I can I guarantee you that was the best possible contribution.” Dry humor Dean, my contribution was to not get in the way. “My contribution was really digging around under the bed and one of my guest bedrooms and pulling out some old beta max tapes and CDs that had some B-roll footage,” Kucan said. It’s a remaster of the real-time strategy games that pitted the Brotherhood of Nod against the Global Defense Initiative. In the remaster, EA is reusing footage, and it has done its best to clean it up. But sadly, Kucan said in our interview that all of the original high-resolution footage was lost in the transition when Electronic Arts bought Westwood Studios in 1998 and then shut down it down 2003. In the next interview about the game, EA pitched me an interview with the legendary Kane.įor the new game, Kucan filmed a short video reaching out to fans. When EA announced that it was bringing back Command & Conquer, I asked if Kucan was going to be back.
Sperry urged him to shoot villain scenes as a promo for a game, and Kucan went along. He shaved his head, and it became his signature look.
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