Patrick Fabian And Ashley Bell Talk THE LAST EXORCISM

Next week horror picture produced The last Exorcism by stamm`s Eli Roth coming to theatres. Earlier this week i had the chance to sit as part of a round table with stars Ashley Bell and Patrick Fabian to talk about the film and their experiences making it. The complete transcript you'll find of that conversation below. (To Ashley) It's funny, you were born and raised in Hollywood, always around the industry, and here you are playing this hick. This girl who has never really been off the farm. It must be great to be an actor and live all these different lives. Ashley: It is. It is so much fun. And I probably shouldn't say that for this heinously violent character that I play but it was so much fun. The process of preparing for Nell and figuring out what she hasn't been exposed to because she's never left, she's never really needed to. And then trying to figure out, when she's either possessed or in an episode, how to play that ... Daniel actually gave me a huge hint in how to play that, to try to maintain the possibility that she's not possessed, that it's mental illness. So I started researching different illnesses and hysterias, post traumatic stress disorders, certain manias, stuff like that. I got to pull from my teenage years! Did either of you research real life exorcisms? Ashley: Yeah, we actually both did. Patrick: We went to a Pentecostal church in Los Angeles, just outside of Hollywood. I looked it up. I thought we were going to have to drive way deep into the Inland Empire, maybe into Nevada, but no. Ten minutes on Hollywood Boulevard. Out on sixth street there was this little Pentecostal church and that was one of seventeen we could have chosen from. It's right there in Los Angeles. Hellfire and brimstone and wiping the brow and they've got the bass player and the drummer and they're singing to Jesus and they're the friendliest bunch of people you ever want to meet. "Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! Welcome!" So much so that as we were leaving, as things were ending, we left the church and all of a sudden someone came after saying "Where are you going? The pastor wants to see you!" "Uh, no, we're good, thank you very much." "No, the pastor asked specifically to see you." And we both were locked in with that sense of having had an authority figure who said stay, more importantly the pastor is talking to us and then your ego kicks in and I felt that pull of wanting to go back in and, of course, eventually give them money. You know that's part of where that was going. Or they just wanted to bring us into the congregation. I just looked at Ashley like, "What do we do?" Did they know why you were there? Patrick: No, no, not at all. In my mind they just saw fresh meat. They saw potential converts. And I don't mean that in a negative way, they just felt like, "Who are you people? Did Jesus bring you here today? It's our obligation to help bring you in." That's the way I took it. It was very powerful.