Postal is now playing at the Roxie — and will be there until Wed, June 11. It hasn’t exactly been taking the critical world by storm, but I enjoyed it, more or less. Still deciding? Read on for part two of my interview with director Uwe Boll and cast members Zach Ward and Larry Thomas.
San Francisco Bay Guardian: Do you think the fact that Postal makes light of terrorists and 9/11 will be a turn-off for audiences who would otherwise be into watching an over-the-top comedy?
Zach Ward: Why? I mean, why would you not make fun of terrorists? That’s like saying you can’t make fun of Nazis, or drug dealers. They’re douchebags. Terrorists are douchebags. Are you gonna sit underneath your chair and be worried about their opinion of you? I’ve been told that other actors turned [my] part down because they were scared of the controversy. If I’m gonna live my life in fear, I’m not living my life. If you’re gonna let a person in a foreign land with their own sets of values decide what you do on a daily basis, you might as well move there. South Park did this too — the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Get off your fat fuckin’ ass and stand for something. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be the home of the free and then turn around and say, “Oh, we can’t do the Mohammed joke, because then the Islamic fundamentalists will be upset.” Well, fuck yourself. If you’re an Islamic fundamentalist, you’re not supposed to be watching fuckin’ TV in the first place, so you can kiss my rosy red freckled ass. And if I’m supposed to sit here and apologize to you, you need to be in my house. This is my country. I’m not gonna kowtow to another opinion. This is where the government is supposed to be afraid of us, we’re not supposed to be afraid of the government. We’re supposed to stand up and create this country around our ideals, not by what Viacom thinks. Not by integrated vertical corporate fuckin’ structure. No, that’s ridiculous. And the fact that we’ve gotten to the point where we have to defend that? That’s what made America great.