Stone Cold

Lance played a character called 'Chains'.

"That's how i met my wife - she painted my motorcycle for that movie.  When we all got together I had developed a character i really wanted to play.  I wanted to play this guy in a certain way.  It had to do with an inner thing, not the externals.  It's a little bit like a cowboy.  You don't want to play a guy who's playing at being a cowboy, cowboys were actually people who had jobs, they did things.  I didn't want to play a biker, I wanted to be him.  And when I met the other actors that were gonna be in the movie, I looked at them and said 'Wait a minute.' I went to the producer and said, 'The wind is blowing through my bones, man. I don't think these guys could protect me from anything.'  I went around to the bike shops in Biloxi, Mississippi and on the Gulf Coast and over in Arkansas and I picked guys right out of Harley shops.  Some of 'em were in clubs, others were just  bikers that had lived that way all their lives.  And i pulled them into the movie - them and their bikes.  The other thing was the original writer of the script got fired a week into the movie and a new guy came on and i said to the guy the writer had written all biblical stuff, everything that Chains said was all biblical and i said to the guy, 'If i play him this way- i can't say this shit.  Thirty seconds after i open my mouth, the audience is not gonna listen or see anything that I do from that moment on,  'cause it's horseshit.'  So when the new director/writer came on and i hadn't shot yet i thought ' Well, i've gotta take the chance.  I'm either gonna be fired and replaced or its gonna happen.'  I said to him, 'Let me just improvise everything, let me just make it up as we go along, one scene at a time.'  And that's basically what we did. The content of the scene we made up, the structure was there and we had to shoot that,  for narrative, but that's it.  It was really fun.  It took four months to shoot that movie. "       Videoscope Winter 2002