What was the best part of filming The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2?

I'd have to say the money. I was making Screen Actors Guild minimum- about $1600 a week base pay, plus overtime, meal penalties, travel pay, per diem (daily meal money), forced calls, etc, and was averaging about $7000 a week all told! I'd been living in New York city writing freelance articles for magazines, making about $200 a week, and having all that money was a gas! I took my girlfriend to dinner in Austin one night at a fancy restaurant and blew $1400 on after-dinner drinks! she had two $200 glasses of aged sherry, and I had two $500 snifters of Napolean brandy, that after an expensive French meal. Money to burn. Boy, do I miss those days!

And the worst part?

The worst part was working day and night relentlessly. Because I was paid so little, Cannon Films constantly forced my call- that is, they didn't give me at least 12 hour turnaround from the time I finished work one day until the time I began the next. If you force someone to work w/ less than 12 hours turnaround, you have to pay them a full day's pay on top of their regular wage. Because I was only making approx. $250 a day, that was chickenfeed for Cannon, and they forced me almost every day! Good thing I had the youth and constitution to hold up like that for eight weeks running. Most of the cast got sick- walking pneumonia, etc.- from the long hours, the effects smoke on the set, and the air-conditioning inside/Texas heat outside. I think I was the only principal to survive virtually unscathed.

What was your favorite scene in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2?

Hmmm, I love so many of them. One scene in particular was the opening scene of Leatherface sawing up the yuppies on the interminable bridge. I loved the pickup going backwards as fast as the Mercedes was going forwards, loved the illusion that the bridge was 100 miles long, loved the muppet with the saw getting shot away to reveal Leatherface with his arms through the muppet, and of course I loved the sick Savini blood squirting out of the yuppie's sawed up skull.

I also loved my scene with Stretch in the radio station, the improv with "E-X-I-T, exit" that just came to me, Mr shark and rubber man, the line "Lick my plate, you dog dick" that popped into my head and out of my mouth on the spot. Most of that was improvised, and that's the most fun when you're living the character.

My creepy faves, though, were Leatherface cooling his hot saw in the bucket of ice between Stretch's thighs, and Leatherface patting LG's peeled face onto Stretch, anchoring it with a cowboy hat, and then twirling her to that weird calliope music. I stood just off camera watching that scene through a crack in the smokehouse wall, and even I, in full Choptop makeup and a fellow cannibal, was scared and creeped out by that!

Any new projects in the works?

Why, yes, I start work on Rob Zombie's "House of 1000 Corpses" this coming Monday (May 14). I play the part of Otis, creepy cannibal albino artist in said house. It's the meatiest role I've had since Saw 2, and I'm excited, happy and rarin' to go. I've also done a video with Tobe Hooper's son, Tony, called All-american Massacre that Tony's still editing. It's a Chainsaw prequel, told in flashbacks. Tod Bates plays young Choptop- back in my hippie days before I went to Nam and got that plate-covered head wound. That should be available one of these days- you can find out more by sending e-mails to bloodybobby@hotmail.com. I've also been doing music with guitar shredder Buckethead- he's about to be named new lead guitar player for Guns 'n Roses. We call ourselves Cornbugs, and we have a CD out called Spot the Psycho on Rack-O Records. It's available for fifteen bucks at my website, choptopsbbq.com, and that sucker rocks.

Is there anything you want to say to all of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 fans out there?

Yeah, recycle dammit and buy a Cornbugs CD.

What question would you most like to be asked in an interview, but have never been asked?

Hmmm, what sign are you? I'm a Scorpio blue-eyed left-handed Yale grad with two daughters and car payments and I'm still freakin' and twitchin' and howlin' at the moon. so my message is, you can have your plate and lick it too!