Peter Boyle

Uh...

Gee, I forget how I got it.

I knew Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman, and I knew Mel, and there was a conversation.

They wanted to do a spoof on Frankenstein and it was decided, you know, I was best for the monster, Marty was best for Igor and blah, blah, blah like that.

And Gene Wilder, you know, wrote the original script and then he and Mel rewrote it and it became a movie.

It just happened.

I didn't have to because I had seen the original when I was about 12 years old.

In the era before television where there was a movie in downtown Philadelphia that used to show old movies.

And a friend of mine and I went down to see the original Frankenstein and it scared me.

And it made such a strong impression on me that I really didn't have to go back and do research because I patterned my performance on Karloff and made, you know, and did it a certain way.

And I wanted to make it like there was somebody inside the monster.

Yes, of course.

Yes.

Well, Young Frankenstein really sort of spoofed the early Frankenstein movies, which were actually among the first sound movies ever made.

They were made in 1931.

And the lighting and the makeup was very much in the style of the silent movies.

It hadn't gotten that sophisticated.

So some of the makeup, you were aware that it was makeup.

That was somewhat intentional.

Yes.