Tony Walker

But, yeah, and then there's...

the body horror in this story is mostly about the face and, and identity.

So there's, there's identity that's, what is it?

Is it, it's not borrowed.

It's absorbed, isn't it?

In a sense.

No, no, I mean, I think that's right.

It is important to you.

And I mean, you think of anybody who's producing anything, they're going to produce work that reflects what is important to them.

Yeah, I was thinking about, you know, when you talk about traditional vampires, for them, people are like energy drinks, aren't they?

They're like, I'll crack a monster up and then I'll drink that and then move on untouched by it.

Whereas your creature,

It's a bit deeper than that.

It's not just an energy drink that you throw the can away in the park.

Whatever it is becomes part of whatever evolution this thing is involved in.

So talking about you, what do you consume in terms of books, films, graphic novels, whatever?

There's a lot of things you've talked about that we could talk about, but for some reason I've been going towards Tolkien recently, these past couple of weeks, and I was thinking of listening to the BBC adaptation from either 79 or 80 or something like that.

That's great.

I think, do they cut the Tom Bombadil bit out?

Because, of course, the movie's cut Tom Bombadil out as well.