I must admit that at the time that I met Scott Wilson, I hadn’t yet actually seen the 1967 film In Cold Blood, a disturbing picture based on the novel by Truman Capote. But based on the strength of the fact that he was in it, I decided to put him on my list of autographs to pick up at the HorrorHound event in Cincinnati on March 22, 2013. I was even more pleasantly surprised that amidst all of the overblown photos of Mr. Wilson from his current hit TV series The Walking Dead – a show which I still have never once seen – there was a very iconic photo on his table, one that I had seen time and time again included in the Robert Blake section of the Maltin-Bann book Our Gang: The Life and Times of the Little Rascals.
It is surprising that my knowledge of Wilson came from his association with the craziest of crazy Our Gang members, because in his own right he had starred in a plethora of notable films: In the Heat of the Night, The Right Stuff, Pure Luck, Pearl Harbor, Monster, and Dead Man Walking, just to scratch the surface.
Naturally I asked him about, you guessed it, Robert Blake. He concurred that he was in fact crazy, but I think he was too much a gentleman to elaborate further. Since then I’ve seen the chilling film In Cold Blood, and had I seen it before I met him, I might have been more petrified of Wilson than Blake.
For $40 I walked away with the signed In Cold Blood photo (which is now begging for another encounter with Mr. Blake, dangerous as it may be), and a photo op for both Carolyn and me.
One day I might just tune into The Walking Dead and see what the fuss is about, but for now I’ll just continue to admire Scott Wilson’s earlier performances.
This concludes the celebrities from the Spring 2013 HorrorHound weekend. Return to the original posting here…
You should definitely watch “The Walking Dead.” I know you would love it!
Denise
July 14th, 2014