James Purefoy Enjoyed Working on 'Blessed' Movie

In a recent interview with Sci-Fi Wire, James Purefoy (Resident Evil, A Knights Tale) said that he enjoyed making the upcoming indie horror flick 'Blessed'.

It went fine.  Heather Graham, lovely. Andy Serkis, terrific. It was very sad, David Hemmings dying. He didn't finish his role. God, old actors don't die, do they? They just get CGI-ed. It's just alarming.

Purefoy, who is in the most recent issue of Vanity Fair, added that his new movie is quite difficult to put into words.  He and Graham play a couple who are unable to have children on their own.  They then turn to a local fertility clinic only to find out that Graham has been impregnated with the Devil's DNA.  Purefoy asks mockingly:

What is it?  How would you pitch it? You'd pitch it as ... a cross between Rosemary's Baby and The Omen, with me as John Cassavetes. It's scary. It's a horror movie. What can I say? I made a movie a few years ago called Resident Evil. People said, 'What is it? What is it?' I'd go, 'Well, it's a zombie movie.' It was a zombie movie. It's just one of those movies. I'd go see it.

Purefoy explained the reasons why he has played roles in such a wide range of movies and television shows over the years.

You'll go see one kind of movie and the next day you'll go see something else.  I like doing all of those kinds of movies. Being an actor, there are so many misconceptions about it. Sometimes it's about the script and sometimes it's about going to the ATM and seeing how much money you've got in there. It's as simple as that. We're just working. You've got a job and sometimes you've got a mortgage to pay. So every now and then you'll do the Resident Evils of the world because you might have that mortgage to pay. I really liked the script for this film, Blessed. I thought the script was terrific. I really enjoyed reading it. I thought they had a great relationship, these two central characters. So I did that because I liked it

I must say it's refreshing to here an actor actually be honest about the roles he plays.  'Resident Evil' may not have been 'Hamlet', but at least he performed an admirable role.  'Blessed' has wrapped shooting and its producers are currently seeking a distributor.