Wade Boggs (Baseball Hall of Famer), Robert Davi (Die Hard), Kristy Swanson (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) and D.B. Sweeney (The Event) are going to need a bigger boat for their roles in the new Syfy original movie, Swamp Shark. This 2011 American horror film is directed by Griff Furst and produced by Kenneth M. Badish and Daniel Lewis.

In this made-for-tv thriller, a killer shark gets released into a remote Louisiana river. A local family must battle the swamp shark to prevent it from tearing more innocent people to shreds.

PCM got to speak to the cast of this successful horror flick, as it brought in 2.2 million viewers for its premiere on Saturday, June 25th. During the conference call the cast discusses the peaks and falls of filming this entertaining picture.

Question: Let me ask how did each of you get involved with this project?

Robert Davi: Well, I got a phone call from the agents and they said, "Hey, there's a Syfy movie called Swamp Shark." So I was immediately intrigued by the title because I have a 10-year-old boy where all he does on You Tube is look for swamp shark images. And him and his friend -- his 10-year-old friends gather around that computer and they go, "Wow look at this shark thing." So when I heard Swamp Shark I said, "Send me the script."

I then read the script, and I enjoyed it - it had a great sense of fun, it had a great sense of humor, it had the tradition of course of seeing a film that was shot in Louisiana in the Bayou which is a great location, a sort of a different place to put a shark and I then asked them to, you know, the directors and the producers that had some ideas about the character and they were very open to that. And the process started forward and then of course the beautiful Kristy Swanson was involved.

Question: And Kristy how did you get involved?

Kristy Swanson: Oh, I also got a phone call from my agent to read the script and I thought that the title of it was very interesting as well. And then I heard Robert Davi was on board and I'm a big fan of him and a good friend of him and so I thought this would be a really good experience to work with him and be a part of the project. I really liked the character that I would be playing. She's a very strong female role and I'm always attracted to that and that's how I got involved.

D.B. Sweeney: The reason I got in, I heard Wade Boggs was in and I'm a big Red Sox fan - a big baseball fan. So I had all kind of chicken recipes I wanted to try out and I had already gotten on the plane before I found out Davi was in it. It was too late to pull out so I had to go down and make...

Robert Davi: I know. That was already signed because when I found out D.B. was in it, I was going to pull out.

D.B. Sweeney: But no. I know Robert and Kristy and it sounded like it was going to be a lot of fun and it certainly was. And I went to school in Louisiana for awhile, so I love that part of the country and it was just a lot of good reason to do it.

Wade Boggs: This is Wade Boggs. I was in a golf tournament in Orlando with Jeff Chase and he plays the Swamp Thing, and he asked if I would be interested in doing a bit part in a movie that he was doing down in Louisiana -- for up in Louisiana rather -- and I said, "Absolutely." Being a baseball player, you're a ham any way and got an opportunity to play somebody other than myself in an acting role. So I was really looking forward to it and just had an absolute blast with meeting Robert, and D.B., and Kristy, and the whole cast. It was really a special opportunity for me.

Question: This question is for Wade. Wade, can you talk about the similarities between the zone inside the batter's box and the zone of acting? Is there a similar focus or are they different?

Wade Boggs: Well actually I think they're somewhat different. I know that the concentration has to be exactly the same. You have to portray an individual and people have to believe, and I think being an athlete you don't have the opportunity to say cut, Take 2, cut, Take 3, cut, Take 4. You either strike out or put the ball in play. So I think there's somewhat similarities, but by concentration. Like I said about knowing your lines and coming across, but if I had to have a druthers I just love acting.

And being a baseball player you're an actor, too. You're playing in front of 45,000/50,000 people every night and so you're on stage. So basically that's the acting bug that comes out in you.

Question: And D.B., since you were in Eight Men Out earlier in your career is it extra special to be in a movie with Wade Boggs?

D.B. Sweeney: Oh yes. I mean he's one of the all-time greats and when I did Eight Men Out Wade was with the Red Sox at that time and his career batting average was pretty close to... that's when I was able to measure how well Shoeless Joe Jackson did in his era. One of the metrics that I could look at was that Wade was one of the dominant hitters at that time. So it was a big thrill for me.

I mean I'm sure he deals with it all the time but when you're a baseball fan I think that part of you that's 9 or 10 years old comes out when you get around the guys you watched on TV.

Question: And Robert and D.B., you guys have both played some really good guys and bad guys. At this point in your careers do you have sort of a preference?

Robert Davi: Well right now I want to sing. I'm doing an album that'll be out called "Davi Sings Sinatra" and that lets me be the good guy. But no, it's a great way to slip in a plug. It's fun playing all kinds of characters if they're fun and interesting and whether it's good guy or a bad guy. And you know, this was fun for me because I played a guy that was kind of like going back East but then move to the Bayou for the last 25 years. I had an uncle that did that. He had the strangest accent, so I kind of like fashioned it after him and it was fun to do that. I'm open to all kinds of interesting characters.

D.B. Sweeney: I think a lot of times playing a bad guy is more fun I think because you got to stir the pot, you know, the protagonist often has to walk a sort of straighter line. When you're the bad guy anything goes. You're not constrained in the same way as the guy who's in every scene and the audience has to sort of root for.

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