The Verge: Kodi Smit-McPhee

So what's your regular, day-to-day life like when you're not starring in movies?

When I know I'm not doing any auditions, I go to the skate park on my scooter or my bike. I'll go to my friend's house. Stuff like that. Normal stuff.

What bands do you like?

I like everything from hard-style techno to rock and roll.

Were there any scenes in The Road that you had a blast doing?

I think people would not expect this to be fun, you know when we were running and he had me on his shoulder? That wasn't fun. [Laughs] But in between those scenes, we would find all these beetles and put them in this container with holes in it, and let them go the next day. And I did sword fighting with the audio guy. But there would have been other things that were fun as well.

The scene where you explore the home -- the scariest scene in the movie. What was that like?

Well, I'll let you in on a little secret. That house was freaky. They said there was a boy that once lived there who was a bit freaky. And when we went upstairs, he had engraved stuff on the walls -- writing and stuff. And I was like, "OK. This is weird." And then we did the shooting, when we went down into the cellar, that was pretty freaky. Even for me.

Creepy! Got any other scary stories from the shoot?

There was a ghost! We were filming at this haunted hotel next to an amusement park in Pennsylvania that had burned down in a fire. There were people who had died in the fire at a wedding at a hotel that night, and one of them was this little girl. She was supposedly living in a room across from where I was studying with my teacher. I looked inside, and all her stuff was still there. All this vintage stuff. And I thought, that doesn't look right.

So I said to my teacher, "Do you think they just get paid to tell the stories?" And just as I said that, Viggo's jacket was sitting inside this tin bin. And it jumped up out of it! There was nothing else in that bin. I checked it. And I ran downstairs and I said, "This thing jumped out of the bin." Nobody believed me. But later, someone on the set heard a bell upstairs, and she thought it was one of the grips. But she went up to see who had rung it and there was no one there. When she left, the bell started going on again. Then it went off, then the light started flickering. After that, people finally believed me.

Whoa! Scary!

Yeah!

What are you doing next?

I've got something I'm interested in, but it's not 100% yet.

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