ANGRY MAN, THE BELKO EXPERIMENT

“I Could die tomorrow and be completely happy,” smiles Joe Fria, “having been killed on screen by John C. Mcginley.” Well, as John lennon once sang, whatever gets you through the night.

Fria is just one of the many to come to a sticky end in The Belko Experiment, James Gunn’s horror-thriller where employees are locked into an office building and forced to kill each other. His might be the stickiest, hacked to death by Mcginley’s Wendell dukes. “It was a wild day,” he recalls. “I was covered in an immense amount of blood for 16 hours. When he attacked me, I wore a pad made of magazines. It was a real cleaver! the sensation was dulled, but I felt it.”

the character was initially known as Angry Man, then tyson Moon after a throwaway reference in the script that never got changed. But when Fria showed up on the film’s Bogotá set, he was given a different name altogether. “robert Hickman,” he says. “I still have my little Belko nametag with that on it.”

Fria has known Gunn since the ’90s, popping up in Guardians Of The Galaxy

Vol. 2 as a ravager. they bonded in unusual circumstances. “during a writer’s strike, James was doing an online series,

PG Porn. the idea was to pair up famous porn stars with known actors in scenes that depicted what happens before the sex. I had a blast, and that’s how our working relationship began.”

Fria has nothing but fond memories of the Colombian experience. “It was like summer camp,” he says. “the stories of our drinking nights are legendary!” Save those for The Belko Experiment 2.