Interesting interview with late great Brion James...

(When interviewed in August 1999 by Louis Paul)

LP: What do you recall about your role in SOUTHERN COMFORT?

BJ: It was the hardest movie I ever made as far as being physical. It was cold and freezing in that swamp. Carradine and the other ones, they wore wet suits under the clothes, I never wore one. I was miserable, but it worked for the movie. I played a local Cajun trapper. It's the only accent I ever had to learn. I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it. That one I had to study, and a real Cajun taught me how to do it. So, I did this Cajun patois, bastardized French. It was very different, it was like a southern black French.

LP: I have heard that Walter Hill, the director of that film was known as a taskmaster.

BJ: We called him the emperor. He's the most loyal guy in Hollywood. He hired me for that, and for other films. Walter Hill's one of the most loyal guys in town. Not too many guys do that.