Selma Blair, star of the upcoming horror remake The Fog, told SCI FI Wire that she liked director John Carpenter’s honesty about why he’s producing the remake: for the money.

“I appreciate it,” Blair said in an interview. “You can sense bulls–t. … You hear that all day. So you just appreciate someone that you know their agenda, so then you just realize it doesn’t involve you. You go do your own work. You’re not trying to please anyone.”

Blair said that Carpenter is one of the horror genre’s founding fathers and that he deserves to make some money off of his trailblazing efforts over the past three decades. “I think John Carpenter is a miracle of a guy,” she said. “He was a huge influence on horror, slasher, everything in these generations. He united with [producing partner] Debra Hill, gave women a voice, pioneered women heroines for modern-day horror. So he has definitely earned the privilege and the luxury of saying he’s doing something, one, for the money, and two, that the first one wasn’t his favorite.”

Blair added that Carpenter was very forthcoming about his willingness to sell the rights for the upcoming remake. “It’s like he said: [It’s] for the money,” she said. “If someone’s going to go out of their way to tell you it’s for the money, then it probably is. I like when people are honest. I get in trouble myself when I’m honest, so I like it when someone else looks like a jerk.” The Fog opens on Oct. 14.

Source: SciFi Wire