Known as the "King of the B-Movies," Bruce Campbell has earned longevity as an actor through the popularity of the "Evil Dead" films and "Army of Darkness" (all directed by high school friend Sam Raimi) as well as TV stints in "Adventures of Briscoe County" and "Xena." He's even written a best-selling autobiography detailing his rise to the middle echelon of actors-"If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor." His cheeky over-the-top acting style and matinee idol good looks made him a natural for his most current role as an aged Elvis, fighting a soul sucking Egyptian mummy, in "Bubba Ho-Tep." In town to promote this latest effort, Campbell reminisced about his Midwest upbringing in suburban Detroit and the thrill of portraying another King.

I found this script endearing…two old codgers ruminating about what it's like to be in a rest home. It is not a mean-spirited movie. And it's not just another cookie cutter, Hollywood movie. You won't see this one on an airplane! A big studio could never have done this one-they're nervous about everything. Cancer on a penis? A black guy who thinks he's JFK? Films like this aren't released-they escape!

I had an Elvis impersonator but he gave up after 45minutes-he said, "You're never gonna get it, man-forget it!" Of course the makeup helped, but I found that the trick was to play the guy without the Memphis Mafia stuff, the clambake Elvis or Colonel Parker's grand design of Elvis-those are caricatures to us. Elvis was a real guy. He was lonely.

Being brought up in the Midwest-in Detroit where we'd get Chicago's shitty weather two days later! Working as a production assistant in Detroit also makes you realize that for every one person in front of the camera, there's 40 people doing all of the work. I think that's a forgotten group of people, these people who work behind the scenes, who make you look good and sound good. I get pissed off when actors don't acknowledge that. Some actors have an arrogance about that that's based on ignorance.

You've lived for 10 years in Los Angeles but now you live in Oregon. How do you like that? When I lived in LA I wanted to get out of there every weekend and go someplace crazy. I am not a big city guy. Now I live where I wanted to go. I see shooting stars every night and always know what phase the moon is in. I live in a weird house built by an English woman; been there six years. It's a sod house-looks like a Hobbit house-not very big, built into the hillside. There's 18 inches of grass on the roof and no central air or heat. I just need two fires a day to keep it heated and it stays cool naturally. I just need a goat on the roof to keep the grass cut!