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Exclusive Interview with Zombie Boy Rick Genest


you may know him from his work with lady
gaga
hi I’m Rebecca Brayton and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
with Rico better known as zombie boy I
got my first tattoo listen right here
when he was 16
it’s a skull and crossbones pirates it’s
pretty cool the different kinds of death
like death in the sky on earth in the
ground you know just it’s all the same
one story of eight circles well my
friends were very supportive a lot of my
friends are like we’re already heavily
tattooed and every pierceton in this in
this scene right and as I got older my
tattoos accumulated
10 years later I’m still not done yet I
gotta finish up my legs
this one I’ve done to my foot and this
one I just started rocking the knee I
got get all this done in the rear-engine
we move on to uh probably to file my
teeth next I had my tongue split wait
grew back cuz I wasn’t taking care of it
but when that interview is over and we
go we do it I get I need my tongue for
speaking these days we’ll have music
heroes and heroes yeah yeah um horror
movies people like Clive Barker Tom
Savini all these cats came hotter Tim
Burton you got music people to living
and dead
oh yeah um a couple months ago uh we
were invited down to Milan for Guinness
World Records where they gave me two
medals one for having the most the most
bugs their official count 178 bugs which
I’ve added more since then and a hundred
and thirty-eight bones two separate
records I didn’t think of it but they
should have counted my spider webs maybe
I could have had three medals alongside
with my buddies we host the show was the
first blasphemous Magna cob torture
carnival featuring sadistic freak
sickening sites and horrible
abominations it’s pretty bad what
happens is we book a venue and it’s and
we replicate a night in hell you know
welcome to hell
hosted by the devil herself Lucifer my 8
foot boa so the show would start with
like a little snake dance you know the
devil bringing up the souls from the
dead in the Damned and we got an
executioner a psycho psychotic Auto
emulator unnecessary surgeon doctor cuts
lots of Mad Catz we got the fire
breathers and fakirs geeks you do
blockhead and and brain flossing and all
that funny stuff I do this trick where
you know a little I’m sure you’ve seen
it before we could put something up your
nose and pull it out your mouth yeah I
did that with worms mm-hmm yeah what was
last fall and was going through my
emails and I had the interesting
invitation to to participate in doing
some modeling for its hearing Blair
which went down the end of last January
beginning of February we started getting
involved with that project and from that
ranched proposition for after
participating with new glare there was a
proposition of doing the Lady Gaga video
Born This Way so that was really
exciting
you went down
– man I did another crazy weekend what’s
for lunch
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