RT: Did you enjoy making Season of the Witch?

Oh yeah, this was a real adventure for me. I'd wanted to play a knight for quite some time because it was a childhood fantasy of mine, and here I was finally getting to do that -- and dealing with supernatural forces that are becoming increasingly interesting to me, because I want to celebrate the movies of people like Christopher Lee and Vincent Price. I'm really trying to build a body of work that does that now. I don't want to do one kind of film only; I am eclectic and that's how I stay interested. So right now I'm in that phase, of movies that go into horror and mystery and the unknown.

Christopher Lee's in the film -- did you two talk about The Wicker Man and what it was like remaking his film?

Yeah, we did talk about that. First of all, I'm a huge fan of the original movie and his performance in it is outstanding, and I had to share that with him. We talked a little bit about the remake and he wanted to know what happened and I just said well, look, the movie was true to Neil LaBute's kind of intentionally absurdist black comedy view of relationships between men and women -- and we went for it. Let me put it to you this way: you don't get dressed up in a bear suit and do those kinds of things to women and not know it’s ridiculous [laughs]. The problem is people didn't know that we knew that it was what it was; hopefully now they will. I mean, I don't know how they couldn't know that, but that's okay.

The film's sort of become a cult item over time as people realize how absurd it is.

[laughs] I think so too and I think some things take time to mature, and with hindsight become a lot more understood.

You're working with Dominic Sena again on Season; had you been looking to do something together after Gone in 60 Seconds?

Well I really enjoyed working with Dominic on that movie. He makes you feel comfortable and you feel relaxed and that you can be creative. In this case he really had a chance to show his visual style. Gone in 60 Seconds was much more of a straight-up urban action film whereas Season of the Witch goes into far more imaginative places and more expressionistic places and Dom's really great at that in terms of lighting and landscape. I'm glad he had a chance to do that because I don't know how many people are aware of his ability in that department, but it's pretty immense.

The year ahead is looking typically busy for you. Have you wrapped the Ghost Rider sequel?

Not yet. I'm about a third of the way through. It's going very well.

How different is it from the original?

It's very different. I'm a fan of the first one but that one was more of a fairy tale where as this one is a completely different kind of animal, and that's what the directors wanted. But I have to say that I've never worked with anybody quite like Neveldine and Taylor before. It's a brand new experience. Mark Neveldine is doing things with the camera that are just mind-blowing. He's a combination stuntman/camera operator/director and I've never seen anything like it. He's on rollerblades hanging off the bike, hanging from wires that are 300 feet up in the air, I mean he's getting these shots and virtually risking his life. There's nobody else that really does any of that. And Brian Taylor is just so knowledgeable about filmmaking: in the same sentence you can talk about Michael Powell's Peeping Tom and then go into Ishirô Honda’s War of the Gargantuas -- he just knows movies. And he's totally been encouraging about me playing the Ghost Rider as well as John Blaze and this has opened up all sorts of new doors. It was because of him and his passion that we were able to go into areas that I think will really mess with people's minds; some really abstract, kind of wild supernatural stuff that's a lot of fun.

Season of the Witch is in theaters this week