'Human Target's' Jackie Earle Haley cuts deep for 'Nightmare on Elm Street'

 

It's mid-June in Chicago on the set of the upcoming "A Nightmare on Elm Street" reboot and prop master Billy Dambra is passing around one of the four specially designed gloves that Jackie Earle Haley will don for his turn as Freddy Krueger. The gloves are all affixed with five-inch blades on every finger, though some versions are pointier than others and at least one is made of rubber. The one that's being handed around by the various journalists isn't the rubber one. The blades, which aren't of uniform size, are blunted, but they have the potential for being dangerous.

 

"If I sharpen it up, I could carve you like a turkey," Dambra cracks.

 
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