Cool Stuff: Live Deliciously With This Black Phillip Funko POP From ‘The Witch’
By Chris Evangelista/May 4, 2018 6:00 am EST
Wouldst thou like the taste of butter? A pretty dress? Wouldst thou like to live deliciously? Wouldst thou like a tiny replica of Black Phillip, the hell-goat who upstaged everyone else in the wonderful horror film The Witch? I can’t help you with the first three things, but I can point you towards the Black Phillip Funk POP. Check it out.
Coming Soon: The Witch – Black Phillip Pop!https://t.co/fc993GCArH pic.twitter.com/9BXVYDf61o
— Funko (@OriginalFunko) May 3, 2018
The real Black Phillip was a 210-pound billy named Charlie. And Charlie wasn’t the best actor. “If we wanted him to be doing something violent, he wanted to go to sleep. If he was supposed to be standing still, he was running around like a madman,” director Robert Eggers told THR. Yet Charlie also managed to injure The Witch actor Ralph Ineson. On the fourth day of shooting the film, Charlie rammed his horns right into into Ineson’s ribs and dislodged a tendon. “He was horrible. Really, really horrible,” Ineson said. “From the moment we set eyes on each other it was just kind of hate at first sight. He had two modes: chilling out and doing nothing, or attacking me.” Oh, Charlie, what a wildcard you are.
Black Phillip is the first A24 movie character to get his own Funko Pop, which begs the question: which A24 player will be next? Saoirse Ronan’s Lady Bird from Lady Bird? Scarlett Johansson’s alien from Under the Skin? The ghost from A Ghost Story? Tom Hardy and his car from Locke? The possibilities are kind of endless here.
