Lloyd Kaufman Reveals His ‘Toxic Avenger’ Cameo in the Wake of Cameo in James Gunn’s ‘Superman’

There is no Toxic Avenger without Lloyd Kaufman — and that includes writer-director Macon Blair‘s new take on the cult classic.

In addition to serving as a producer on the superhero horror-comedy reboot, the Toxic Avenger creator makes a cameo in the film as The Hospital Grump.

“Macon gave Uncle Lloyd a wonderful cameo — much better than James Gunn does,” Kaufman jokes with Bloody Disgusting.

“My father used to say, ‘If you rub the back of a hunchback, you have good luck,'” he adds. “With James Gunn and some of the other people who’ve come out of Troma, I’m that hunchback. I haven’t told Macon about that, but he has to rub my hunchback.”

After Lloyd Kaufman gave him his start in the industry, James Gunn has repaid the Troma president with cameos in all of his films, from Slither and Guardians of the Galaxy to a blink-and-you-miss-it appearance in Superman.

“Lloyd paid me $125 to write my first film, Tromeo and Juliet,” Gunn once wrote of the experience. “It may seem cheap, but it was a great way to get my foot in the door in feature filmmaking!”

For his take on Toxie, Macon Blair tells Bloody Disgusting that he wrote a role specifically for Kaufman.

“Before I had a script, before I knew what the story was going to be, I knew there needed to be a Lloyd cameo in the movie, and I knew the nature of it needed to be some version of him telling me to shut the fuck up.”

He continues, “That’s how it was all organized and orchestrated. That’s why I put myself in the movie, so I could appear at just the right moment for him to wag his finger at me and tell me to knock it off. I wanted the cameo to be like the old master telling me to get off his lawn.”

Lloyd Kaufman appears in The Toxic Avenger alongside Peter Dinklage, Jacob Tremblay, Taylour Paige, Julia Davis, Jonny Coyne, Elijah Wood, and Kevin Bacon.

Get your tickets now to see The Toxic Avenger unrated in theaters on August 29!

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