“Filmmaker Kevin Smith adds an amusing bit part as a distrustful computer nerd holed up in a “command center” in his mom’s basement.”

I loved this flick. Naturally, I’m biased because I’m in it. But as of this writing, it’s got a 78% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes, so apparently, I’m not alone.

As I did earlier this year with “Catch and Release”, I’ve collected all the positive pull quotes regarding my little role (played with a very big roll, barely contained under my three costume shirts).

Of course, there were a handful of naysayers, the best of which was Ty Burr in the Boston Globe who wrote “They bring on Kevin Smith, the “Clerks” director and, increasingly, an indie-cred muppet for studio movies�” Any outrage I might’ve mustered evaporated after reading “indie-cred muppet”; unfair or not, that shit’s funny.

But in the reviews that mentioned me (and not all of them do, as I’m not exactly a prominent presence in the flick), the lion’s-share were thumbs-up. And while I won’t be quitting my day job to concentrate on acting any time soon, it was nice to know I didn’t just not sink the picture, I actually helped in some small way (nobody wants to be the guy that fucks up “Die Hard”). Thanks, all, for the kind words.

“We had to shoot alternate takes of almost every scene, in case the scene that we hadn’t shot yet that was going to be scheduled a month from now turned out either to be in the film or not in the film.” “There was a scene with Kevin Smith called “The Warlock scene,” because that’s the name of his character,” the actor continues. “Anything we didn’t know was going to be in the film [plot wise], we just said, ‘Put it in the Warlock scene.’ By the time we got to Kevin Smith, it was a nine-page scene. Fortunately, we had shot enough of the film by then to know what we needed from that scene.” The appearance of Kevin Smith on screen, about two-thirds of the way through Live Free or Die Hard, elicited a chorus of cheers from last night’s L.A. press screening audience. Smith wound up helping Wiseman and Willis write a lot of his big scene, which starts with a gruff greeting from his character Freddy Kaludis’ mom.

Kevin Smith Leaves Entourage At Home For ‘Red State’

Kevin Smith so loves working with the same group of actors, he once joked that had he directed “Jaws,” he’d “cast Ben Affleck as the shark.” But according to the director, familiar faces won’t be found in Smith’s upcoming “Red State,” a horror movie about religious fundamentalism.

“’Red State’ I would like to do with completely unknown people. I think it would be tough to settle into a horror movie if you’re like, ‘Hey! That’s the Snootchie-Bootchies guy,’” Smith deadpanned.

So no Jason Mewes, no Jason Lee, and no Jeff Anderson. But what about Bruce Willis, who Smith met while filming a cameo on “Live Free or Die Hard”? “Bruce Willis would never do one of my flicks,” smith laughed. “In a million years he wouldn’t. Dude would be like, ‘No way, I don’t want to put the kibosh on my career, man. I hitch my wagon to your star, forget it, we’re plummeting,’ Justin Long though, maybe one day. If he’s feeling charitable.”

Originally slated to be his next project, “Red State” may wind up being pushed back so Smith can next film “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” (A page of which was recently posted by “Entertainment Weekly”).

“I went to go work on ‘Zack and Miri,’ so I’m still working on the script for ‘Red State,’” Smith told MTV News. “We’re not sure. We were going to shoot ‘Red State’ first and then ‘Zack and Miri’ second, but we might flip-flop ’em, [do] ‘Zack and Miri’ first. Script’s done [and] it’s out to actors now. We’ve just submitted our budget so we’re trying figure out if we’ll shoot in the fall or in the winter.”