Trivia / Ash vs. Evil Dead

• Actor-Shared Background: Bruce Campbell is a Michigander just like Ash.
• Awesome, Dear Boy: Dana DeLorenzo said in an interview that one of the reasons she secured the part of Kelly was that when she was asked if she'd be willing to wear prosthetics and play "possessed Kelly, she immediately said yes and danced around the room in her excitement. She said she'd been wanting to play a possessed character for a long time because she was a fan of Linda Blair's Regan.
• California Doubling: Set in Michigan, but filmed in New Zealand.
• Dawson Casting: The Kelly character seems to be intended to be a character in her early to mid 20s, though the show never specifies. Dana DeLorenzo was in her mid-30s when the series began, but in fairness, she does appear to still be in her early 20s.
• Exiled from Continuity: Elements from Army of Darkness weren't allowed to show up in Season 1 due to the film having a different copyright holder, although this didn't stop the show from indirectly referencing it. These legal scruples were resolved for Season 2.
• Fake Nationality: Kelly Maxwell is an American Jew with a Scottish surname, while the actress Dana DeLorenzo is Sicilian-American.
• Mid-Development Genre Shift: The series was originally meant to be the fourth movie, but due to so much material being written, the makers decided to turn it into a television series instead. If the first season was a movie, it would've been around five hours long. Subsequent seasons would have also been five hour movies as well.
• No Stunt Double: Mimi Rogers threw out her back a couple days before shooting her cameo as Kelly's mother. Nevertheless, she insisted on performing as many of the stunts she could physically do, including fight scenes, falls, and crawling on walls.
• The Other Darrin: In European French, Ash's voice from Army of Darkness, Patrick Floersheim, was replaced by Thierry Mercier.
• Production Posse: Bruce Campbell, Rob Tapert, and Sam Raimi are together again. Joe LoDuca is back doing the music. There's Lucy Lawless, of course, too. Since the show films down in New Zealand, a couple episodes were directed by Michael Hurst. The inevitable Ted Raimi finally shows up in season two as Chet, Ash's childhood buddy He also reprises the role of possessed Henrietta Knowby. Joel Tobeck (previously on HTLJ, Young Hercules, Spartacus: Blood and Sand and Cleopatra 2525) is the Season 2 Big Bad. Also Ellen Sandweiss returns for several guest starring appearances as an older deadite version of Ash's sister, Cheryl, and finally, as Cheryl's ghost.
• Real-Life Relative: Lucy Lawless, who plays Ruby, is the wife of co-producer Robert Tapert.
• Refitted for Sequel: The series ends with Ash waking up in a post-apocalyptic future, which was originally going to be how Army of Darkness was going to end.
• Role Reprise: Of course along with Bruce Campbell returning as Ash, Ted Raimi returns as Possessed Henrietta twenty-nine years after he first donned the fat-suit. Ellen Sandweiss also reprises her role as Ash's sister, Cheryl.
• What Could Have Been: Due to Executive Meddling and Creative Differences, showrunner Craig DiGregorio stepped down late in production of season two, and the finale was radically altered. Among other things, the events were meant to lead into the beginning of The Evil Dead (1981), and Ash was to end up having sex with a woman who would turn out to be Kelly's mother, accidentally changing the past to make him Kelly's father, with that new dynamic affecting their character arcs in the third season.

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