Five years ago Jamie Lee Curtis achieved her breakthrough performance in HalloweenThe scream queen almost got her screen spot in another horror classic.
The Oscar winner recently remembered her late mother Janet Leigh rejected 12-year-old Curtis's audition for the role of the young possessed Regan MacNeil in the 1973 film. William FriedkinThe film, based on William Peter Blatty's '71 novel, was made after producer and friend Ray Stark asked the teenager to read for the role.
“He called my mom and said, 'Hey, I'm producing a movie based on the book.' Exorcist. Will you let Jamie audition?’” she said in the interview. The Drew Barrymore Show. “And at the time I was probably 12 and I was cute and a little sassy and I had some personality and I'm sure he saw me at a party and said, 'Oh, she'd be funny.' And my mother said, “No.”
Curtis admitted that Barrymore was not given the same “protection” as a child actor, explaining: “My mom really wanted me to have – thank God – a childhood, which I understand you didn't have.” You didn't have that opportunity.”
Linda Blair eventually landed the role of Regan in the film, reprising the role in the 1977 sequel. Exorcist II: Heretic (and even lampooned the franchise with Leslie Nielsen in a 1990 skit). seized).
Linda Blair in the movie “The Exorcist”
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WITH Exorcist franchise, which has released six installments over the years, as well as the 2016–2017 Fox series, Scarlett Johansson subscribed to the upcoming reboot from writer/director Mike Flanagan and Blumhouse-Atomic Monster.
