For many followers, the scene in which blood will get dumped over Sissy Spacek in “Carrie” is known. For the star, it’s a reminder of how “terrible” it was to movie.
Ahead of subsequent yr’s fiftieth anniversary of the 1976 movie, which is predicated on the Stephen King novel of the identical title, Spacek talked to “Entertainment Tonight” concerning the now well-known scene. She additionally expressed shock that the movie was nearly a half a century previous.
Spacek starred because the bullied excessive schooler who has telekinetic skills which turn into unleashed over the course of the movie, culminating in a match of murderous rage over some very aggressive bullying: being doused with pig’s blood.
One factor caught out to her: “How sticky movie blood is,” Spacek stated. “It was terrible, terrible, terrible.”
She loved, nevertheless, working along with her costars, together with Nancy Allen, Betty Buckley, Amy Irving and John Travolta, in addition to director Brian De Palma.
“It’s so wonderful to get to work with people who are really into what they are doing,” Spacek stated.
The actress is at the moment showing in the well-reviewed new movie “Die My Love,” directed by Lynne Ramsay, and starring Jennifer Lawrence. Spacek has some ideas as to why the horror movie nonetheless resonates to today: “That time, middle school to high school, you’re going through so many changes and we all have, no matter what, we’ve got Carrie inside of us.”
“We’ve got a wounded teenager. It’s a hard, hard time,” she stated. “Growing up is hard. And it’s kind of heartbreaking. It really hit a nerve, that film.”
Amazon MGM Studios is getting ready a “Carrie” collection constituted of the fabric, to be made by Mike Flanagan, who created “Midnight Mass” for Netflix and directed “Doctor Sleep,” basically a sequel to “The Shining.” Spacek stated she’ll be watching.