Actress Sissy Spacek Admitted In An Interview That She Just “Terrified” Me By The Shower Scene In Which She Starred Carrie (1976), directed by Brian De Palma and which still today, 47 years after the film, i can’t see her.
Sissy Spacek embodies in the film the young Carrie White, a teenager who discovers she has telekinetic powers that emerge when anger takes over her.
The scene has an excellent build where Carrie is bullied by the rest of her classmates during the end of a volleyball game and they all make their way to the locker room.
Bullying in the showers
Few schools have comfortable locker rooms and showers where you can have some privacy, and Carrie’s school was no exception. Specifically, the victims of bullying When it comes to showering, they have to do so in the same room as their attackers, where, moreover, their vulnerability is much greater when naked.
The character has an extremely religious mother who exerts a pernicious influence about Carrie and, perhaps out of embarrassment or some incapacity in his relationship with his daughter, he didn’t even tell her about the menstruation and the symptoms preceding that natural trance.
Well, Carrie arrives in the shower in the midst of that aggressive climate of her companions and underwater she realizes that she is menstruating in front of all of them without having any idea what is happening.
Carrie’s panic coupled with the unsympathetic response from her peers creates a cruel opening scene, but very effective and this places Carrie very close to the sympathies of the viewer.
The protagonist shows us a teenager who has been abused throughout her life, both by permanent bullying and by her mother who isolated her to protect her wrongly and who reaches the age of 17 without knowing the existence of the menstrual cycle. Spacek embodies that young woman believably.
A scene he can’t get over
However, filming the scene was not easy for the actress. “It was terrifying,” she said The independent in an interview last year. “I went to De Palma and asked him to tell me about the scene, how is it? He looked at me and said, “It’s like I’m about to get hit by a truck.”
Now it turns out that Sissy Spacek’s husband Jack Fish was hit by a car when he was a child, and she has decided to use that experience to help her with the role she has to play at the moment.
“I remember in that scene, what’s going on in my head is Jack walking on the side of the road when he was 11; it’s snowing and he’s looking at the christmas lights and then he’s greeted by the lights of a car coming down the road and it ends up hitting him and i see everything.
It’s an original comparison to the shower scene, but it makes sense since Carrie’s initial reaction to what’s happening to her is appropriate. “When Carrie is in the shower, I see those Christmas lights and then the horror of the blood. Isn’t it strange that something like this could work? Spacek said.
With such an unfortunate start, Carrie puts herself in the victim’s shoes. As the plot progresses, the viewer finds clear signs of what the outcome will be like, in which the protagonist kills all her classmates, and although no one can approve of these terrible deeds, she allows them to believe that they brought Carrie to that. point of no return and this perception is rooted in the opening shower scene.
Carrie It is based on the book of the same title, by Stephen Kingwho stated in 2011 about the film that “it’s a great horror and suspense movie and it’s so much better than the book”.
Spacek, Juliet Zylberberg and Campanella
Argentinian actress Julieta Zylberberg filmed the sci-fi series with Sissy Spacek last year night skydirected and produced by Juan José Campanella and while it was well received by critics and audiences, it didn’t progress beyond the first season.
Six weeks after its premiere on Amazon, it was reported that it was canceled due to lack of audience. night sky failed to make a “significant impact on audiences, or at least large enough to offset the high costs associated with sci-fi stories,” noted Deadline.
Source: Clarin
