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Jamie Lee Curtis insists she did her own stunt where her face was thrown into a prop glass cabinet.
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“I was reluctant – if not trying to ban it – but it happened,” said director David Gordon Green.
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Green said in the film’s finale, Curtis stunt double only did two shots.
Jamie Lee Curtis wants to close out her career as scream queen Laurie Strode with a bang, and there’s no stopping her.
In “Halloween Ends,” the coda to the latest trilogy in the beloved horror franchise, which seems to mark the end of Curtis’ time as the character he’s played since 1978, the star insisted on doing his own stunts in the film’s finale if where Strode will face the villain Michael Myers for the last time.
“I would say 98% of the stunts are her doing them,” director David Gordon Green told Insider about the final fight. “Actually, his double only made two shots.”
Green said that when setting up the sequence, Curtis and the actor who plays Michael Myers, James Jude Courtney, were both brought in ahead of time and did a walkthrough of the scene so they could give suggestions on how to pull it off. this big moment in horror movie history.
Green said Curtis then revealed a stunt he wanted to do on his own.
“He said, ‘I want him to grab me by the hair and break me through the glass,'” Green recalled Curtis telling him about a prop glass cabinet they were using in the scene.
“And I’m thinking, I’ve got two more weeks to work with you, I can’t have shards of glass in your face,” Green said. “But she did it. That’s her face going in the glass. That stunt was her idea. I was reluctant — if not trying to forbid it — but it happened and it looks great.”
This is what the shot looks like on film:
“Halloween Ends,” currently in theaters and at the Peacock, was bashed by critics for introducing a new villain and keeping Myers on screen for half the movie.
Variety called it the franchise’s “most joylessly metaphorical and convoluted entry”, while it also has a low 39% Rotten Tomatoes score.
But the way Green sees it, it’s no fun doing a franchise like “Halloween” unless you take big swings.
“It’s tricky because you want to invite the fans to the party, but you also want to give something 100% of your creative energy,” Green told Insider in a Zoom chat about his mindset on making the third film. “You have to swing for a few, you don’t always hit them … but why not take a risk at this point?”
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