Sissy Spacek reveals why filming ‘Carrie’ shower scene was ‘terrifying’
nypost.comrecalled how she made it through the nude scene where her similarly timid character, Carrie White, who unleashes telekinetic powers after being embarrassed at prom, washes off in the school locker room and discovers she’s started her first period. “It was terrifying.
I’m also very shy, and I’m an introvert,” Spacek, now 72, said.“I went to [director] Brian De Palma and said: ‘Tell me about this scene, what is it like?’ And he turns to me and he says: ‘It’s like getting hit by a Mack truck.’ ”Coincidentally, Spacek’s husband, designer and art director Jack Fisk, had been hit by a truck, so the actress said she went home and asked him for pointers. “So in that scene, what’s going on in my head is [Fisk] walking along the side of the road when he was about 11 or 12.
It’s snowing, and he’s looking at Christmas lights. And then he saw car lights,” she said. “There was a car coming down the road right at him, and it ran him over.
So, when Carrie’s in the shower, I’m seeing those Christmas lights, and then the horror of the blood,” she told the outlet, displaying an unsteady hand, just like in “Carrie.”“Ain’t it bizarre that something like that could work?”Spacek had a number of non-traditional tricks to get herself in the mindset of her outcast high school character.
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