Written by James M. Tate / 6/01/2015 / No comments / adrienne king , betsy palmer , horror , interview , tribute
BALLET OF THE MACHETE: 'FRIDAY THE 13TH' STAR ADRIENNE KING
Adrienne King Interview |
Adrienne King & Betsy Palmer |
And here Adrienne King goes blow by blow on the famous scene with Betsy Palmer in Sean S. Cunningham’s 1980 horror classic, FRIDAY THE 13TH…
Go Ahead, Make My Day |
That she was going to beat the shit out of me… And that… We knew this going in… Sean wrote down these notes and we basically, it was like… It was choreographed, almost like… I call it “The Ballet of the Machete.” Because we walked through it many, many, many times while it was still getting dark…
We didn’t get the Fever Pitch going until probably about 2 a.m. when we revved up to those scenes and then… She, once we started shooting… It was just no holding back, and everything you see in there, that face going into the sand – she was pounding me!
Move back, Oar Else! |
She was lucky she didn’t get impaled with it, you know… Because that was, basically, even though we had the choreography, again… Sean was all about following his actors with the camera, not the actor’s staging for the camera…
Bullied at the Beach |
You know, Betsy, I used to always say… It was like; I compare it to playing tennis with a better player… She was consummate in her craft and she gave me everything she had, and she pulled my game up all the way, you know?
And we watched it together for the first time… A couple of years ago in Chicago… They had an old… at the old Music Box Theater… They had renovated the beautiful theater in Chicago…
They had a midnight screening and then, Betsy and I were just blown away... Because we’d never watched it together. And we sat in the back of the theater with a writer friend of ours… And the whole audience was packed and there were still screams, and they still jumped and it was just... It was a cool thing. And Betsy tapped me on the leg, and she said, “Honey, it still holds up.”
Adrienne King and Betsy Palmer in the original FRIDAY THE 13TH |
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