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Lets jump right into our list of the Top 5 Horror Movie Roles That Really Messed Up The
Actors.
Starting off at the number 5 spot--Kyle Richards- Many people now know Kyle Richards as a real
housewives of Beverly Hills.
But before she was a reality TV star a lot of people remembered her as Lindsay from the
hit movie Halloween.
During the filming of the movie Kyle was just 7 years old.
Filming went fine and Kyle actually made really good friends with the iconic actress that
is Jamie Lee Curtis- and they are still friends to this day.
But ok back to how this movie messed her up.
Well after attending the premiere of the movie Kyle was so terrified that she had to sleep
with her mom until she was 15 years old.
She was scared that someone was constantly hiding under her bed or behind the curtains
just waiting to get her.
Now I want to remind you when Kyle saw this movie she was 7.
And this movie was rated R so how that was allowed im not even sure.
I know that now a days even if kids act in a movie they are unable to see it if their
too young and a parent doesn’t give consent.
You guys have to admit Halloween is a pretty creepy movie so to watch that at 7 years old.
Yeah that’s going to freak you out.
Also you might want to take note that Kyle never acted in another horror film again.
In at number 4-- Linda Blair- Better known as Regan from the exorcist.
This is pretty much known as one of the best horror films of all time.
And at the center of it all little 13 year old Linda.
So you would think that having been so young this movie must have messed with her mind-
but surprisingly it didnt.
She says that at the time she didn’t really know what was going on and just looked at
it as acting.
However she is on this list so the movie must have effected her in some negative way right?
Well it turns out everything was fine until the exorcists release in 1973.
That was when Linda found herself hit with all of these questions in interviews about
possession- faith- and Catholicism.
Questions in which she was in no way prepared to answer.
In an interview later in life she said- To me the exorcist was a work of fiction.
I didn’t realize then that it dealt with anything in reality.
And so when the press kept asking me about all the devil stuff it just kept adding to
the pressure I was under- and it was an awful thing to go through as a teenager.
At number 3--Ashton Kutcher- The Film JOBS was the first biopic about Apple Computers
founder Steve Jobs.
In order to get into the mind frame for this role Ashton spent hundreds of hours studying
tapes of Jobs in an effort to accurately replicate his hunched walk and mannerisms.
But that’s not all Ashton also thought it would be a good idea to go on a very strict
fruit-only diet- just like jobs himself did.
But this landed him in the hospital.
Jobs was known to be a fruitarian and followed a strict diet of fruit- nuts and seeds.
About this experience Ashton said- The fruitarian diet can lead to severe issues.
I went to the hospital like 2 days before we started shooting the movie.
I was doubled over in pain.
My pancreas levels were completely out of wack.
It was really terrifying.
This was also frightening as Steve Jobs actually passed due to pancreatic cancer.
Coming in at number 2--Shelly Duvall- Shelly played a character named Wendy Torrance in
the frightening film the Shinning.
The director of the film- Stanley Kubrick- made set a living hell for Shelly and really
mistreated her.
Others on set could tell that something was wrong with Shelly but Stanley would tell them
not to sympathize with her- as she needed to stay in that mental state for her role.
You guys might not know this but the film was actually shot in chronological sequence
so people were really able to watch her character unravel on screen.
But what people didn’t know was that she was also unraveling in her real life as well.
When the film wrapped Shelly said that during the filming between May to October she was
in really poor health due to the stress of this role being so high.
She let it be known that Stanley pushed and prodded her further than shed ever been pushed
before.
She also admitted to it being the most difficult role shes ever played.
During shooting she literally got so stressed out that clumps of hair would fall out of
her head.
There was one scene in particular that set her over the edge and that was this scene-.
The director had he re-due this scene an insane 127 times.
This is a scene where the character is terrified and crying.
Imagine being forced to do that 127 times over and over again.
That would be exhausting.
Her co-star Jack Nicholson credited her part as the toughest job hed ever seen.
He said if roles were reversed he didn’t know if hed be able to do it.
And in at number 1--Adrien Brody- For his role in the Pianist Adrien really got into
the character of a man who lost everything by actually loosing everything.
He lost a ton of weight- sold his apartment- sold his car- got rid of his cell phone- and
even broke up with his long-term girlfriend.
He did this because he felt that the only way to really inhabit a man who lost everything
was to strip his own life down to its absolute basics and so that what he did.
He took 2 bags and his keyboard and moved to Europe.
Also the character he played was forced to scavenge for food so Adrien went on a crash
diet to lose weight fast.
He ended up loosing a total of 30 pounds in just 6 weeks.
At his lightest he was 130 pounds which for a man standing 6 feet 5 inches tall is dangerously
under weight.
About this he said- Theres an emptiness that comes with really starving that I hadn’t
experienced.
I couldn’t have acted that without knowing it.
Ive experienced loss- ive experienced sadness in my life- but I didn’t know the depression
that comes with hunger.
And on top of sacrificing everything and everyone in his personal life- and starving himself-
he was also practicing the piano for 4 hours a day until he could do a spot-on impression
of Chopin.
In an interview years later Adrien said he was depressed for a year after the movie wrapped.
He said he was very disturbed by what he embraced in the making of the film- and of the awareness
that it opened him up to.
But Adriens commitment to this role paid off as he then became the youngest person ever
to win the Oscar for Best Actor in 2002 at the young age of 29.
Alright and there you have it that’s our list of the 5 Horror Movie Roles That Really
Messed Up The Actors.
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