Jamie Lee Curtis, before her debut and great performance in 1978. Hallowe’enwas also initially offered to audition for the popular horror film, The exorcist.
Producer Ray Stark wanted 12-year-old Curtis to audition for the role of the young, possessed Regen MacNeil in the classic 1973 horror film, but her late mother, Janet Leigh, rejected the offer.
He strange friday The actress recalled how Stark called her mother to make the request.
She opened up: “He called my mom and said, ‘Hey, I’m producing the movie of the book The Exorcist. Will you let Jamie audition for it?'”
“And at the time I was probably 12 and I was cute and a little sassy and had a certain personality, and I’m sure he saw me at a party and said, ‘Oh, she would be fun.'”
Jamie revealed in The Drew Barrymore Show that her mother simply said “No”, thinking that her daughter should experience her childhood first.
She explained: “My mom really wanted me to have, thank God, a childhood, which I understand you didn’t have. You didn’t have that option.”
Today, the 67-year-old is grateful that her mother turned down the offer to play the possessed character on screen.
The role was later played by Linda Blair, who played it in two films.
Scarlett Johansson has reportedly signed on for the upcoming reboot of The exorcist, which is directed by Mike Flanagan.
