Favorite teenagers from Jaws 2

Favorite teenagers from Jaws 2 Mar 7, 2021 19:38:17 GMT via mobile Prime etc. likes this

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Post by dirtypillows on Mar 7, 2021 19:38:17 GMT

Mar 7, 2021 18:55:55 GMT Prime etc. said:

Mar 7, 2021 18:30:56 GMT dirtypillows said:

Ann Dusenberry would have been a good enough choice as Laurie Strode. She had the right look for it and enough acting talent. In fact, I think she is probably a better actress than JLC. Of course, looking back on everything now, nobody could have been more right for this role than Jamie Lee Curtis herself. "I wish I had you all alone. To myself. Just the two of us."

That was a cool piece of trivia. I thought I knew almost everything there was to know about "Halloween", before and after. Guess not! Thanks, Prime!

I pondered this when I first heard this trivia because I can certainly see Dusenberry as Laurie Strode and doing a good job. I checked out an Anne Lockhart movie--an obscure one from the time because I had forgotten her--she was in Battlestar Galactica. I am thinking she could have played the scared mousey teenager well, but would have been unable to connect with the kids--the comic book scene. I could see Dusenberry better at that and obviously being effectively scared.

But JLC had a tomboy quality which I think gave the part a kind of realism and Dusenberry may have been too glamorous. Because the closet scene--JLC is really good there--I think that's the signature scene in the movie where she is trapped and uses the coat hanger.

I agree. Curtis is really good there. Totally believable.

Also, Jamie's LS had a slight underdog quality that works very well in the movie. Maybe that's kind of what you were saying when you cited Ann's higher "glamour" quotient.