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``Carrie'' 3 actresses who reached turning points in their lives
2020.01.08
Nancy Allen, muse of early De Palma films
Nancy Allen plays Chris Hargensen, who is unable to attend the prom party after being accused of bullying Carrie by her teacher, and who holds a grudge against Carrie. She made her debut in the entertainment industry as a child actress at the age of 12, playing the role of female police officer Anne Lewis in RoboCop (1987).
She happily plays the role of an evil high school girl with a bitchy vibe, but she says, ``I didn't realize how bad the character I played was until I saw the finished movie.'' An unbelievable comment about a character who pours pig's blood on Carrie and tries to run her over with a car. Or rather, isn't Nancy Allen herself a character like that? I have a wild imagination.
However, Nancy Allen had a hard time filming ``Carrie.'' Nancy Allen ended up being slapped 30 times because De Palma didn't get the reaction she wanted when she was slapped by Betty Buckley, who plays Ms. Collins.
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At the time, De Palma was dating Betty Buckley. However, as they continue filming, he becomes completely captivated by Nancy Allen's sex appeal and becomes obsessed with her. In the end, De Palma abandoned Betty Buckley for Nancy Allen, and they married in 1979. When you think about it, this slap scene has a perverted composition in which De Palma's ex-girlfriend hits his current girlfriend.
Nancy Allen, who became De Palma's muse, went on to appear in De Palma's early works, including ``Nightmare Family'' (1980), `` The Dressed to Kill '' (1980), and `` Blow Out '' (1981). In ``Blow Out,'' she reunites with John Travolta, who played her lover in ``Carrie,'' for the first time in five years. However, her honeymoon with Brian De Palma did not last long, and they divorced in 1983. As if to foreshadow this, in ``Blow Out'' she is brutally murdered and ends up being treated in a way that does not seem like a heroine role. Nancy Allen, who first fell in love with De Palma for the role of a bully, was bullied in the end and their relationship broke up.