Halloween Star P.J. Soles Looks Back at Her Totally Iconic Death Scene

Halloween Kills featured lots of nods to the 1978 authentic Halloween, bringing again characters from that groundbreaking movie to look at how the previous 40 years have handled them. But one fan-favorite character didn’t make the lower, for apparent causes: Lynda, performed by P.J. Soles, who meets her demise by the hands of Michael Myers whereas speaking to her shut buddy Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) on the cellphone.

In a brand new interview with Yahoo Entertainment, Soles seems again at a few of her formative movies (and shares an anecdote about nearly being solid in Star Wars). Of Halloween, she remembers not wanting Lynda to die as a result of she was having such a superb time making the film. “I knew it was my last scene, so as I’m falling out of frame, I just kept grunting. John [Carpenter] had to say ‘Cut,’ because I wouldn’t stop! I didn’t want it to end. That was three weeks of pure joy. Jamie was 19, and Nancy Loomis [who played Annie] was the same age I was. We all looked so young back then. Lynda was a great character to play because I was a straight-A student and I certainly didn’t smoke or have any boyfriends. So it was enjoyable to to play her.”

Nick Castle—who returned to play Michael Myers for key moments in Halloween Kills—was the person behind the masks for Soles’ loss of life scene. “He was tickling my neck with the phone cord for the first take. We did three takes,” Soles recalled. “For the first two takes, at least, I’m not very good for dying. I kept telling Nick, ‘You’re going to have to pull a little tighter.’ He was like, ‘I don’t want to hurt you,’ and I said, ‘You’re not going to hurt me. I’m supposed to die and you’re tickling my neck!’ So he did it a little harder. I did have to act a lot of that.”

Soles did have one thing to say about the truth that Lynda meets her doom after playing around together with her boyfriend—who additionally falls sufferer to Michael’s murderous methods. It’s a narrative selection that quickly turned a slasher-movie trope. “I’d rather be known as the girl who says ‘Totally,’ all the time,” she mentioned. “[We were] really just good kids. We were just goofing around! We didn’t deserve that.”

The entire interview, which focuses totally on Carrie, is nicely value a learn; head to Yahoo Entertainment to test it out.

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