Betsy Palmer

As far as the logistics go, it will always be easier to have a silent face covered killer because you can get all kinds of people into that role and not worry about them asking for more money or whatever.

Whereas somebody like Betsy Palmer,

the actress who played Pamela, was like, actually, horror sucks.

I hate it, and I hate this movie.

You know, the people who make all their money selling this stuff different.

But for the people who crafted these films, Disney, as I said, told Adriana Casalotti, like, you can't do nothing.

you are barred from telling anyone you're so white you can't sing again you can't use your skills friday the 13th actresses got to enjoy the legacy that their roles and their film created like betsy might have betsy palmer might have taken the role to buy a car but she came around to embracing this fan base adrian king built this whole career and has folded in the Alice Hardy of it all.

So this Snow White pushed aside.

In this conversation, Ari takes us back to the beginning.

what it was like growing up in the entertainment industry, stepping into such an iconic role at a young age, and working along legends like Betsy Palmer, who played his unforgettable on-screen mother, Pamela Voorhees.

He shares how the original film aimed for realism over spectacle and why that grounded approach made the story hit so hard.

But Ari's story doesn't stop at the edge of Crystal Lake.

Now that's just so wonderful, but it's, it's very out there and, and very wild and manic and, and, um, I think what Sean did want to do was to, create something that would be somewhat plausible.

And supposedly it, the original Friday the 13th is based on certain newspaper articles and occurrences that the writer Victor Miller had actually heard about.

You know, I like to think that it's, it's the greatest because, I mean, not only because I'm in it, but also it's the role of mama, you know, mama Voorhees, uh, played brilliantly by Betsy Palmer.

Okay.

What?

And then he said that Betsy Palmer, who plays Jason's mom, he's like, "I won't give you her address, but let's just say she lives in row eight and tough."

It-

Put this in his written review

"Kill her, mommy.

Kill her.

Kill her, mommy." Um, and then Betsy Palmer, she loses this UFC fight, I think.

It's like a 50 to 45 scorecard.

And they're returning to some of the New Jersey filming locations and recreating familiar moments and things like that.

And Linda Cardellini, who plays Pamela Voorhees, said she went back and watched The first two – well, I think she watched them all, but she paid close attention to the first two and Betsy Palmer's performance as Pamela Voorhees because that's the character she's going to play.

So that's why we're looking at these two.

But, you know, I tend to – I don't watch a lot of trailers and stuff like that, but I just get the sense that – it could expand into other areas.

So that's, I think that's her, you know, she's just bringing herself to the role.

It is her.

I was at a con waiting to meet Pamela Voorhees and Betsy Palmer.

And the line was forever long because she took a lot of time with people.

So you're wondering if we were ever going to get, you know, go full fathom Friday the 13th.

we go there we drop a lot of bodies in really creative ways there's a lot more it's a lot more brutal i think more brutal than the movies i wanted to dip into all the time that occurs between what we know was jason's drowning and the woman that we know from the first movies as we meet pamela vorhees for like 10 minutes in the movie you know played by betsy palmer then she gets her head lopped off And as he puts it, it's a little bit of Friday the 13th blue balls, and I feel like you want to know more.

So they're going to do some shot-by-shot recreations of things from the movies.

Hmm.