Catherine Hicks

But you have Melody Griffith, Amy Irving, Linda Blair auditioned, but she didn't want to be typecast, so she said, eh, I don't know.

Jill Klaber, Farrah Fawcett, Debra Winger, Kathleen Turner, Angelica Houston, Carol Kane, Catherine Hicks, Jane Seymour, Christine Cloutier.

Carol Kane, there you go.

Carol Kane, right? That's a good Mary.

Uh-

Because it's still got, like, Catherine Hicks as the mom, you know? Like-

Yeah, totally

... and even, dude, like, we'll get to it, but this Andy, holy shit.

Go ahead.

It's from the same director and the lead actor, not, not Catherine Hicks, but Sarandon-

Mm-hmm

... who did Fright Night.

And, uh, and Beverley, you know, it was, it has, like, a social media presence and, and, and kind of, like, and does a lot of that, that sort of thing.

And, and so Beverley reached out to me, as well as Mackenzie Rosman, uh, Catherine Hicks, uh, Barry Watson, and kind of, like, assembled us again-

Right, to get the cast, yeah

... because she had made a connection with, um, 90s Con.

It's like, Oh,

I'm having a super intense flashback to a moment in my life where I was with Catherine Hicks.

Keep your

shirt on while you're talking about this, Duncan.

Go ahead.

We'll cover our eyes.

So Catherine Hicks and I were sitting at a table and and we were talking and I was like, I just hate everything I see.

And she was like, yeah, that's why you're an artist, because you're like trying to make those things that don't exist.

And then finally, the only real new character they had was the biologist who now was the female love interest.

And her name was Jillian Taylor, and they cast Catherine Hicks to play that part.

And Catherine Hicks, her most highest profile thing prior to that was she had been in a movie called Irreconcilable Differences, which was kind of a making of or a spoof on what happened with – Peter Bogdanovich and Sybil Shepard during the making of Last Picture Show.

So she'd been in that.

And then she was in Child's Play.

You know, in preparation for you and I talking.

And I would say that I still think it holds up really, really well.

The only exception is I do think Catherine Hicks was ultimately miscast in the movie.

And so from what I understood when this was originally written, the movie was supposed to start with the courtroom sequences.

Chris Sarandon and Catherine Hicks were supposed to have cameos in the movie, and then we were supposed to see the courtroom scene.

And I'm not sure 100% what the reasons were for the scene to get cut.

I don't know if it was timing, if it was budgetary.

It's hard for me to say that Catherine Hicks... might have been bitter because she wasn't going to be in the rest of the movie.

Because let's face it, Catherine Hicks is married to Kevin Yeager and Kevin Yeager is the creator of the actual Chucky doll.

I did know that

from the documentary.

You have...

Catherine Hicks.

Yeah.

Chris Sarandon, who had starred in Tom Holland's other film, Fright Night, which we've done an episode on, so you can go back and listen to that.

Chris Sarandon, originally in the studio, was going to put him first on the poster, but he actually fought for Catherine Hicks to get it because she is the lead, even though he's more famous.

I couldn't believe he was in Leon from Dog Day Afternoon.

Well, yeah, and he's Princess Bride.

On the casting side of this film, Child's Play 2 did attract some serious talent.

So right away, uh, Catherine Hicks, although she is married to the special effects coordinator of this, [laughs] this movie, is not included for budgetary reasons.

Neither is Chris Sarandon, who bowed out of a proposed scene that he would appear in because he was, you know, Lafia and Mancini weren't his guys.

Uh, he was ...