Olivia Hussey

Well, of course, but I'm saying, like, th- they, they aren't doing a lot of planning and scheming.

You know, Olivia Hussey finds out at the end of the movie, like, "Oh, God, he's in the house." You know? That, that is very much a last, uh, last third, last 20 minutes of the movie kind of thing.

What I love about this is in so many ways what I love about my favorite movie of all time, which is Tremors.

Mm-hmm.

This movie came out in '74 with a, uh, little over $600,000 budget.

Olivia Hussey stars in it.

This was not long after she would, in Romeo and Juliet.

Uh, Keir Dullea from 2001, Margot Kidder, John Saxon, and a few other people you'll recognize in this film.

I thought the acting overall was really good.

Um, Margot Kidder is told to play a drunken kind of asshole character, and she very much is that.

Um, Olivia Hussey's very good in it.

Uh, John Saxon, very good in it.

Thank you

... eh, Olivia Hussey is always associated, will always be associated with Romeo and Juliet.

But what, what was it about Olivia Hussey and her story that made you want to tell this film?

Hmm.

Well, I mean, when I was a teenage boy, like a lot of boys, I had a poster of Olivia Hussey on my bedroom wall, and, uh, from Romeo and Juliet.

I think it was, it was the balcony scene with, uh, with Leonard Whiting.

Um, and I just thought she was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen.

And we ended up becoming really good friends.

Um, and it's just, it's really good, and it talks about his youth, so when his mom was still alive.

And Olivia Hussey plays his mother, and I really like Olivia Hussey.

Another good movie, she, she's in a lot of really good movies, but another good one that's a horror movie that she's in, I think it was from 1974, and it's the original Black Christmas.

That's a really good movie.

It's a really great...

It's a sorority movie where there's this creepy guy in the sorority house, and it's very unique.

Um, but Olivia Hussey is really young in that.

Um, she was also in the It movie.

Forever 15, forever tangled up in love and tragedy.

Today's doll is Olivia Hussey.

The main source for today's episode is Olivia's autobiography, The Girl on the Balcony, first published in 2018.

I truly believe I might be the one person who awaited this book the most.

He proposed as they sat in his car in Rudy's driveway, and Olivia accepted.

That evening, she accompanied him to a taping of the Merv Griffin Show.

Dino Martin and Olivia Hussey at a taping of the Merv Griffin Show.

I can't imagine anything more early 70s than that.

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Olivia Hussey.

Olivia.

And, um, what's his name?

Now, Black Christmas has an impressive cast for being what's called the first slasher film.

Olivia Hussey from Romeo and Juliet, Keir Dullea from 2001-

Whoa

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And then I, he saw, I did, I saw It's Me, Billy, thought he did a fantastic job.

It's Me, Billy Part Two is coming out, and um, mild spoiler alert, I think he actually got Olivia Hussey to be in it.

Ooh.

Yeah.

No había actrices, señor.

O sea, las Julietas no eran representadas por, eh, Olivia Hussey o por Vivien Leigh, sino por unos tipos.

Era Coco Sily.

Sí, Coco Sily.