[Movies] Danielle Harris Talks H2 (POSSIBLE SPOILERS)
Posted by Larry Csonka on 07.02.2009
Possible spoilers inside, so be careful…
- IGN.com recently spoke with Danielle Harris about H2, where she plays Annie Brackett. Here are some highlights of that interview…
On Where H2 Picks Up From: "The opening actually picks up probably about two hours after [Laurie] shoots him, from the last movie. There's a bunch of stuff in the hospital as well. And then it will smash cut to two years later. Laurie now lives with Annie and Sheriff Brackett, because her parents are gone. We have a very interesting relationship two years after. [Fear Clinic's] Susan and Annie are kind of similar. Both characters have sort of evolved into [being], like, odd, self-righteous, sensitive but never knowing it, because they've been through such traumatic things in their lives."
"On H2, this terrible, horrible thing that happened two years ago – cut to how it affects you. Maybe that you're not wanting to come out of your house. Maybe never getting out of a bathrobe. Not wanting to be that feisty, sassy, spunky I'm going to date guys [girl]… After you're attacked by somebody, that kind of goes out the window."
On The Emotional Toll The Films Takes On Her: "I had a harder time emotionally with Rob Zombie's Halloween and H2 than I did when I was a kid. When I was a kid, it was totally fun and I didn't understand when I did Rob's Halloween, why it was so hard for me to shake it off. I'm like, "I'm an actress! Why am I getting a feeling like I want to cry? This is weird! I did enough crying when I was there [on set]. I don't know why I'm still feeling this way." I think it was because it was the first time I was ever physically touched by him. As a little girl, as Jamie, he never got me, ever. Now as an adult, I don't have my clothes on, doing scenes I've never done before as an actor, and I'm actually being attacked. Even though I should know the guy by now, it's still a weird thing that happens with your psyche I think."
"But it was familiar… I guess it's kind of like if you move out of the house that you grew up in as a child and you come back as an adult. It feels the same, but everything looks different. You don't remember that door being that low and that carpet looking that way. You have this idea of what it's supposed to be like, and then once you get in there it's completely different. The feeling is the same, but it just looks completely different. That's sort of the way that I felt. I think there's a good possibility that I won't come back for another Halloween. I mean, you never know… I say that after every single one! But it's kind of fun to end that part of my life and then move in to this world [on Fear Clinic]. This is a world that I'd like to live in for the next twenty years, just like I did with Halloween. So I'd be more than happy to be Susan and work with these guys. I think all three of us are really ready to start something different. "
