(Of the three stars of The Blair Witch Project, only Leonard is still a working actor Williams is now a middle-school guidance counselor.) Though they weren't particularly friendly at the time, they've come to bond over their strange shared experience in the years since.
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But how could I say no to improvising an entire feature-without a stitch of makeup, with layers of clothes, and dirt, and knives-and nothing but a pile of rocks to scare you with?"ĭonahue's mother received a sympathy card from a distant relative who believed The Blair Witch Project was real.ĭonahue was cast in the movie that would eventually be titled The Blair Witch Project opposite Joshua Leonard and Michael Williams, two similarly unknown and similarly committed actors. How could I say no to that? Nobody wanted me to go into the woods with a bunch of strange guys. But that was the thrill! The fuck-you thrill of it. I was the most unfuckable ingenue to ever be in a blockbuster. "No ingenue was willing to be so unfuckable. "No size-8 woman was playing the lead in dirty jeans, with no mascara, with unwashed hair," she said. And none of it will ever be the first line of my obituary."īut when the subject turned to the brilliantly calibrated performance that actually made The Blair Witch Project such a success, her tone brightened. I've done all these things since: I've published a book, I've grown weed, I've produced this independent TV pilot. "Like, what am I going to do to surpass that? That will always be the first line of my obituary, no matter what else I do.
"It's quite a thing to crawl out from under: To have your obituary actually written when you’re 24, in both literal and figurative ways," she said. This week, when I asked her the same question, she got philosophical. Back then, when I asked her how she felt about The Blair Witch Project after so much time had passed, she told me her feelings were in flux almost every day.
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