TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D Star Alexandra Daddario Wanted To Cut This Infamous Line
Alexandra Daddario is having a moment. The Texas Chainsaw 3D alum now stars in the excellent new HBO series The White Lotus by creator Mike White (creator of HBO’s Enlightened). But Alexandra Daddario hasn’t always worked on projects with the same standard of writing.
In a recent conversation with Collider, Daddario recalls the one line from Texas Chainsaw 3D which she tried to have taken out of the movie. Which line? If you have any memory of the film, then I’m betting you remember…
Here’s what she said to say on the subject:
I wanted to cut the line, ‘Do your thing, cuz.’ Do you remember that line where I say, ‘Do your thing, cuz,’ and then throw him the chainsaw? And the producer was like, ‘This is the movie,’ you know? And so I think that that’s just what the movie is. It’s supposed to be silly and the audience is supposed to laugh and be scared and whatever. But when you ask why, there’s plenty of movies that I don’t know why! Maybe no one knows what they’re doing. I have no idea!
But unlike other big stars who got their breaks after starring in a horror legacy installment (looking at you Rooney Mara), Alexandra Daddario seems grateful for the Texas Chainsaw 3D experience.
She explains:
I hadn’t been working leading up to that film. My partner was working and I didn’t know a lot of people in LA. I was young and I was having trouble getting work, and I was very excited to book the job and be working. I was of a certain age where going off with a bunch of people your age and working was very exciting.
While the talented actor may be polite on the subject, she still shares the cold hard truth about the more glaring problems with Texas Chainsaw 3D. I mean, it’s not like we weren’t already aware. When pressed as to why the project wasn’t creatively successful, she had some interesting insight into the situation.
Here’s what she had to share:
There were a lot of challenges on that project like there are on every project by the way, but it taught me about what happens when things go wrong, what happens when things go right, why did they go wrong, why shouldn’t they have happened, how does the studio get involved when something goes wrong, how studios interact with projects. Again, it was just a learning experience for me coming off of Percy Jackson and I think I had done Hall Pass before that … but projects where there were issues, certainly, because there’s issues on everything, but these were more severe. But that, again, things go wrong. You can learn a lot from mistakes.
What class act. You can catch Alexandra Daddario in The White Lotus and her action comedy Die In A Gunfight. But seriously, she’s excellent in The White Lotus. You gotta check it out.
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