.missjudygreer breaks down 'Jawbreaker' and talks about the notes people still pass her all these years later
Something was happening in the late 1990s. The New Queer Cinema wave that blossomed in the first half of the decade had changed the DNA of even mainstream genre films: Gay screenwriters were flourishing with Kevin Williamson’s Scream, Don Mancini’s more queered Child’s Play entry Bride of Chucky, and Silvio Horta’s Urban Legend. And just on the outskirts was Darren Stein’s blackhearted horror-comedy Jawbreaker.
And I was like, Well, hold on a minute. I’m thinking of myself as this serious actress who just graduated from acting school. So I need to read the script before I decide if I’m going to accept this role. And they were like, “Oh yeah, no, totally. You should read the script, but we’re gonna cast you.
How much is that you working on your own and sort of building these different personalities, these distinct personalities, and how much of that was you working with Darren? There’s something so visceral about this sort of abandon with which you play Fern as this girl starstruck by Liz Purr. Obviously you want the character to feel authentic; was there a Liz Purr that you could connect in a through-line to your own life, bringing that to Fern to make that resonate so hard with people?
It was kind of everything. It was like the clothes and the blonde hair. It was just so girly and trying so hard to sell it. And even though everybody knows you on set, you do get treated differently by the crew, by the other actors, when you look a certain way. There’s just a difference. And when you’re Vylette, you get to wear high heels. I was towering over all of them and that just made me have more presence.
Darren, just screaming with laughter, like laughing so hard that at a point I’m like, “Stop it,” like, “Stop laughing at me! This is uncomfortable for me! I don’t do this naturally!” And he was like, “Sorry, sorry, I’m sorry,” but he just was so excited. It was just everything he wanted. But also I was really stressed out because I couldn’t drive the car because it was a stick shift.
That was not a great day. I think all of us could have used a few more rehearsals ahead of time. Looking back, seeing that scene and seeing like memes of it and stuff — it was so good. But I was probably my most nervous of all the days at work because I knew I had to give it back. I knew I had to come back at her level. I knew Judy had to give it back to Rose as much as I knew that Vylette had to give it back to Courtney. And I was so scared I wasn’t going to be able to match her.
I mean, no one loved that more than Rose McGowan. She was like the queen, like walking down that hallway was —I just had to watch her. I was like, I’ll just do what Rose does, because she is working the runway. It was amazing to watch her and the hair flip.
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