The skeletons were real, but the weed was not. Forty years later, JoBeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson share the strange, true stories from the set of ‘Poltergeist’:
to publicly credit him for his work, thanking him for allowing a “unique creative partnership” and for his “openness.”
“I hadn't read that many movie scripts,” Williams says now. “I loved the story. I loved the family connection. And when it came to descriptions of the effects and that kind of stuff, I just skimmed over that. There was this one line that says: ‘Diane falls into a muddy swimming pool with skeletons.’ And I just passed over that. I didn’t even notice it.”©1982 Turner Entertainment Co.
“I'd have to scream and I'd think, ‘Oh God, I don't want to get this water in my mouth because I'm sure I'll get terrible diseases,’” Williams says.Neither Williams or Nelson spoke about eerie feelings or supernatural happenings on the set. They were more unsettled by tangible dangers, like the array of electricity that rimmed the pool full of corpses., which are about 16-feet in diameter,” Williams says.
In the movie, Steve and Diane are still in love, respectful but playful with one another, and secretly smoke marijuana together in their bedroom after the children are tucked in—a scene that scandalized generations of kid viewers who had no idea moms and dads did such things. A lot of that bedroom playfulness was improvised.“Craig was a comedy writer at one time. In fact, I think he did stand-up too in his early days.
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