Jamie Lee Curtis is through with Halloween production. All three films are finished with one still not released in theaters. While Jamie Lee Curtis was out doing Q and A for Halloween, Curtis explained her interest in doing some voice acting for Blumhouses upcoming The Exorcist trilogy.
“Maybe I should be the voice of the devil-like Mercedes McCambridge,” she said. You see, if David Gordon Green gives me a part in the new Exorcist trilogy as the voice of the devil, then it’sa full-circle return for me, in a meta way,” Curtis said excitedly pointing to the very meta fact that The Exorcist is what made her afraid of – and made her fall in love with horror movies in her youth.
Of course, McCambridge is notorious for her voice work in The Exorcist. The western movie actress made it clear that she wanted to dig deep and do the work in solitude. McCambridge already an alcoholic further pushed those demons during her recording. She would chain smoke entire pack after pack of cigarettes all chased down with straight rye whiskey. After that, she would scream guttural terror. Just enough to give her a terrifying natural growling rasp to her voice. This is the voice that we came to know as Regan MacNeil in William Friedkin’s The Exorcist.
Of course, Curtis knows her horror to bring up McCambridge. And if she is willing to throw her name into the ring alongside McCambridge it must mean that she is willing to go the distance and put in some insanely artful work to get Pazuzu demon’s voice just right.
While attending a special advanced screening of Halloween Kills, Curtis admitted after the film was over that she had done the voice of the crying baby in Halloween Kills. Everyone thought she was joking so she did the baby cry voice and it was very unsettling and hilarious. However, thinking back to that I feel like she would be perfect for coming up with some off-the-wall demonic shit.
So, we need to put together a petition to make Jason Blum and David Gordon Green do the right thing and get Jamie Lee Curtis to perform the voice of Pazuzu in the upcoming Exorcist films.
Which one of you is going to put that petition together? Cause, I’ll be sure to sign it.
Also, I managed to find a clip of Curtis doing the very unsettling baby cry that she did for a baby that is crying in its crib during Michael Myer’s door-to-door slash-a-thon. Once again if she can do this, I bet she could conjure up some wicked stuff for the devil.