Revered on stage and screen for decades, Alice Krige has starred in a lot of horror movies.
But theChariots of Fireactress just doesn’t see it like that.
“I don’t ever think of ‘horror,'” says Krige.
Alice Krige in ‘She Will’.IFC Midnight
This extraordinary alchemical reaction happens, and she is infused with their spirit."
The film’s cast also includesMalcolm McDowellandRupert Everett.
It was just wonderful.
He’s very funny.
Krige talks more about her life in horror, below.
Ghost Story (1981)
“We were shooting in Woodstock, New York.
Wonderfully, I got to work with Fred Astaire, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Melvyn Douglas and John Houseman.
They were gallant, utterly professional, funny, kind.
The ideal role models for someone starting out.
It was very shocking, but you just have to do it, so I did it.
Interestingly, it has become a cult movie, which is really wonderful and very gratifying.”
When that penny dropped, I thought,okay, I get it.
We had a great time.
I’m still in touch with Mick, who was a delightful soul."
It was very difficult.
She’d check up on my husband and the other dogs, but essentially she was waiting for me.
And the last two weeks ofSilent Hill, we were just in that church burning people.
By the time I was dropped at the gate, Skipper was there, wagging her whole body.
She would have nothing to do with me.
I could not shake that profoundly dark energy field.
It never happened to me before and I hope it never happens again."
Gretel & Hansel (2020)
“The joy of language like that on film!
It’s very rare that one is given language that rich and delicious.
We were filming just outside Dublin in beautiful woodlands I mean ravishingly beautiful in the autumn.
And when that happens, it’s just marvelous.”
I’d never seen it.
I watched it just before speaking to David Blue Garcia [director of the 2022 update].
I said to him, ‘I’m blown away by how actually really good the movie is.
Is that what we’re planning?’
And he said, ‘Ah, welcome to the 21st century.
There will beoceansof blood and limbs flying in every direction.’
And, yes, there was.
I am very glad that I was dead before all of that happened.
But I felt for my character, I really did.
I felthugeempathy for her.
That was just two scenes, but she meant a lot to me."
She Will (2022)
“We were shooting on the side of a very pointy mountainside.
[Laughs] We all wound up with one leg longer or shorter than the other.
We really were at an incline most of the time.
But it’s fabulous.
The sequences where Veronica shifts into another dimension, I was very scantily-clad.
The power of the landscape becomes a potent force in the film itself.”
She Willis now available to watch in theaters and on VOD/digital and will launch on Shudder October 14.
Watch the film’s trailer above and exclusively see a clip from the film below.
