Back then, she lived to tell the tale—but in 1998, Michael finally caught up to her in the memorable opening sequence to Halloween: H20, when her chain-smoking, wisecracking character finally had a fateful encounter with his butcher knife.
As a bit of a Halloween head myself, I was delighted when she turned up again in Halloween Kills, the second film in David Gordon Green’s new trilogy, which ignores the events of all Halloween films except the original.
So I said, “If we’re going to talk, you’re going to have to come to me.” So he came over, and I said, “But David, I’m dead.
And I loved the gestalt of this movie, that he was doing this contemporary group therapy PTSD with those that survived Halloween and weren’t crazy people by now.
You know I’m available.” And I think it’s important to say—and I’ve texted David about this—I so appreciate the safety that staff had around guns.
I’ve got a job.” You’re a young actor, and I always did guest parts and things, but this seemed like it was going to be different.
So his agent at the time said, “I’ve got the guy to direct it.” A lot of people erroneously think that Rick and I met on Halloween II, but we didn’t.
When H2O came along, it seemed a little ridiculous to me, but I thought, “Why not?” By that time I was appreciating the franchise a little bit more.
And it’s like, “I don’t know, Shannon.” She said, “You should.” And so she’s been interpreting things—like a lot of people, if they look at a picture, they put “queen.” I didn’t know that’s the iconic high praise.
Well, who has time for all of this? That was so amazing to me, is that people, I post something, and—oh, here you are.
And then it’s a picture of me from the 1978 Halloween, where I’m just being lambasted in the car, and I said “Marion is in danger, and so is our Constitution.
I had never been, I just thought, ”This is kind of crazy.” And Jamie Lee called and said, “I’m doing one.” It was to support a children’s hospital in Los Angeles.
You know, when you see three generations—the grandma is coming with her married daughter and their 6-year-old—I’m most shocked that the 6-year-old has seen Halloween, but the fans are just very loving.
If you follow me, if you go to my Instagram, you’ll see a picture of us at the premiere.
It’s like, “Why weren’t you listening 20 years ago?” So here we are at such a phenomenal crisis.