Another actress from John Carpenter’s original Halloween movie is returning for director David Gordon Green’s Halloween Kills. HalloweenMovies.com is reporting that actress Nancy Stephens will reprise her role as Nurse Marion.
This won’t be the first time she returns to the franchise. She also appeared in the original Halloween II and 1998’s Halloween H20. There are no details on how the character will be utilized in the story, but Jamie Lee Curtis, who is reprising her role as Laurie Strode, previously explained that these next two sequels are going to “unpack the first movie” and will examine the “cultural phenomenon of violence” as well as trauma.
“What I love that David and [co-writer] Danny [McBride] and company did is they connected the dots for forty years, now they’re going back to really unpack the first movie, bringing back all those characters whose lives were affected by what happened in 1978.”
I imagine that she will be one of the characters who’s life as been affected along with the other returning characters such as Lindsey Wallace, who will be played by original actress Kyle Richards; Tommy Doyle, who will be played by Anthony Michael Hall; and Lonnie Elam, who is being played by Robert Longstreet. Curtis goes on to explain:
“The ass-kicking part is the fan-favorite part, but from my standpoint, I didn’t go into it because I got to kick Michael’s bottom. I was particularly drawn because it was a movie about trauma. We have horror movies that are horrific and we have these horrific events take place, but we leave the movie theater and then we complain that the dishwasher doesn’t work. The trauma that occurs for these character for forty years, I felt was very important that David understood that and was really giving Laurie great honor to acknowledge that her experience of her life was very challenged.”
She then adds:
“And then kick his ass. And then you realize that it, in fact, was all like a spider’s web, but in order to go to the spider’s web, you also had to see the fragile person. And I was grateful that that was the angel. I think that if from the opening section I was kicking butt, it wouldn’t have had the emotional reaction that people actually had.”
Judy Greer and Andi Matichak are also set to reprise their roles in the next two Halloween sequels. Michael Myers actors Nick Castle and James Jude Courtney will also come back to their shared role. Universal and Blumhouse will release Halloween Kills on October 16, 2020 and Halloween Ends follows one year later on October 15, 2021.