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Betsy Palmer is well known for her portrayal of
1982's horror movie, Friday the 13th as Pamela Voorhees, the troubled killer and mother to Jason Voorhees
Pamela at first didn't want to even think of the idea of doing a slasher movie, in an interview power recalled reading the script for
The first time saying that it was a piece of junk and that nobody was ever gonna watch it
Palmer signed up though, she only signed due need for a new car, after her Mercedes broke down.
After the movie the actress got a new Volkswagen, she was lured into
Acting in the movie with the promise of a handy
$1,000 a day fee even though Betsy Palmer passed away at the age 88 in Danbury, Connecticut, United States
May 29th, 2015.
you will always be remembered as Pamela Voorhees
Thanks for watching because this is a first episode of facts for Friday The 13th I'll include extra story about how Palmer
accidentally made Adrienne King Cry
In the same interview from 2004 Palmer recalled the scene and where her character slaps Alice played by Adrienne King
She said in the interview that
She told Alice that at night
They should rehearse the scene because in Palmers words, "On Stage When You Slap Someone, You Slap Them
Palmer actually thought that when you act in a movie
And you act to slap someone, that you actually slap someone
The Director Though, later cleared the air about this, saying that when you go to slap someone
in the movies while acting you miss the slap instead of actually slapping them