Williams, and Joshua Leonard-who hike into the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland, in 1994 to film a documentary about a local legend known as the Blair Witch. It is a fictional story of three student filmmakers- Heather Donahue, Michael C. I wouldn’t have chosen to have the role, but I was the best, cheapest person for the job.The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 American supernatural horror film written, directed and edited by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez. "Only out of budgetary and time restriction reasons. "I have a small cameo in The High Country," she allowed.
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The series even coaxed her out of retirement for a brief performance. ( She covered that story in more detail in her 2012 memoir GrowGirl.) The pilot for The High Country has already been shot, and Donahue has written twelve more scripts.
You had to toe a certain line."Īnd while Donahue has no interest in returning to acting-"I don't want to be a visible, public person," she insists-she continues to immerse herself in the film industry as the producer and writer of The High Country, an independently produced sitcom based on her post- Blair experiences as a marijuana farmer. And even in 1999, you weren’t allowed to do that. Jennifer Lawrence is a real woman, who says shit that she actually thinks.
You have Jennifer… what’s her name, the Hunger Games Jennifer? Sorry, I live in the woods. I think the age of television that we're in has been enormous for changing the medium's hostility to women. They're creating their own roles all the time. "They can actually be the complex human beings they are. "There are more female creators, and women are allowed to have emotions that go beyond gentle smiles," she said. Today, Donahue is heartened by the changes in the industry since The Blair Witch Project hit theaters in 1999. "That those kids are actually dead, and Josh, Mike, and I were hired so they could get away with releasing it as a film." "There are still people who think that me, Mike, and Josh are actors that were hired to cover up that The Blair Witch Project was actually a snuff film," she marvels.
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And all along, that revolutionary marketing had worked a little too well in the midst of the ongoing debate over whether the events of the movie had actually happened, her mother received a sympathy card from a distant relative who believed The Blair Witch Project was real.
She "won" Worst Actress at the Razzie Awards-a ridiculous sham of an anti-Oscars ceremony, but an experience she says "still sucked" as a young actress who felt totally unprepared for how enormous the movie had become. But what you get for that is, 'Oh, that annoying bitch wouldn't turn the camera off.'"Īs the enthusiasm over The Blair Witch Project's uniqueness curdled into irritation at its cultural ubiquity, people began turning on the movie-and Donahue, whose face had become the lynchpin of the marketing campaign, endured much of the backlash. Find me the woman who would have believably kept that camera running. "I feel incredibly proud of my work in that movie creatively," she says. The problem, as it turned out, was that the verisimilitude required to sell the performance made it hard for a portion of the audience to separate Heather Donahue the Actress from Heather Donahue the Character-and more to the point, made it hard for a potion of the audience to appreciate how much work Donahue had put into crafting a protagonist so obsessed with chronicling the Blair Witch that she wouldn't turn the camera off. But we're like war buddies now, you know? We've come through this experience together." We were cast because there was inherent conflict in the group. "We weren't cast because we'd be lifelong friends. "We were cast, I think, because the three of us are so different," she said. (Of the three stars of The Blair Witch Project, only Leonard is still a working actor Williams is now a middle-school guidance counselor.) Though they weren't particularly friendly at the time, they've come to bond over their strange shared experience in the years since. Donahue's mother received a sympathy card from a distant relative who believed The Blair Witch Project was real.ĭonahue was cast in the movie that would eventually be titled The Blair Witch Project opposite Joshua Leonard and Michael Williams, two similarly unknown and similarly committed actors.
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