The terrifying reason "Friday 13" The star Adrienne King asked to be killed

A real frightening situation made the actor chose to leave the horror franchise.


Today is the rare month of Halloween on Friday the 13th, which gave horror fans double the reason to watch a scary classic tonight - in particular, one of the films of the Friday 13 franchise. The series started in 1980 with the release of the first film and continued for 12 films in total, with the most recent remake - a remake of the original - elected in 2009. The first Friday 13 vex Adrienne King As Alice Hardy, the camp advisor who was able to survive the killer Pamela Voorhees ( Betsy Palmer ). With his role, King has become one of the most emblematic "finals" in the history of horror film, but when his fate in the second film, 1981 Friday 13 part 2 , was revealed, viewers were shocked.

It turned out that King asked to be killed in the second film because of something scary that was going on in his real life. Read the rest to find out more about his terrifying off -screen test.

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King was hunted.

Adrienne King in
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In an interview of 2015 with UProxx, King opened to be hunted down at the time that Friday 13 has been freed. She said the harasser followed her from New York to Los Angeles in London. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"For a year and a half, we didn't know who the harasser was," said King. "You must remember that there were no video cameras, no security cameras around, no mobile phones. I would get very bizarre things. I would get polaroids under my door of my door What I had done the day before or the night before in a Chinese or Italian menu. "

She added that the person was starting to track her because he reminded him of someone else.

"The guy was not a" horror fan ". He had just seen the film with friends, because everyone saw him," said King. "And when we finally understood who it was, it had nothing to do with the fact that I was living or died or anything. It had to see with the fact that I reminded him of someone in His past that had done him something horrible. Weird. Very strange. "

King said his complaints to the authorities concerning the harasser had not been taken seriously. "The cops said:" Well, what would you expect? Watch the film you made "", she recalls.

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She asked to be killed in the second film.

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Because she was still dealing with the harassment situation, King did not want to sue a major role in the Friday 13 Continue, which was published a year after the original. Instead, she asked that her character be killed. (However, King said that his character did not do it technically Die, because Alice's death was shown as part of a nightmare.)

"The reason for which my character is dead was, we had a meeting on this subject, because when Part 2 had come, a stalker was already present in my world, "she told UProxx." I couldn't manage another film and face what no one else seemed to want to manage. It was worse because we didn't know who the harasser was and he was removed and this person was so brilliant. Haralers can be shiny, they can have a lot of money and they can have a lot of politically contacts. ""

King ended up being accepted at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, which turned out to be an escape. She also focused more and more on her visual art, which, according to her, became "very, very dark" because of her situation at the time.

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King found healing through horror fans.

After a year and a half, King's Stalker was arrested. She found that it was too difficult to return to the screen because of the anxiety she had experienced, and she went to therapy to work on overcoming her trauma. She did not start acting on the screen before 2010.

King told UPROXX that the link with horror moviegoers in conventions had helped his healing, in particular after attending his first convention in 2004.

"A huge convention and there must have been 800 people in the public, my first question for questions and answers to the panel was: 'Why did you leave Part 2 ? Why did you let them kill you? "", Did she say. "It is at this stage when I told them the story in a word, I did not shoot it, but enough to let them know that I had not left them. Honestly, not a drought in the audience. And we are talking about big guys from Harley Davidson, tattooed. They came to me afterwards and said, "I want you to take my number and if someone never bothers you, you tell me. I have in Make two FBI agents on my speed dial. Serious fans. And that's what healed this little piece of my heart that still needed healing that I didn't even know healing. "

She joins the Friday 13 franchise.

In 2021, King resumed his character from Alice Hardy Jason Rising: a film of Friday 13 fans . Now she is about to officially join the franchise. King was thrown into Crystal lake , a next Friday 13 Prequelle series which will broadcast on Peacock. (Crystal Lake is the name of the camp in the film franchise.) We do not know what role she will play.

In January 2023, King posted a photo of her In a canoe on a lake on Instagram - echo at the last moments of the 1980 film - and I wrote: "I am so excited to return to Crystal Lake! There is so much that I want me to share with you Regarding the new series but you should just be patient. So it's worth waiting! "

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