His Name Was Jason: 30 Years Of Friday The 13th Page #7

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And as a result,

they get rewarded

by being able

to live through it.

lt was usually the outcast.

lt was usually the good girl,

the one who didn't smoke pot,

who didn't have premarital sex.

She was always the one

who was able to take him on.

And l think that goes back

to the most primitive storytelling

of just good versus evil.

The archetypes for them are

the innocent girl next door.

l never felt like a victim.

As a matter of fact,

l felt very empowered by the role.

The women were stronger

in this film than the guys were.

She's a typical, regular gal.

She's like any teenager

or young adult trying

to figure out what they

wanna do with their life.

She didn't run with the pack

and she was different.

But that didn't mean

she was virtuous.

lt just meant she thought things

through differently.

l would love the opportunity

to come back.

lt's so much more satisfying

to watch a woman

destroy this tremendous evil.

Amy Steel, she was just so adorable.

She was so girl-next-doorish.

She would probably be

my all-time favorite ''Friday'' girl.

To know that l did one

of these films

where they get all these women in

that are so vulnerable

and to be the one that

people think was strong

and intelligent is just--

it feels good.

Ginny was written

in a more multidimensional

kind of way.

And there was something a little bit

separate about her than everybody.

She didn't need a group

of people around her.

She was strong enough

to stand on her own.

She wanted to figure it out.

Well, what would it be like today?

Some kind of

out-of-control psychopath?

A frightened retard?

A child trapped

in a man's body?

l think my favorite personally

was Lar Park-Lincoln in ''Part Vll.''

Just the ability

to come in with the mind

and to manipulate Jason like she did--

l mean, she was equal.

Roday:
The genius convention

of adding a character

with telekinesis

to give Jason

a new sort of foil

in the final battle

was pretty fantastic.

One thing that l didn't want

to do is l didn't want

to play a psychic, or someone

who felt they had telekinetic abilities,

like they were someone

going into a stroke

and doing some

cartoonish version

of what

she was dealing with.

Lar Park-Lincoln as Tina,

she's classic.

lt was a different take

on the story.

That character gave it

a great brawl.

Park-Lincoln:
She didn't back down.

She never really ran from him.

She chased him.

And we had that great street scene

where she goes right up

to him-- l love the twigs

coming around his legs

and taking him down

that way.

The most worthy opponents

of Jason

from the movies that l did--

certainly Tina has to be there,

because she created

the most damage

to Jason and survived.

They also started a trend where like

the surviving girl's ''love interest''

started making it through

as well.

l'm honored that l was a survivor.

lf Jason wanted

to bring it on again,

l'd come back.

l would love

to tackle her again.

Although l think l would do it

with better hair serum.

So my hair

wouldn't be as frizzy

as it was throughout

the entire shooting of that film.

l think of the whole series,

l think Tommy Jarvis is probably one

of Jason's biggest adversaries.

Jason, don't you remember?

Remember, Jason?

Zito:

Tommy's an outsider, like Jason.

Tommy's a kid

that doesn't fit in.

So there is a relationship

between Tommy and Jason

when Tommy takes on

the persona and impersonates him

as a weapon to undo him.

l would love to have gone up

against Corey Feldman

just 'cause l'd like

to squeeze his head until it pops.

Tommy had a very unique

relationship to Jason

because at least at the end

of ''Part 5,'' he actually

looks like he will become

the next Jason.

ln ''Part 4,'' which Corey Feldman

played so beautifully,

he ends up

in an insane asylum.

ls he monster or victim?

Well, he's a little bit of both.

He just wants to kill everybody.

He didn't get me though.

l ran him over with a tractor--

one of the very few brothers

that survived

the ''Friday the 1 3th'' series,

by the way.

They wanted

to kill me off in ''Part Vl,''

but we said,

''Nope, not doing that to us.''

( screams )

John LeMay's character--

another good one

because we had

a hell of a fight.

l did put up

a pretty good fight.

The electricity's going off

everywhere,

and l'm just breathing heavy

and sweating a lot

and smacking the hell out

of him. lt was fun,

but surviving Jason is an honor.

ln my obituary,

it'll say ''John survived Jason,

but could not survive life.''

Daggett:
Rennie had

a special connection to Jason

because l think her evil uncle

was trying to teach her how

to swim when she was a little girl.

Peter Mark Richman:

l tossed her in the water,

which was a not-very-nice thing

to do for an uncle.

And she had

an inordinate fear

of drowning.

And she saw Jason

under the water.

( screaming )

l felt very empowered

playing the part, especially at the end

when l was the only one surviving

and there we were in the sewers.

And l felt like,

''All right,

this is a nice, tough,

accurate portrayal

of a girl's strength.''

You didn't get me in the lake,

and you're not

gonna get me now!

l would probably go back

and do another ''Friday the 1 3th.''

lf nothing else,

then just to make my boys happy.

Women in ''Friday the 1 3th'' movies

are always strong.

You know, they're strong characters.

And we wanted

to be true to that.

So Todd and l came up

with this idea of this robot

and making the robot female.

One of the most delightful things

about her

is like just unstoppable,

unflappable.

l feel very privileged in that

l got to survive that movie.

Even though he knocked

my block off and l was a head--

l was a talking head

for, l think, the last third

of the movie--

l feel like one

of the lucky ones.

l think most of the people

that have survived

have been women

because all of us directors

have a tremendous

amount of guilt

for what we've done

to all of these poor girls

in the movies.

l do think that the heroines

have a strength that's there,

but a real vulnerability

that attracts people.

People wanna love you

and they wanna cheer for you.

Steel:

lf they were to ask me

to do sort of

the ''Friday the 1 3th'' survivors--

gonna take on Jason--

would l do it?

Hell yeah!

Wouldn't it be great

if the strong women

of the series came back

and took him on?

lt would be great-- so maybe

Adrienne and Lar and myself.

l think that it would be very interesting if

you had a triad

of the girls,

where you would have the powers,

an extremely strong one

and just a ballsy character.

lt would be a dream movie for the fans.

And l think we could still pull it off.

We still have a couple

of good years in us.

Jason? Where's Jason?!

We took care of him.

( siren wails )

( whimpers )

Please please

please, help me.

( girl screaming )

Yeah, bad luck

sure can be bloody.

lt's not just the victims

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