European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                R actress Spacek Shelley Duvall in scene from 3 i had to be the girl from outer the Beauty of acting is that youre Able to by Jeanclaude Bouis associated press Issy the Freaky Star of Carrie and one i of he women in Robert Allman latest 3 says people never took her seriously be cause of her girlish v not so much but in the people Felt protective about didst take what i said Seri i the kid was piping says the 27year void who was named Best actress of 1976 by the National society of film my High school Days were nothing like she says of her portrayal of a naive child who unleashes Fiercy revenge on the classmates who humiliate her at the senior that role in Brianda Palmas gothic thriller got her nominated for an Academy award for Best in a recent interview she also talked about her roots in a Small Texas town and her Hopes to someday direct her own in 3 a heavily symbolic allegory which  Attman says was inspired by a Shes Pinky a girl from tens who seems to have no seme of her own she eventually assumes the personality of her Roommate at a singles apartment Millie ammo played by 9klley the hardest thing for me was that my character was undefined i had to i had to be we shot in so my characters evolution depended entirely on How Shelley i had to wait to see what Shelley was going to said who adds that the film was shot from an not from a the two women meet at a California desert rehabilitation Center for the elderly where they and the child uninhibited Pinky becomes More and More like the vacuous a Fine example of eth Ethid woman of the Willie a mysteriously pregnant artist who paints grotesque murals in empty swimming Pool Sis played by Janice Bob Shelley and i were backboards for each other if someone else had played Shelley s my part would have been totally we were filling up each others spaces if Shelley were not a Good it would have been but she is Spacek said she and Duvall had Long discussions with Altman about the possible meanings of 3 ask him what the film hell Tell you what it Means to him but not what it Means to he said the worst thing you Ean do is Tell people what its he refuses to make choices for o Spacek unleashes her evil Powers in june 1977 Lead and that the most exciting thing about his Spacek Spike with sweeping gestures and a staccato delivery accented by a Texas Ive been real because rather than bind my accent has helped said Spacek her Given name Ismary who grew up in population Miles Northeast of Slie said she and her Jack the Art director of Carrie and tar Renic Salicks badlands recently brought some property near land i grew up kept horses and i have Routs in new where i lived for six and roots in where i found a kind of to keep one step ahead of teetering on an Edge despite critics who Point out that All of her roles have been too offbeat and and that her Gir lishness and Texas twang Are too Spacek says Shes not concerned about being any Lime you play a if you do it you might be typed As but the Beauty of acting is that youre Able to to experience things outside or your own life and really feel so 1 always go for characters that i can connect with on the first Reading of the but that also arc going to help me find a new place in its not just the project and the its the i i always wanted very badly to work with these i it also happens that there All a Little too and she said that while her plans to turn to direct ing Are still she admits that her ideas Are marked by her work with those Salicks influence is that the dialogue is so and theres a dryness to in badlands in which she plays a amoral based on caril Ann the companion of mass murderer Charles Stark weather theres a panoramic sense in the scenes and theres a like a Brian de Palmas had an incredible effect on his rhythm of like a roue coaster goes from funny to traumatic she and while her portrayal in came May seem Loo Freaky and she says weve All Felt those visually it was very very very dramatic but Ine emotions were very and that what people connected the stars and stripes Page 13