There’s a moment when their two children are performing in the school pageant – and they do a horrifying sword fight – with spurting blood packets – so that the audience is sprayed with blood from wounds in their necks, arms, legs, etc.<\/p>\n
You keep getting shots of the horrified audience, sitting in stunned silence, as the two children on stage stab the crap out of one another, staggering around to their deaths.<\/p>\n
Then they cut to Morticia and Gomez, the delicious Anjelica Huston and the even more delicious Raul Julia, and they are clutching one another’s arms in beaming parental pride. Anjelica’s eyes are all soft and loving, Raul’s eyes are proud and fatherly. <\/p>\n
Five minutes earlier, when the rest of the school is performing “Getting to Know You” and they’re all wearing little flower hats, and doing a cute little school-play dance … they cut to Morticia and Gomez, and the two of them are barely containing their contempt. They sit there, with completely dead bored eyes, watching the happy little-kid choreography, Raul Julia squirms around in his seat at one point, like he just can’t stand another minute of it. He’s wearing a pinstripe suit – he looks fantastic … and then they keep cutting back to what’s going up on the stage – which, to anyone who is NOT an Addams family member – would look happy and joyful and innocent. But Morticia and Gomez find it disgusting.<\/p>\n
Anjelica Huston came and talked at my school. She was just as you would imagine: warm, funny, confident, and deep. She’s a thoughtful woman. She really thought about her answers, she really spoke with us … she was lovely.<\/p>\n
She was asked about creating Morticia – how she did it, what she “used”, etc.<\/p>\n
I loved her answer. She said, “Actually, I based that entire character on one of my best friends Jerry Hall.” Someone asked her to elaborate on this – and Anjelica started laughing, and she said, “Jerry is the happiest most self-satisfied woman I have ever met. It’s not a pose, or an act, or bullshit. She’s wonderful to be with, because she’s always so positive. You call her, and you’re like, ‘How are you?’ and Jerry says -‘” Anjelica made her voice soft, mellifluous, floaty: ” ‘I’m so happy, I’m doing so well, the kids are beautiful, I love them, I just love being alive so much.'”<\/p>\n
How inventive. I love that. Morticia does radiate self-satisfaction.<\/p>\n
It’s hysterical. Very very specific.<\/p>\n
And I just can’t say enough good stuff about Raul Julia. I still miss that guy.<\/p>\n
Morticia and Gomez sit by the grave, re-living the first time they met. Passion BUBBLES between them. They are SMOULDERING WITH PASSION.<\/p>\n
She says, nostalgically: “A boy …”<\/p>\n
He grasps her hand smoulderingly, and says, “A girl …”<\/p>\n
She says, awash with gentle memories, “An open grave ….”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There’s a moment when their two children are performing in the school pageant – and they do a horrifying sword fight – with spurting blood packets – so that the audience is sprayed with blood from wounds in their necks, … Continue reading