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‘Friday the 13th’ Star Adrienne King Reveals She’s Hiding in ‘Ghostbusters’ as an Uncredited Stuntwoman
You won’t even find it on her IMDb resume, but Friday the 13th‘s Alice, Adrienne King, played a stunt woman in 1984’s Ghostbusters, the actress revealed this week!
In a post on her Facebook page, King revealed the never-before-told story.
“Here’s a little known trivia fact.. I was hired onto GHOSTBUSTERS as a stuntwoman for 2 weeks,” King wrote. “This was after Friday the 13th 1 and 2. I needed to make $$ for my Screen Actors Guild in order to keep my health insurance and I wasn’t interested in ON-Camera work for obvious reasons.”
She continued, “My dear friend Tony Farentino introduced me to Cliff Cudney who was the Stunt Coordinator on the movie. He asked if I’d done any stunt work before. I remember answering “not officially.. but I did all my own stunts for Friday the 13th!” He laughed & said “You’re hired!! You survived F13! You’re officially a Stunt woman in my book!! And I made more $$ from Ghostbusters than all my F13 residuals combined..!! CHEERS!!”
So where can you spot King in the movie?
“All over the place,” she wrote in a reply comment on her Facebook post. “Jumping out of the way of the crazy taxi cab..Central Park West..downtown..you name it.”
Keep your eyes peeled next time you watch!
If you want to watch a fun movie, watch a Ryuhei Kitamura movie. Whether it’s 2000’s Versus, 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars, 2008’s The Midnight Meat Train or 2022’s underseen The Price We Pay, Kitamura always knows how to deliver a wild and crazy good time.
Up next from Ryuhei Kitamura? Deadline reports that he’ll be directing Thrill Ride, which sounds a bit like the best parts of Final Destination 3… expanded into a feature film!
Deadline details, “the English-language film will tell the story of a group of people, including two young women, who are trapped upside down on a roller coaster taken over by a mysterious saboteur threatening to drop them all one-by-one to their deaths.”
Film Bridge International is launching the project for sales ahead of the Cannes market.
Chad Law and Christopher Jolley wrote the screenplay.
“Thrill Ride is exactly the type of high-concept based thriller that our customers are looking for in the marketplace,” said Film Bridge’s Ellen Wander and Jordan Dykstra. “With Ryuhei at the helm, we know his vision and execution will deliver thrills of the highest quality.”
“As a hardcore rollercoaster fan since I was young, I immediately fell in love with this script filled with suspense, action, crazy ups and downs, turns, loops, and corkscrews at maximum speed,” adds Kitamura. “I can’t wait to get on a ride and bring life to the wildest rollercoaster imaginable.”
We’re already seated. Stay tuned for more on Thrill Ride as we learn it.
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