Marley Shelton and the Babysitter Twins
Rose McGowan is getting all the attention for Grindhouse's Planet Terror segment because she's the chick with the gun on her leg, but Marley Shelton plays a pretty outrageous character too. Injected by a paralyzing agent in her hands, she spends the whole movie trying to escape from monsters and an abusive husband without the use of her hands.
Shelton Outrageous In Planet Terror
"This guy has the wackiest imagination," Shelton said. "It was all in the script, you know? We tweaked little dialogue things here and there but it’s really like amazing, especially seeing the film finally and seeing the balance of melodrama, humor, scary moments, bloody, gutty, gross moments, how he balanced it all because I think the movie really plays."
She actually got good at functioning without fingers. "Really what you quickly realize is that it’s all about the elbows. You can kind of see it in the cut where I’m trying to get Tony to leave and he wants to take all of his animals with him. He drops his backpack and I pick up the backpack with my elbows. I’m like, ‘Come on! You’ve got to go!’ That’s how you see that shot where my hands are literally up here. And I have to use my elbows to drive."
Still, doing the hands was nothing compared to McGowan's special effect. "I felt really bad for her. She had to wear a green cast so that she couldn’t move her leg. It had to be really uncomfortable in the Texas heat. We were shooting in the dead of summer. It was pretty rough, but there was a lot of camaraderie."
Shelton's character, Dakota, is a doctor trying to leave her husband for her female lover when this monstrous outbreak ensues. As opposed to McGowan's kick ass stripper character, Shelton played a different reference.
"Everything in this film was down literally on the fly. I kind of modeled Dakota after the classic Hitchcock ice queen blonde, at least in the beginning. Sort of this exacting, very precise, disconnected, sort of cold and very efficient person who’s very doctorly. And then as the night unfurls she unfurls, and because her hands, which she uses as a doctor, are rendered useless she’s forced to resort to getting in touch with her primal self. She has to become a survivalist."
Dakota also appears in Death Proof, in a brief scene where another character ends up at the same hospital. "Quentin spent so much time on Planet Terror and we shot both movies at Troublemaker, which is Robert’s permanent soundstage/home. So we used pretty much the same crew on both except for some changes. So at that point it was like one big happy family."
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