Christine Taylor Says ‘The Craft’ Villain Was Impressed by Marcia Brady (Unique)

The Craft is again.

Christine Taylor opened up solely to PEOPLE on Saturday, March 29, at 90s Con on the Connecticut Conference Heart in Hartford, Conn., about her villainous function as Laura Lizzie in The Craft — and its sudden connection to her function as Marcia Brady in 1995’s The Brady Bunch Film.

“I did The Craft pretty quickly after I had carried out The Brady Bunch Film, and Marcia, in a manner, is her personal little villainess,” she defined whereas talking to PEOPLE on the purple carpet.

“Although she’s not overtly a villain in The Brady Bunch, I felt like there have been little bits and items of her,” she defined. Her “Marcia Brady hair” was additionally included in a plot level within the film (when Rachel True’s Rochelle Zimmerman hexes it to fall out).

“I actually assume Andy Fleming, our director, he had seen The Brady Bunch and there is one thing about how I performed that function that made him assume I’d be an ideal Laura Lizzy,” the Dodgeball star mentioned.

Nonetheless, she mentioned, Laura Lizzy was “a unique world” from Marcia. “A minimum of Marcia has a coronary heart and she or he comes full circle and loves her household, however Laura Lizzy actually received what was coming to her,” she shared.

In the course of the Craft panel on the occasion, Taylor was joined by True, 58, and Robin Tunney, who performed Sarah Bailey within the movie. Taylor revealed that she initially auditioned for Tunney’s half, and when she did not get it, Fleming prompt she learn for Lizzie.

Taylor remembered a pivotal scene the place her character bullies True’s. “Each take, Andy would push me slightly.” He advised her, “I actually need you as a result of what she’s going to do to you later has to make sense.” However after each take, she would apologize to True.

True joked that she was “perpetually being like, ‘No she’s not racist she was taking part in an element.'”

The Craft additionally starred Fairuza Balk as Nancy Downs and Neve Campbell as Bonnie Harper, alongside Skeet Ulrich and Breckin Meyer.

Fleming, 62, advised The Guardian in 2016 of the film, “The Craft was primarily a personality piece: the story of 4 teenage women not becoming in in school as a lot as one about spells and witchcraft. I didn’t need the witches to have pointed hats or fly round on broomsticks. I needed them to appear like they have been within the Treatment.” He needed the film to nonetheless be “genuine,” nevertheless, and he employed somebody to seek the advice of them in Wicca. The spells within the movie are a mixture of actual ones and ones they made up. He additionally made the ladies worship “Manon” — a god they made up for the film. 

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As for the films’ motion sequences, Tunney advised the outlet, “I had rats dumped on my head and I had scenes with a whole lot of snakes. I requested Andrew if we have been really going to do it with actual snakes. He mentioned: ‘Didn’t you learn the script?’ I assumed they’d be faux.”

At 90s Con, The Craft shared a panel with one other film Tunney starred in, 1995’s Empire Records. Ethan Embry, who played Mark, Johnny Whitworth, who performed A.J., and Maxwell Caulfield, who performed Rex Manning, have been all available.

90s Con is working by Sunday, March 30, on the Connecticut Conference Heart in Hartford.