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During one scene, when his character, Father Merrin, is conducting the exorcism, He says at the top of his voice, I cast you out, unclean spirit, in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. When we came to that moment, Max froze up. We had this false ceiling that had to crack. We had six ceilings made and we went through six takes that day and he couldnt do it. He couldnt get those words out. I stood there, kind of paralyzed. I ordered six more ceilings and we came back a day later. Same result. On the third day, I called Bill Blatty, who wrote the novel and the script. The Full Plan Bee Movie. I said, Please look at these takes. He sat down in a room and he looked at them and he said, Youre right. AARON LOVES ANGELA Drama, 1975, USA, R, 12 4 star rating system Kevin Hooks, Irene Cara, Robert Hooks, Ernestine Jackson, Jose Feliciano, Walt Frazier, Moses Gunn. Best Movie Quizzes Take or Create Movie Quizzes Trivia. 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And I blurted out, Well why dont you play this guy as a man Just play him as a sickly priest trying to do his job. A half hour or so went by, he came out of his dressing room, dressed and ready. The filmmaker said he never contemplated making a sequel, nor any other horror film I would never go back and do another Exorcist. Or anything with demonic possession or exorcism in it. I did it. I couldnt do it any better than that. The director, whose other films include The French Connection, Sorcerer and Killer Joe which helped usher in star Matthew Mc. Conaugheys career rebirth as more than a handsome devil was taking part in The Hollywood Masters interview series, conducted by THRs Stephen Galloway. Others in the series include directors David O. Russell, Alfonso Cuaron, John Singleton,Judd Apatow, former Paramount chief Sherry Lansing, Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn and Hunger Games writer director Gary Ross. Friedkin worried about casting Linda Blair as the young girl who becomes possessed by a demon and who goes through the exorcism. I was in despair, in my office in New York where we filmed the interiors, and where we edited the film it was at 6. Fifth Avenue, that was the address. My secretary buzzed me and said, Theres a woman out here named Eleanor Blair and she doesnt have an appointment but shes brought her daughter with her whos 1. She walked in the door and I knew instantly she was the one. She was very cute, smart, adorable. Not beautiful, but really very giving and open and just a lovely young girl. I said, Linda, do you know what The Exorcist is about She said, Yeah I read the book. Its about a little girl who gets possessed by the devil and does a whole bunch of bad things. And I said, Like what sort of things She said, Well, she hits her mother across the face and she pushes a man out of her bedroom window and she masturbates with a crucifix. And I looked at her mother, who was smiling. I said, Do you know what that means To masturbate She said, Its like jerking off, isnt it I said, Have you ever done that She said, Sure. Havent you And so I hired her. Because I knew that she could handle this material with a sense of humor. And every day on the set I made it like a game for her. Friedkin says he is still in touch with Blair. Of course. Shes now 5. Shes done more films than I have. A full transcript follows on the next page. STEPHEN GALLOWAY Hi everyone. Im Stephen Galloway and welcome again to The Hollywood Masters filmed on the campus of Loyola Marymount University. Im really thrilled to have our guest, one of the great American film directors. I dont know if he agrees with that assessment, well see. I think of his work as defined by paranoia, darkness, and I think the very way he uses the camera is completely unique to him. All these things he may disagree with. Hes done classic things that have become completely part of our culture. We all know The Exorcist, The French Connection, Sorcerer, To Live and Die in L. A., recently some very dark films, and were going to show you an excerpt from one of them later, Killer Joe. Hes also recently written his autobiography, The Friedkin Connection. Ive now read it two and half times. Its really terrific. Im going to do something I havent done before. Im going to read you something from the opening before we bring him out. He talks about his mistakes. He talks about having the chance to get a free Jean Michel Basquiat painting and throwing it away having the chance to produce Star Wars and saying no having the chance to be an owner of the Boston Celtics, and turning that down. Then he says this Ive burned bridges and relationships to the point that I consider myself lucky to still be around. I never played by the rules, often to my own detriment. Ive been rude, exercised bad judgment, squandered most of the gifts God gave me, and treated the love and friendship of others as I did Basquiats art and Princes music. When you are immune to the feelings of others, can you be a good father, a good husband, a good friend Do I have regrets You bet. Im delighted to welcome William Friedkin. WILLIAM FRIEDKIN Thank you. Thanks a lot. I have to tell you that I have bronchitis tonight. So if I go off on a coughing or a sneezing jag, I hope youll understand. Its like an epidemic of it out there. Ive had this now this is the fourth week. I have to tell you, I dont know if youre aware but, I gave a commencement speech here about ten years ago and I was given an honorary doctorate by Father Lawton, who was formerly the head of the school. So you could call me Dr. Friedkin. You can, too. LAUGHTERSTEPHEN GALLOWAY That sounds like something from The Exorcist. WILLIAM FRIEDKIN Dr. Friedkin STEPHEN GALLOWAY It does. Lets go back to the beginning. You say in your book you did not have success in your DNA. WILLIAM FRIEDKIN Let me have a sip of this. I know this wont play on the streaming cast, but nevertheless. Rich, hot, steaming, delicious, flavorful tea. No, there was no art in my family, no music. My mother and father were immigrants from the Ukraine and they came over at the turn of the 2. And there was no literature, or art, or music in my family at all. By the time I came of age to see movies you know, not films, movies it was just pure entertainment to me nothing to do with cinema or art or anything like that. Just pure entertainment. Im not sure thats not the best way to view a film anyway as simply entertainment. STEPHEN GALLOWAY When did that change WILLIAM FRIEDKIN When I saw Citizen Kane. I was somewhere under twenty, maybe seventeen or eighteen years old. Someone told me that there was this great revival of a real film called Citizen Kane playing at a revival theater in Chicago. I put off seeing it. Then I saw in the newspaper that it was going to close in a day or two. So I went to see it at this little revival theater on the near north side. I was just stunned by the experience. Its, Im sure, what happens to painters when they first stand in front of a Vermeer or a Rembrandt. I first experienced film as art. And I stayed in the theater for five or six showings that day. And Ive since seen it hundreds of times.