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Crystal Lake showrunner Brad Caleb Kane said that he “tried” to include more nudity in the series.
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“Sometimes you get overruled in these things,” he said of his Friday the 13th prequel.
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Crystal Lake is currently streaming on Peacock.
Crystal Lake doesn’t get as steamy as other Friday the 13th projects, but its showrunner says it’s not his fault.
Brad Caleb Kane told The Wrap that he “tried” and failed to insert more nudity into the horror series, which centers on Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees, the mother of slasher icon Jason Voorhees.
“I tried. That’s America,” Kane said. “You can give the kids the violence, but God forbid they see some breasts.”
The showrunner added, “Sometimes you get overruled in these things.”
Representatives for Peacock did not immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly‘s request for comment.
Kane previously told EW how he approached bringing a young version of Jason into the prequel series.
“I knew that you couldn’t have a Friday the 13th prequel without Jason, without Jason’s presence looming large, and without ultimately seeing him do what you want Jason to do — and in a spectacular way,” he explained. “I knew I wanted those two killers from the movie, [for] their emotional thread to be tight. I wanted to understand their relationship at a cellular level, the real mother-son relationship between Pam and Jason.”
Kane added, “We wanted to see the evolution of how he went from a boy with differences, a boy who’s othered and a boy who does not fit in with the kids at Camp Crystal Lake, to a monster.”
The showrunner also explained why he thought Cardellini was the perfect choice to play Pamela, whom Betsy Palmer portrayed in the original 1980 Friday the 13th.
“She’s worked consistently and she’s put in varied work, from comedy to drama to camp, the Scooby-Doo movies, all of it,” Kane said. “You realize she truly can do it all, but in such a humble way. Her humility is her talent, and that just made me want her more.”
Cardellini told EW about how her version of Pamela compared to Palmer’s.
“It’s more an homage than mimicry,” she said, noting that she wanted to don a similar hairstyle to the original actress. “We were trying wigs to see how it would look, and then we realized it’s 10 years before. Your hair in the ’70s was not necessarily the same hair that it was in the ’80s…so it kinda didn’t make sense to keep that hair going for so long.”
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She added, “It’s a pretty iconic look. That’s why I was really interested in it, but nobody else was going for it. Nobody else wanted it.”
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