My Extraordinary Ordinary Life by Sissy Spacek

Author:Sissy Spacek [Spacek, Sissy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Rich & Famous
ISBN: 9781401304270
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

We started shooting in mid-July with temperatures hovering around one hundred degrees. One afternoon Janit and I were sipping cold milk shakes through straws, when Jack and one of his friends walked by. I offered Jack the rest of my shake and he took it from me with a grin. It felt like a primal act, a “stranger in a strange land” moment—sharing water in the hot desert. I learned that he was an artist from back East, a trained painter and sculptor who had moved to LA and started working as a grip and set dresser. When he was still in art school, Jack created huge environmental sculptures in his studio, but longed to see people moving through them and interacting with them. While in Philadelphia, he began designing sets for the Theater of the Living Arts, which led to his work in film. It was a natural evolution.

Badlands was his first serious film as an art director. His previous experience was on exploitation films and biker movies, one of which had an art budget of $300. Jack went to the hardware store and bought $100 worth of plywood, $100 worth of black paint, and $100 worth of chain. That kind of austerity turned out to be good training for Badlands.

Terry only had a budget of $250,000 for his entire film, which was tiny, even for an independent feature back then. Jack did his best to stretch things out. When he arrived in Colorado, he found an abandoned house that had belonged to a junkman who’d recently died. He paid the man’s family $100 cash for everything in it. To Jack it was a diamond mine, filled with amazing things like jars of black widow spiders and balls of string the size of pumpkins, an old iron bed, and a Sears and Roebuck catalogue from the early 1950s. ‘ There were rusty tools and beat-up furniture, perfect for “Cato’s shack,” an important location where Kit visits his old buddy (and then shoots him). Jack and I found out right off that both of us loved going to flea markets; our idea of a perfect date was rooting around at the town dump.

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