‘Heathers’ Reboot Gets A Killer New Cast Member With Selma Blair
Selma Blair is tapping into her cruel intentions and joining the TV reboot ofHeathers, the ’80s high school-set black comedy that starredWinona RyderandChristian Slater.
However Blair, who has played her own share of ’90s teen queen bees, won’t be a Heather but a Jade — the “hard-edged, gold-digging” stripper stepmother of Heather Duke. How very.
TheAmerican Crime Storystar broke the news on Thursday with an Instagram picture of her in character clad in a tight leather two-piece and a fur coat as Jade, holding a cigarette and smirking upwards. Her caption referenced a line from the cult classic’s wellspring of sharp, snappy dialogue: “Do I look like step Mother Theresa?”
Do I look like step Mother Theresa ? @heathers #paramountnetwork2018
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According toTV Line,Blair will be recur on the TV series as Jade, who is married to the 82-year-old father of Heather Duke (played byBrendan Scannell). She is not the first former high school movie starlet to grace the presence of the newHeathers —the original Heather Duke herself,Shannon Doherty, will guest star in a “pivotal, unnamed” role in the Paramount Network reboot.
Heathersis described as a “pitch-black comedy anthology set in the present day” which follows Veronica Sawyer (Under the Dome’sGrace Victoria Coxtaking over the role originated by Ryder) as she deals with her unsteady friendship with the three vicious Heathers (Melanie Field, Scannell,andJasmine Matthews).James Scullywill play the malcontent JD, who Christian Slater imbued with a special brand of sociopathy in the original film.
I’ve found it funny that the originalHeathers, which glibly dealt with teen suicide, murder, and school attacks, is a movie that most people I’ve talked to have said could not be made in the politically fraught environment today, post-Columbine, and now post-13 Reasons Why. But there has been a musical version ofHeathers, and now, a TV reboot. I don’t doubt thatHeatherscould be a successful reboot, though it will be hard to recapture the incredibly dark satire of the original film. Plus, Winona and Christian are impossible to top.
Paramount Network is the new rebranded name for Spike TV, the cable channel that theHeathersreboot moved to after initially being picked up as a half-hour comedy by TV Land. The series, developed byKeith Cox, has since shifted to an hourlong dramedy.
