Shortly after helping declare Baltimore’s first serial killer Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner) not guilty on all charges of murder in the first degree, she’s confronted by the titular maniacal mom in a side-room of the courthouse.
And though the part was minor with only a minute or two of screen time, none of her roles were more biting and ironic than Juror No. Shortly afterwards Hearst would become a member of Waters’ stock company, appearing in all of his post-80s movies. And it was here, decades later at this unexpected meeting in Cannes, that Waters’ two great loves-trials and cinema-would collide. Is it any surprise that Waters, the king of bad taste and trash cinema, would count himself among their number? Long fascinated by death and violence-in his autobiography Shock Value Waters recounts traveling to junkyards as a boy so he could look at the blood-soaked insides of totaled cars-he journeyed to famous trials in-between shooting transgressive classics like Multiple Maniacs (1970) and Pink Flamingoes (1972). They would write cards and fan letters to the killers, some even professing undying romantic love or hybristophiliac lust for people who had gruesomely kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered untold innocents. They would camp out in front of courthouses for seats in the gallery like tailgaters at a football game or techies at an Apple launch. But in the era before Judge Judy, before the 24-hour news cycle, and before social media, there was in fact a thriving counterculture of serial killer groupies who traveled the countryside attending the trials of the most despicable and loathsome murderers in American history. 2008).When kidnapping victim and unwilling media sensation Patty Hearst first met director John Waters, it was at the Cannes Film Festival where he reportedly walked up to her, introduced himself, and casually mentioned “I went to your trial!” Years later, Hearst recalled her astonishment, both at Waters’ nonchalance and the idea that anybody would willingly attend another person’s trial, let alone her own. 2002) and Macey Lyn (2004) and a son, Liam (b. They have two daughters-Addison Grace, (b. Matthew married Heather Helm in 2000 and they live in the Los Angeles area.
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He has also provided the voice of Shaggy in several straight to DVD releases, such as Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown (2017).Ĭurrently, he stars as Dean Boland in the Netflix comedy series Good Girls (2018). Lillard went on to play a role alongside Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams and Justin Timberlake in the baseball drama Trouble with the Curve (2012). But he soon picked himself up delivering solid performances in Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost (2000), Summer Catch, Thir13en Ghosts (2001), and starring as Shaggy in the live action feature Scooby-Doo (2002). He starred in the comedies Senseless (1998) and She's All That (1999) before stumbling on the sci-fi flop, Wing Commander (1999). The following year, Matthew launched his star power winning critical acclaim and international recognition for his hyper-kinetic portrayal of teen serial killer Stuart in the hit horror film Scream. Matthew followed up his performance in Serial Mom by playing Mira Sorvino's boyfriend in Tarantella and a whacko computer nerd in Hackers (both 1995). He then began another theater company called the Summoners. After three auditions, he won the role of Kathleen Turner's son Chip. While performing in a stage production of A Child's Christmas in Wales, he met Bill Treusch who got Lillard an audition for Serial Mom (1994). He began acting professionally soon after graduating from high school, earning his Screen Actors Guild card while working as an extended extra for the straight-to-video project Ghoulies 3: Ghoulies Go To College (1991)and hosting the short-lived Nickelodeon television series SK8 TV.Īfter attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena, Matthew subsequently moved to New York where he studied at the famed Circle in the Square for two years. Michigan-born and California-raised actor Matthew Lillard began acting when he found he could escape the pressures of school by delving into theater.
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