In the 1970s, Eve Plumb was best known for her role as Jan Brady on The Brady Bunch, playing the middle Brady daughter from 1969 to 1974 on the ABCsitcom. But during her run on the show, Plumb auditioned for the starring role in one of the scariest movies of the 1970s—the 1973 supernatural horror classic, The Exorcist.
During a recent fan Q&A in New York City, Plumb, 68, revealed that while her parents, Neely and Flora, were “so protective” of her, they encouraged her to audition for less wholesome roles, such as the lead role in the 1976 teen prostitution movie, Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway.
“They also let me audition for The Exorcist, which I had read,” Plumb said. “They didn't want to ever hide anything from me. They were like, you know, you can read most books. So I think they probably saw it as a real opportunity for me to start in adult roles and to be seen completely differently from Jan right away.”
Plumb shared details about her audition for The Exorcist in her book, Happiness Included, noting, “I had read the book, surprisingly, even though I was young. Jamie Lee Curtis wanted to audition as Regan, but her parents objected to the storyline and what would be required as a child actor.”
Plumb admitted she was surprised her parents did not object the way Curtis’s parents did. She also recalled reading her lines for her The Exorcist audition with a “gravel-crunching tone.”
The Brady Bunch star shared that over 500 young girls auditioned for the role of demonically possessed teen Regan MacNeil, including Laura Dern, Kim Basinger, and Melanie Griffith, before Linda Blair won the part at age 13.
Plumb admitted that when The Exorcist came out in theaters, she went to see it and was “so terrified” that she slept in her mother’s bed for several nights afterward.
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Eve Plumb auditioned for another horror film in the late 1970s
The Exorcist audition wasn’t Plumb’s only foray into the horror genre. Several years later, she was up for one of the lead roles in the slasher film Prom Night—a role that, ironically, went to Curtis.
In a 2004 interview with The Terror Trap, Prom Night producer Peter Simpson recalled, “One of the girls we interviewed was Eve Plumb... she came in and met with us.”
Plumb didn’t get to the audition stage, as Curtis aggressively rallied for the role of popular high school prom queen Kim Hammond, the main protagonist in the 1980 slasher film.
Still, in the documentary The Making of Prom Night, director Paul Lynch revealed that Plumb had been a frontrunner for the role.
“We were talking about getting a name from television, and I liked a young girl who'd been up; she was now in TV movies, but she'd been on The Brady Bunch, and we were kind of leaning towards that,” he said. “And then I got a call, an odd call, from Jamie Lee Curtis's manager. 'Would you consider Jamie Lee Curtis?' I said yes.”
Lynch revealed that Curtis totally sold herself to the film's producer. “After that, the girl from the TV series was gone, and it was now Jamie Lee Curtis,” he said.
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