The woman in room 237

"Here's Jacky!", call Jack, as he wedges his face through the hole in the door, which he smashed with an axe. 127-times Stanley Kubrick should have this legendary film scene with Jack Nicholson turned until they fit.

The horror movie "The Shining", the flickered in 1980, for the first time on the canvas and its sequel, "Doctor Sleep", soon in the cinemas, tells the story of Jack Torrance. The writer spends with his family as a house Manager of a Winter in the Overlook Hotel in the mountains of Colorado to the killer. For open mouths of the audience at the scene made in room 237 with Lia Beldam from Zurich. She played in "The Shining," a seductive Ghost and turned with Jack Nicholson an erotic kiss.

Young woman – the age of the spirit

In the room 237 of the Overlook hotel. The facilitation of the excitatory sight, it is written Jack Torrance in the face when he sees a young woman rising naked out of the bathtub and on it plays. She holds his gaze for a long Moment, before she puts her arms around his shoulders and him a loving kiss. As Jack opens in the intimate Moment, his eyes and looks in the mirror, he holds the decaying body of an old woman in the arms.

"The young woman, who I played with in this movie scene, embodies an ancient spirit that drives at the Overlook Hotel is on the loose. In contrast to other ghosts in the house, he added to Jack and his son, the visible damage," says Lia Beldam.

Successful at the Casting

"at the Time, I worked as a photo model in London and had a Casting for the ballroom scene. In my application folder I had in the back of some naked photos that I had made for a body lotion commercial. As the Person who led me to the interview, saw the photos, she decided to prompt, to put me in room 237 in the scene," says Lia Beldam.

By Director Stanley Kubrick, who had already made with "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) and "A Clockwork Orange" (1971) large cinema, had you previously heard hardly anything, and she had only seen one or two films with Jack Nicholson, admits Beldam. She was born in Uster, Alma Cornelia Tanner. Of her husband, George Beldam, you not only took the last name, he also called her Lia, because the last three letters of your middle name.

Lia Beldam, nearly four decades after "the Shining". Photo: PD

"We shot the bathroom scene in the course of a week," recalls Beldam of the shooting at Elstree Studios, in Hertfordshire, in the suburbs of London. "Anyone familiar with Stanley Kubrick that he took shots in all his films many times again." To the shooting she had been with a beautiful black Limousine, chauffeured, says the Swiss native, who now lives in London. Your home to Zurich, left as a 20-Year-old because of her English fiance.

The atmosphere on the film set Beldam is still well remembered. All were friendly and respectful to deal with. Sometimes your Kubrick had offered his Director's chair, so that she could sit for a few minutes, if the lighting had to be adjusted, so Beldam. "To me, a wonderful woman who was always ready with a fluffy Bathrobe took care of," she says with a grin. On your Gage and your age it all starts, however, in Silence.

book in Zermatt read

The eponymous novel by Stephen King in 1977, the Stanley Kubrick as a template for "The Shining" took advantage of, have read them only after the release of the film, in the snow during a skiing holiday in Zermatt, Lia Beldam. They still visit often with your family in Switzerland.

their living Beldam, the manufactures in their leisure time, clay pots and painted today with the Signing of photos on film conventions deserves. "I love the whole movie, and especially my scene," she says. Whether Jack Nicholson is a good kisser? Lia Beldam in the imagination of the audience leaves.

Doctor Sleep, sequel of the Shining, from 21. November in Zurich's cinemas.

Created: 05.11.2019, 18:00 clock