X Movie Actress' Secret Role Even Scared Her Horror Movie Co-Stars
Warning! SPOILERS ahead for X.
X actress Mia Goth, who plays both Maxine and Pearl in the horror film, put fright and admiration into her co-stars due to her ability to play both roles so convincingly. Ti West's X, the new A24 horror movie that is gaining critical acclaim, follows a group of porn performers and filmmakers in the 1970s. In order to film their next venture, Debbie Does Dallas, they travel from Houston to the rural outskirts of Texas, and happen upon a farmhouse to use as the set for their film.
The actors playing roles in Debbie Does Dallas include Maxine (Goth), Bobby Lynne (Brittany Snow), and Jackson Hole (Kid Cudi). They are accompanied by their director (Owen Campbell) and his girlfriend, Lorraine (Jenna Ortega), who later decides to be included on screen in the porn shoot. The farmhouse that they arrive at is owned by an elderly couple, Pearl (Goth) and Howard (Stephen Ure). These unassuming homeowners soon turn violent as night sets over the group in the indie slasher film.
Related: X Movie Cast & Character Guide
Goth plays both the dewy and youthful stripper, Maxine, as well as the murderous Pearl in the film, although her co-stars swear her performance was so convincing in both roles that it felt like two entirely different people on set, IndieWire reports. Ortega notes that the first time Goth appeared on set after going through the hair and makeup process for Pearl, which included several prosthetics, that she was completely unrecognizable as Goth herself. Snow echoes this sentiment saying how Goth's change in physicality while playing the role of Pearl also added to not only the distinction between the two characters, but how frightening Pearl is as a character both on set and on the screen.
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