Jennifer Tilly on Her Unknown ‘Chucky’ Future, Visiting ‘RHOBH’ and Why She Turned Down a Role in ‘Sex and the City’
02.05.2024 - 03:03
/ variety.com
Hunter Ingram SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from “Final Destination,” the Season 3 finale of Syfy/USA Network’s “Chucky,” available to stream next day on Peacock. For the first time in 20 years, Jennifer Tilly doesn’t have to refer to herself in the third person when talking about “Chucky.” Since 1998’s “Bride of Chucky,” Tilly, 65, has been fluent in the ever-more-bizarre mythology of Don Mancini’s killer doll franchise. In that film, she played Tiffany, the human, serial-killing girlfriend of Chucky, who has her soul transported into a doll bride.
She died at the end of the movie, but that didn’t stop Mancini from resurrecting her in 2004’s “Seed of Chucky,” when Tiffany’s soul is put into the body of her favorite actress, Jennifer Tilly. Ever since, Tilly has navigated the meta minefield of playing Tiffany in Jennifer Tilly drag.
But in the Season 3 finale of Syfy/USA Network’s continuation series “Chucky,” after two decades of playfully destroying Tilly’s career and reputation, Chucky warned his estranged wife that the world is never going to stop looking for the most-wanted actress in the world. So Tiffany finally exorcizes her soul from her human vessel, and puts it back in the plastic body of a doll, courtesy of the original dollmaker (played by camp king John Waters).
As Tiffany presumably leaves behind the soulless corpse of her favorite actress and two-decade companion, it is a bittersweet moment for Tilly –– even though there is one thing she is rejoicing. “I have to say, I am a little relieved that 20 years of Tiffany in Jennifer Tilly’s body and making fun of her floundering career is over,” Tilly tells Variety.
“I loved it. It was so funny and satirical, but I think we have taken it as far as
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