Mystery still surrounds the death of a talented young student who was tragically found dead in Salford Quays just days before Christmas.
20.04.2024 - 16:07 / deadline.com
Over the decades, vampire movies have made a star of many a young actor, from Kirsten Dunst to Kirsten Stewart. Soon, the same should be said of Ireland’s Alisha Weir, who at 13 years old, held Universal’s monster movie Abigail on her highly capable shoulders.
In the film from Radio Silence, which hits theaters today, Weir is introduced as Abigail, a ballerina enthusiast taken captive by a band of criminals seeking a $50 million ransom from her crime boss father. Brought onto the job Reservoir Dogs style by a figure named Lambert (Giancarlo Esposito), the gang soon realizes they’re in far over their head, as it’s revealed that what they believed to be their safe house is not so safe at all. No ordinary girl, Abigail is in fact a vampire who’ll make a game of picking them off one by one.
No ordinary girl, either, is Weir, who held her own opposite the likes of Melissa Barrera and Dan Stevens. Completing the majority of her own stunts for the film, she’s also said to have taken the project to the next level when she brought her skills as a dancer into play. She landed the part of the titular ballerina vampire following a Zoom meeting with the directors and a chemistry reading with Barrera, finding in the project a chance to realize her dream of working in horror, as someone who’s grown up with films like The Conjuring.
“A horror film was always on my bucket list,” Weir says, “because I was always so interested to see if it was really scary on set and if the actors that were scaring us were really scared filming.”
Not exposed to many vampire films prior to her work on Abigail, Weir had a big task before her in signing on. Her part was one requiring more range and skill than many a teenager might be able to muster, and
Mystery still surrounds the death of a talented young student who was tragically found dead in Salford Quays just days before Christmas.
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