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The celebrated actress,
Julie Christie engages in
what might be termed
“thespic shadow-boxing” in
her newest screen outing
andit wasn't exactly a snap.

In MGM’s unique thriller,
"Demon Seed”, she plays
most of her major scenes
with an unseen adversary —
a super-computer that
forces her to be its mate ina
bizarre experiment

procreate.

Happily, Ms. Christie has
the anting reserves on which
to draw, the bravura talent
that allows her to be riveting
all by herself, but still it was
not a trifling task.

*t¥ou don’t have anyone to
react to, you know,” she
points out. “The thing about
actors is that when you’re
working with them they’re
constantly surprising yau.
So you are always on the
edge of a cliff, really.”

Without a cliff-hanging
element to play against,
“Demon Seed’ definitely
was a challenge, a film for
which the actress made

ial preparations.
en did a lot of work
beforehand,
‘yesearch,” she says.
“That's the only kind of

to .

* opportuni

mostly -

preparation I do, though. I:

avoid acting exercises or

anything like that.” | o
os instinctive, intuitive .

player; Ms. Christie .war-_

med ta acting at an early

age. an ;
“I was always scared to

death in school,”. she |
remembers. “Everybody |

seemed prettier, smarter, |
* more talented than 1, The

only time I felt like a person
woe ina Twas a stage,
acting in a school play. Then
I could hide behind the
character I was playing.”

Interestingly,. after she
had made a mark for herself

-“She’s a joy to work with,
so Generous with co-actors,
and a gorgeous-looking
lady. But I was principally
impressed by the special
dimension 1 found in her,
which is that she is no ac-
cessible and vulnerable to
life.and to situations.” -

. The actress took par-
ticular pleasure in the
physical situations -of

‘Demon Seed
produced hy Herb Jaffe
rom a screenplay by
Robert Jaffe and Roger 0.
Hirson, mo

“Rarely do I get a film
with lots of action and the
to be showered
with sparks and fall: into
pits,” she observes. Ac-
‘tually, while she does not
fall into a single pit in the
picture, she is showered
with .sparks, nearly elec-
trocuted, held prisoner in
her own home where even
. the shutters slam shut at the
computer’s' command and
tied to a laboratory table for.
unmentionable .tests —
among . other terrifying
things. She.even resorts to a
blowtorch to fight Proteus,

4, which was-

the computer, at one point.
“I've never seen Juli
work at this level in any af
her other movies,” com-
ments
‘director Donald Cammell.
“She has this ability to take
something and make it
larger than life. It’s like a
great actress or actor will
do, like Olivier or Brando at
their best. They become so
intimately involved with the
character they'll take you
anywhere and you'll identify
and believe in them.”
Perhaps Ms. Christie is
extraordinarily good at
acting because she enjoys it
so much.
“TI get a
satisfaction out of it,” she

confirms. “All I want is to -

work with good material

under a good director. Being:

a star is meaningless,
really, unless you are also a
real actress and that's what

I’m determined to be.”

She prefers sereen to
stage acting. .°
“I'm in love ‘with the-

cinema,” she states. “In the
theater, the audience won't |
forgive you if you break the

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