The film that brought Kevin Smith into the limelight was unequivocally Clerks. To this day people still consider it to be one of Smith’s greatest achievements. Sadly one of its stars Lisa Spoonhauer who played Caitlin Bree passed away on Saturday, May 20th. No cause of death has been given yet. She was briefly married to another Clerks co-star, Jeff Anderson and is survived by her current husband, Tom and daughter, Mia. Kevin Smith too to Instagram to pay a heartfelt tribute to Lisa who he considered one of the better actors of the film. Here’s what he wrote:
She didn’t sound like she was acting at all; she delivered scripted dialogue as if she was inventing her conversation in the moment, like people do in real life. Captivated, I approached Lisa cold in the parking lot after the class and said “This is gonna sound creepy but… Do you wanna be in a movie?” Fearlessly, she replied “Not if it’s porn.” I told her a bit about Clerks and gave her a copy of the script and my phone number. She called me a few days later and said “Well it’s not porn, but everybody talks like it is. It’s funny. I’ll do it.”
A complete stranger at first, Lisa quickly became one of the most important people I’d ever meet when she joined Brian, #JeffAnderson, Marilyn, @jaymewes, @samosier, @davidkleinasc and me as one of the chief architects of my first film. We rehearsed for a month straight in the store after hours, where Lisa perfected Caitlin (and fell in love with Jeff). The first night of the shoot, Lisa had to maneuver her way through a seven minute scene with Brian in the video store, when Caitlin finally shows up in the movie. Lisa and Brian CRUSHED it in one long take that still remains one of my favorite scenes I’ve ever shot — not because it shows off any directorial flare (it doesn’t) but because it exemplified how great the performers were since we never had to cut away from their 2-shot…
You changed my life, Lisa. (Via)
She will be missed.
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