In an early Nineteen Seventies interview with Stuart M. Kaminsky, Clint Eastwood was requested how he arrived at Jessica Walter as the damaging stalker. “Over the studio’s lifeless physique,” he quipped. Coincidentally, three of the highest contenders for the half had appeared in Sidney Lumet’s 1966 drama “The Group.” When Eastwood watched the film, one significantly violent scene satisfied him Walter was the one alternative.

As he advised Kaminsky:

“[Walter] performs a frigid gal who talks about intercourse however is absolutely turned off — and she or he’s with this German man who’s making an attempt to place the make on her and she or he begins this turn-off, and he simply hauls off and slaps the s*** out of her. And the look on her face, the transition she makes, the story on her face made me wish to get her. I talked to the studio and so they named a few individuals who had been extra well-known, individuals they might get offers on as a result of enterprise was gradual, and I mentioned: I do not need offers, I simply need somebody who is true for the half.”

And as anybody who has seen “Play Misty For Me” can attest — Jessica Walter was completely one of the best particular person for the position.