Eliza Dushku Almost Had A Cameo In Wrong Turn 2

Eliza Dushku Almost Had A Cameo In Wrong Turn 2

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2007 sequel Wrong Turn 2: Dead End didn’t include any survivors from the original movie, but actress Eliza Dushku almost returned for a cameo.

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Eliza Dushku Almost Had A Cameo In Wrong Turn 2

2007 sequel Wrong Turn 2: Dead End didn’t include any survivors from the original movie, but actress Eliza Dushku almost returned for a cameo. Still probably best known for playing badass antihero Faith on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dushku has been acting in both movies and TV since the early 1990s, back when she was still a kid. Dushku memorably appeared in the James Cameron action/comedy True Lies in 1994, playing Arnold Schwarzenegger’s daughter.

During the long, successful run of Buffy on TV, Dushku gained further fame in films like the hit cheerleader comedy Bring It On, and the Kevin Smith Hollywood satire Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Dushku would go on to lead the short-lived but well-remembered TV dramas Dollhouse and Tru Calling, and more recently recurred on Cinemax’s Banshee and CBS’ Bull, the latter of which she left due to alleged harassment by star Michael Weatherly. It was in 2003, though, when Dushku really became a scream queen by starring in Wrong Turn.

Wrong Turn wasn’t a huge success at the box office, but quickly found its audience on home video, leading to a series of direct to video sequels. A Wrong Turn reboot is also currently in development, and it’s unclear whether that will take the franchise back to theaters. Despite surviving the original, Dushku never returned for any of Wrong Turn’s follow-ups, but that wasn’t always going to be the case.

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Eliza Dushku Almost Had A Cameo In Wrong Turn 2

As those who’ve seen it are well aware, Wrong Turn 2, as directed by Joe Lynch, is a much more comedic endeavor than the original, which had almost no moments of levity. It also ratchets up both the gore and nudity levels, with the latter admittedly not being hard to do, as nobody got naked in the first Wrong Turn. Anyway, Wrong Turn 2 begins with a sequence in which Kimberly Caldwell, a real life finalist on a then-recent season of American Idol playing herself, is murdered in crowd-pleasing fashion by Wrong Turn’s backwoods cannibal clan.

It turns out that the original plan for that sequence was for Eliza Dushku to appear in a cameo, and suffer the same grisly fate. In an odd meta twist though, she wouldn’t have been playing Wrong Turn heroine Jessie Burlingame, but instead would’ve played herself. It’s not clear why Dushku didn’t end up participating in the sequel. As potentially fun as that might’ve been, it’s probably for the best it didn’t happen. Wrong Turn fans would likely assume on sight she was playing Jessie, and the logical paradox introduced by having the actress who starred in Wrong Turn getting killed by the supposedly fictional villains of that film would’ve led to lots of whats and huhs from confused audiences just looking to chill out and watch a slasher.

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