Sigourney Weaver has revealed that it was her daughter Shar who made her accept the role of the evil antagonist in the Disney film Holes, starring Shia LaBeouf.
In his long career, Sigourney Weaver she didn’t just play the heroine Ripley in Alien or Dr. Grace in the franchise Avatarbut it was also the ruthless director of a correctional camp for boys in the movie Holes – Holes in the desert. It was her daughter Shar who pushed her to accept the role of this “horrible woman”, as the actress revealed to Vanity Fair.
Holes – Holes in the desert, Sigourney Weaver has her daughter to thank for accepting the role of the villain
Based on the young adult novel Holes Of Louis Sachar from 1998, Holes – Holes in the desert follows the story of Stanley Yelnats (Shia LaBeouf), who is sent to an iGreen Lake juvenile delinquent camp to correct his “criminal disposition” by digging holes in the desert. In reality, Stanley was in the wrong place at the wrong time and the field is really not what it seems. The facility is run by cruel director Louise Walker (Sigourney Weaver), who has a very specific plan on how to exploit the boys in the camp by digging holes to find an ancient treasure.
The actress recently told Vanity Fair that it was her daughter who pushed her to accept the role of director Shar: at 8 years old, in fact, the little girl had read Holes and she had fallen in love with it, so when she discovered that her mother had been offered the role of director, she begged her to accept it:
“That was one of the first books my daughter read and fell in love with. I remember her describing the director to me and saying ‘Mom, you have to play that part’. I don’t know why she thought that, maybe because she knew I would like it“
From the children’s point of view, in fact, Director Walker is a truly horrible, nightmarish woman. And yet, he continued to tell Sigourney Weaverthere was something that led her to empathize with her: “What I found moving about the character was that he had spent his childhood searching for that treasure, relentlessly doing what he subjected the boys to. I liked the idea that there was an unresolved trauma in her, she was constantly driven to look for the treasure because of this”.
