[on playing Ruby in
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)] I was offered the role of Lynn, which
Dee Wallace ending up doing, but I really wanted to be Ruby. Here was this challenging role of the animal girl, with dirt and leather and rattlesnakes, and saving the baby. I really fell in love with the character. I'd been up for a lot of parts like
The Pom Pom Girls (1976), which were just T&A, and I never felt comfortable with that. The horror genre was much more to my liking.