Linda Cardellini Speaks About Her Involvement As Pamela Voorhees In Crystal Lake

 Linda Cardellini has really not spoken publicly yet about her role of Pamela Voorhees in the upcoming Peacock and A24 streaming series Crystal Lake. She has been making the rounds in talk shows for other series she has been a part of, and recently, The Hollywood Reporter caught up with her to talk about her current slate of projects, and she opened up a bit about her involvement in Crystal Lake!

Concept and appeal

"She’s (Pamela Voorhees) only in the movie for the last little bit, but she leaves this impression on the entire franchise. There's so many movies subsequent that you’d think Jason’s always been in that mask doing what he’s doing. But that wasn’t the case. I don’t think he gets the mask a few movies down. It just seemed like something that I had never done."

“With Crystal Lake, A24, Peacock and [creator] Brad Caleb Kane all came together and they just had this concept for making this story about Pam Voorhees. And if you watch the original movie, it really operates like a whodunit."

Why it felt fresh

“I haven’t seen that many female slashers like that. To dive into who she might have been, I thought, well, that’s something I’ve never done. When I’m looking for things to do next, I ask myself what’s something I haven’t done yet. And that was one of them.” 

On the backstory

“They let her son drown! There’s fertile backstory there!”

Crystal Lake is an upcoming American horror television series developed as a prequel to the iconic Friday the 13th film franchise. Produced by A24 and set to stream exclusively on Peacock in the U.S and Sky in the U.K and Ireland, it explores the origins of Jason Voorhees and his mother, Pamela Voorhees, in a doomed small town where camp counselors meet grisly fates. The series blends slasher elements with deeper character backstories, including various iterations of Jason familiar to franchise fans, and is described as an "expanded prequel" set primarily in 1970-1971 at Camp Crystal Lake.