"I thought, 'This is just too terrifying. I've never seen anything like that before.' I hadn't been allowed to watch horror movies before that. I was so traumatized I literally could not sleep for weeks, and it changed my physical appearance; I lost like 10 pounds. My teachers got so concerned they called my mother, 'Is there something going on – is she being abused at home?' My mother found a picture of Robert Englund the actor, and Robert Englund in the Freddy Krueger make-up, and pasted them up near my bedside table. So, every night when I'd go to sleep, literally for like a year, I'd have to look at it and think, 'It's just a movie, it's just a movie, it's not real.' I remember thinking that I was going to grow up one day and be an actress, and never make a movie that scares little kids."
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Discussing A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) in the 2010 documentary, Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
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Monica Keena
Monica Keena (born May 28, 1979) is an American actress. She made her feature film debut in While You Were Sleeping (1995), which was followed by supporting roles in The Devil's Advocate (1997) and Orange County (2002), as well as starring roles in Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997), Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000), and Freddy vs. Jason (2003).
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