Sissy Spacek was 27 when she shot 3 Women , but she may as well have been 17. That’s how credible she is as Pinky Rose, a naïve cipher working at a rehab spa in a California desert town who behaves like a sheltered teenager. Her initial withdrawal is what makes Spacek’s gradual transformation so striking. As Pinky begins to emulate Millie (Shelley Duvall), her more established, relentlessly chatty co-worker, she takes Millie’s adultness to an extreme: She starts smoking, layers on makeup, hooks up with their married landlord Edgar (Robert Fortier), borrows Millie’s car without asking, and generally turns into a sassy pill. Spacek’s voice gets a little deeper, her mannerisms more suggestive. To think she never even got a proper script.

Spacek had already starred in Badlands and Carrie

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