10 Actors Who Just Gave Their Best Performance Out Of NOWHERE
2. Lauren-Marie Taylor - In a Violent Nature
Artsy slasher flick In a Violent Nature has quite the surprise in store for horror fans, as Friday the 13th Part 2 star Lauren-Marie Taylor makes an unexpected appearance in the third act of the movie as a woman in a pickup truck who stops to assist sole survivor Kris (Andrea Pavlovic).
Taylor, who by the late 1990s had more-or-less quit acting to work as a school teacher, was coaxed out of retirement with Chris Nash's script, which rather than simply offer Taylor a wink-wink cameo, gives her a long, 10-minute monologue to chew through.
And it's not merely a long-retired actor pulling off a huge monologue that's impressive here - it's that Taylor has to perform it with enough subtlety to make the audience suspicious of her character's intentions, but not tip her hat too pointedly in either direction.
It's a phenomenal performance for any actor, let alone someone who's been basically out of the game for almost 30 years. While Taylor's filmography counts just a small number of roles, this feels like the work of a genuine industry veteran.