I’ve always kind of dug Jessica Simpson. From the start, I liked her voice and look. Granted, her (decades ago) relationship with Nick Lachey may have been a bit publicly infantilizing, but I always admired that, in its aftermath, she seemed to come into her own and take control of her artistic narrative.
Then there is her acting career. While her contemporaries like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera made appearances on Will and Grace & The Voice, Simpson truly went the distance and put in a chilling appearance in The Collection episode of the Forrest Whitaker hosted The Twilight Zone reimagining in 2003. Here, as a child psychology student named Miranda Evans. Simpson learns, without a doubt, that Mattel is madness and that the seemingly sweetest little girls are never to be trusted.
Indeed, after being assigned by an agency to babysit the angelic Danielle (Ashley Edner), Evans/Simpson soon discovers that the child’s dolls have a life of their own. But, as the vengeful toys surround her, she ultimately learns that the danger she faces might be a bit more lifelike than she at first realized.
Nicely, acting-wise, Simpson resonates with the cinematic energy of multiple ’80s final girls and it would have been nice to see her do more horror-related projects. Perhaps, the future may find her playing the matriarch in a haunted house story or enacting the travails of a forensic expert turned novelist facing down a clan of serial killers. —- Now that would be the sweetest sin!
Until the next time, SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!
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