Harper is the star of the original 1977 version, but she wanted to be in the new film so badly that when director Luca Guadagnino asked is she could speak German, she didn’t hesitate to say yes.
The problem is, she didn’t actually know how.
Usually, it’s expected that you can do the things that you say you can on your resume, but actress Jessica Harper felt the need to embellish a bit when it came to landing a cameo in one of this month’s big horror movies, the remake of Suspiria.