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“You know, Laurie Strode was 17 years old, she was an intellectual, she was a very smart student.” says the actress. “And she has this horrible experience perpetrated upon her by this random act of violence. The woman we meet in 2018 is someone who has suffered tremendous PTSD, suffered a trauma that no one addressed in her life. In 1978, there weren’t trauma therapists descending on the town of Haddonfield to counsel and comfort the victims, the survivors of this violence. She never recovered from it, and the woman we meet is someone who has now spent 40 years waiting, knowing that this man would come back.”