Donna Consuelo Wilkes (born November 11, 1959) is an American actress. She began her career as a child actor in commercials before making her feature film debut in Jaws 2 (1978).
On November 10, we will be celebrating Roy Scheider on his 91st birthday. A day later, on November 11, JAWS 2 actress Donna Wilkes will be celebrating a birthday of her own. Born in the Spanish Harlem section of Manhattan in New York, Donna made her professional debut in a television commercial for Keds Sneakers.
Tina Wilcox is a Jaws 2 character. She is portrayed by Ann Dusenberry. She is seen as a playful, happy, fun teenage girl. She is Eddie's girlfriend and was also Miss Amity.
Source. Therefore, it is conceivable that, four years after the Amity shark attack as portrayed in Jaws, a second great white could enter the same waters, especially if the food supply was ample.
However, it is regarded in retrospect as the best of the three Jaws sequels. It was briefly the highest-grossing sequel in history until Rocky II was released in 1979.
That success of the first movie made Jaws 2 - which almost dropped the great white shark - inevitable, though to the shock of no one, Spielberg passed on it. The helmer couldn't face the thought of returning to the water, and he also dismissed the idea of sequels as a "cheap carny trick" at the time.
At a recent appearance here in Kansas City, a fan asked Dreyfuss why he wasn't in the sequel. His answer? Money. None of the cast or crew were ever rewarded monetarily for being part of the most successful film of all time.
“I would have done the sequel if I hadn't had such a horrible time at sea on the first film,” he claimed. It transpires that Roy Scheider also voiced doubts about Jaws 2. Like Spielberg, he argued that a sequel could add nothing to the story, and the scary shark premise would tire rapidly.
Roy Scheider, who played Police Chief Martin Brody in the first two films, laughed at the thought of Jaws 3, saying that "Mephistopheles ... couldn't talk me into doing [it] ... They knew better than to even ask". He agreed to do the film Blue Thunder to ensure his unavailability for Jaws 3-D.
Marc Gilpin, the child actor who played a son of Roy Scheider's Police Chief Martin Brody in 1978's Jaws 2, died Saturday in Dallas of the aggressive brain cancer glioblastoma. He was 56. His death was announced by his sister, the Frasier actor Peri Gilpin.
Susan Jane Backlinie (September 1, 1946 – May 11, 2024) was an American actress and stuntwoman. She was known for playing Chrissie Watkins, the shark attack victim in the opening scene of Steven Spielberg's 1975 film Jaws.
The production team returned to Martha's Vineyard for the Jaws 2 production process. Various locations along the Emerald Coast also received some screen time.
Bruce (Jaws) - 25 feet in length and weighs in at 3 tons. Hooper claimed it to be a 20 footer at first. Apparently 12 years old, Bruce is the first shark to terrorize the citizens of Amity Island. Brucette (Jaws 2) - 24 feet in length and 3 tons in weight, apparently 10 years old.
Originally, Cape Cod was to serve as the location for the filming of this sequel. However, after experiencing some difficulties, the film's makers relocated the production to Florida. Filming took place mainly at Navarre Beach. Some shooting occurred west of Pensacola, near Fort Pickens.
The movie did poorly at the box office and after a couple of years, no more mainstream films were presented in 3-D. The movie itself is pretty bad. Only for die hard fans of the JAWS series.
Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss refused to participate. Scheider had other commitments, and also had clearly expressed a desire not to play the character again. Lee Fierro made a brief cameo as Mrs. Kintner (the mother of Alex Kintner who was killed in Jaws), as did Fritzi Jane Courtney, who played Mrs.
Former Police Chief Martin Brody died of a heart attack in the beginning of Jaws: The Revenge. He was not seen, but his death was revealed to the audience in the beginning.
Over its initial release in '78, Jaws 2 grossed about $77.7 million (it had a re-release in February 1980, which grossed a little more than $4 million). It was the sixth-highest grossing film of 1978, nestled between No.
When the shark attacks the man in the estuary, the man is barefoot. However, when the severed leg sinks to the bottom, there is a shoe on the foot. An editing error occurs during Hooper's examination of the first victim in the medical examiner's office.
After answering a casting call, Gilpin beat out hundreds of other boys to get hired as Sean Brody in the 1978 sequel to the blockbuster Jaws (1975), directed by Steven Spielberg. He was 11 when the movie reached theaters. Jaws 2 was directed by Jeannot Szwarc.
Spielberg wanted Lee Marvin for Quint & Jon Voight for Hooper. We'll never know if Tom Selleck would've made for a better Indiana Jones over Harrison Ford, and the same goes for Spielberg's original casting choices for Captain Quint and Matt Hooper (ultimately played to perfection by Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss).
The work of up-and-coming director Steven Spielberg, dealing with pneumatically-powered prop sharks and seasick actors, came to be seen as the first-ever summer blockbuster. Though the film takes place in the fictional town of Amity Island in New York, it was actually filmed throughout Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
