“Due to death threats against Linda Blair from religious zealots who believed the film ”glorified Satan“, Warner Bros. had bodyguards protecting her for six months after the film’s release.” | “Jack Nicholson was up for the part of Father Karras, before Jason Miller landed the role. William Friedkin thought he was too unholy to ever play a priest.” | “On the first day of filming the exorcism sequence, Linda Blair’s delivery of her foul-mouthed dialogue so disturbed the gentlemanly Max von Sydow that he actually forgot his lines.”The Exorcist (1973) dir. William Friedkin