![]() ![]() ![]() Late in the film, Paul snoops around and opens up one of Annie's scrapbooks, which is how he learns that Wilkes is an angel of death nurse known to the press as "Dragon Lady." She has murdered a lot of people, either as a means to an end or simply because she's a homicidal infant-killing maniac. Such a suggestion is nowhere to be found in the movie, but it does add a layer of depth to the unstable antagonist who was ranked 17th on AFI's Top 100 Heroes and Villains list. Bates shared that she and Reiner believed that Annie Wilkes had been sexually molested as a child by the first "dirty birdie" she encountered - her father. This informal profile is intangible to the audience, but informs Bates' performance and line delivery for their benefit. It was a labor of love, one where she participated in the common thespian practice of filling out further backstory for her character. ![]() In an interview with the New York Times, Bates got into the creative process behind becoming Annie. As Sheldon's captor, Wilkes swings between manic extremes, professing her love one moment and threatening life and limb the next. She brings him to her isolated homestead in Sidewinder, Colorado where it soon becomes clear that this Airbnb is something like Hotel California: he can check out anytime he likes, but he can never leave. As written in King's 1987 novel, Annie Wilkes is an obsessed fan (a stan even, in the Eminem sense) who rescues romance novelist Paul Sheldon ( James Caan) from a blizzard-induced car crash. ![]()
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