But the luminous Parker is being hailed as a sexy, edgy, intelligent young starlet who, even in jaded Hollywood, is already capitalizing on her Kissed hype. On the strength of Kissed, Fox Television gave her the lead in a four-hour miniseries called Intensity, a thriller about a serial killer due to air in November. She just wrapped Twitch City, a six-part limited TV series in Toronto for director Bruce McDonald and writer Don McKellar. She has a Los Angeles agent. She has movie offers.
Life is good.
Which just shows how valuable it was to take a risk. She grows up to take it to extremes, working in a funeral parlor and mounting the corpses of men in sexual liaisons that are charged with pagan spirituality. Yet Parker spent a mere 30 minutes reading the script before telling Stopkewich she would do the film, despite the obvious weirdness and necessary nudeness of the character, both physically and emotionally. Parker was lured to an audition with Stopkewich by a friend, Kissed cinematographer Gregory Middleton, who was not allowed to mention necrophilia. Stopkewich and Parker bonded in an intense two-hour conversation that welded them as friends.