“I Don’t Know How to Levitate”: Linda Blair Had Some Very Practical Questions About ‘The Exorcist’

“I Don’t Know How to Levitate”: Linda Blair Had Some Very Practical Questions About ‘The Exorcist’

October 5, 2026 Dread Central

Before Linda Blair could terrify audiences as Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist, somebody had to explain how she was supposed to do all that shit.

Levitate off a bed? Turn her head around? For a young actress reading about those scenes, these were apparently some pretty important qualifications she was missing.

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