Along with gut-busting performances from stars Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson, The Bare Gun reboot options quite a lot of cameos from the unique movie together with “Weird Al” Yankovic, in addition to appearances from Busta Rhymes, Dave Bautista, and extra.
However there’s one cameo that you simply will not wish to miss: the co-star of the unique movie trilogy, Priscilla Presley.
Starring alongside Leslie Nielsen in 1988’s The Bare Gun: From the Recordsdata of Police Squad!, 1991’s The Bare Gun 2½: The Odor of Concern, and 1994’s Bare Gun 33⅓: The Closing Insult, Presley performed gloriously uncoordinated femme fatale Jane Spencer. She’s launched as an assistant to the movie’s antagonist Vincent Ludwig (Ricardo Montalbán) earlier than turning into the love curiosity of Nielsen’s bumbling protagonist Lt. Frank Drebin.
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Priscilla Presley in “The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!”
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Within the reboot, you will spy Presley as Jane sitting at house watching the published of the movie’s main battle occasion, by which Neeson’s character, Detective Frank Drebin Jr. (who’s the son of Nielsen’s character) finds himself moderately uncovered. Like the remainder of the viewers, Jane appears to be like shocked on the dangling disco balls on display.
It isn’t clear within the scene whether or not Jane recognises Neeson’s Frank Jr. or whether or not she’s taking a look at her son. Jane and Frank are married in The Bare Gun 33⅓ and the ultimate scene reveals Jane giving start to a son. Regardless, it is nice to see Presley included in The Bare Gun reboot, even when for the shortest cameo of the complete movie.
As Anderson informed Mashable, Presley herself gave The Bare Gun star a be aware earlier than filming the reboot. “Priscilla left me a message,” Anderson informed Leisure Reporter Belen Edwards. “She just said, ‘Have a good time. Embrace the silliness. You’re going to do great.'”
The movie additionally pays tribute to Nielsen, who died in 2010 on the age of 84, by means of a number of scenes involving Frank Jr. gazing at his father’s portrait inside the Police Squad constructing and later believing his spirit being channelled by means of a very well-timed owl. It is excellent.
