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Young Sammi Davis looks like the new SNL girl Kate McKinnon

posted 11 years ago by Alfabeta
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From the first moment I saw Sammi in the movie (the girl who steals the other golden spur from Stoltz), I knew I know the actress from somewhere, but couldn't put my finger on it. The only person i could think of was that new SNL girl Kate McKinnon
https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=Kate+McKinnon&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=RQh4UY6GLKb44QSWxoCQAQ&biw=1024&bih=556&sei=SAh4UdesGqHj4QS1rYGAAw
and she does kind of remind of her.

And then I saw the credits. It's Sammi Davis, the young feisty bisexual early 20th century teacher from Ken Russell's The Rainbow (1989) (based on D. H. Lawrence novel)!

She's playing a kid here, yet she's no kid there. How? She was almost 23 when she made Lionheart!
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0205423/
That tomboyish girl is an adult woman! Great costume and make up work by the crew.

[–] BoyScoutKevin 11 years ago

She also starred in another Ken Russell film, the previous year's "Lair of the White Worm," where she played Mary Trent

If you look at "Lionheart," there is another actor from "Lair of the White Worm in it." Chris Pitt, who played Kevin in "Lair of the White Worm," plays the character of Odo in this film.