TORONTO – You might have heard of killer shoes before. Sigourney Weaver’s new movie heels take that to another level.
Weaver, a pop-culture icon who’s appeared in everything from “Alien” to “Avatar,” stars in director Bryan Fuller’s upcoming family horror film “Dust Bunny” (in theaters Dec. 5). She plays Laverne, a mysterious associate to a hitman (Mads Mikkelsen) whose young neighbor Aurora (Sophie Sloan) would like him to take out the monster under her bed.
A bunch of oddball weirdos get involved in the chaos, as does Laverne, and she does not mess around: At one point in the movie, she enters a room wearing shoes with heels that are literal guns. She takes them off, wielding them in a full-on firefight.
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Weaver compares her shoot-‘em-up pumps to a piece of art because “they’re so beautifully designed,” the 75-year-old actress says, sitting down for an interview with Fuller a few hours before a “Dust Bunny” midnight screening at Toronto Film Festival. The shoes did require some practice, though, as Weaver not only had to learn to walk in them but also how to shoot them.
