The Return Of Nick Castle
For the most part, Michael Myers is portrayed by James Jude Courtney in 2018’s Halloween – who’s told us that co-star Jamie Lee Curtis was so in the zone on set that he never properly spoke to her. However, director David Gordon Green couldn’t resist bringing back the original Myers actor, Nick Castle, for a few key moments of his sequel.
For one, those early scenes in which we see side shots or blurred looks at Michael’s bare face, before he’s got his mask back, are showing us Castle’s visage. At 75, the actor was unable to carry out the more physically demanding stuff and that’s why Courtney was brought in for the remainder of the movie. However, he did get to don the mask again for one particularly memorable moment.
When Laurie looks up at a window at one point, she sees Michael stop and stare back at her, tilting his head in that creepy way that he did in the first movie. Castle said he was encouraged to do this by Green as a callback to his original performance.