There's purpose why audiences didn't see a lot of Heather Thomas, star of The Fall Man, after the present went off the air within the ’80s. The actress, who costarred with Lee Majors on all 5 seasons of the ABC present that aired from 1981 to 1986, made fewer and fewer appearances in Hollywood earlier than leaving altogether.

"I truly did some work after The Fall Man," Thomas mentioned on a current episode of Still Here Hollywood hosted by Steve Kmetko. "I did numerous motion pictures after which I used to be simply getting so many stalkers and actually, actually dangerous. Actually dangerous — at the least two per week. I had tons of restraining orders."

The action-comedy sequence instructed the story of a movie stuntman who labored as a bounty hunter at night time. It was the idea of the 2024 film that starred Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, with Blunt portraying the character of Jody Moreno. Thomas made a cameo as her character from the sequence, Jody Banks, alongside Majors as Colt Seavers.

"I had two little ladies, and a man's leaping our gate with a large buck knife," she defined. "In these days — I don't know if that is true now — however folks would fixate. You might be in a cleaning soap business, and they might fixate on you, and there weren't numerous stalker legal guidelines. And I simply wanted to be residence anyway. There was one 12 months the place I used to be residence two months, and that's not gonna elevate youngsters."

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As for the legal guidelines towards stalking, the 1989 dying of My Sister Sam actress Rebecca Schaeffer and the 1991 trial of the person who hunted her down and killed her at her residence in West Hollywood, Calif., spurred anti-stalking legal guidelines that wouldn't have been in place but in the course of the time Thomas described.
"Mine was scary. Mine was actually scary," Thomas mentioned. "I keep in mind somebody despatched me a field of bullets."

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She additionally recalled receiving funeral wreaths. She mentioned she saved a bodyguard at her home as a result of she didn't need to come residence to darkness.

"I do know I had one man, one night time lower my display in my bed room and acquired in," Thomas mentioned. "I shot him with rock salt and birdshot."

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When requested, Thomas mentioned she didn't know if the person had gone to jail.

Now 67, Thomas mentioned she stayed away "for some time." She's made three appearances since 1998, in line with IMDb.

Take heed to the complete interview under, with the dialog about stalkers starting about 6:50.

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