Audrey Hepburn was offered the role of Chris, but insisted they shoot her scenes in Rome because that is where she was living at the time, but Friedkin refused. Jane Fonda was offered the role, and an urban legend has her angrily calling back Friedkin and calling the script a "capitalist piece of shit". Fonda denies this, countering that she denied the producers politely. Shirley Maclaine, who was actually a good friend of William Peter Blatty and was the prototype and inspiration for the Chris character, (and her daughter Sacchi was the inspiration for Regan), was offered the role of Chris, and she too turned it down. She said she was uncomfortable with the "demonization and terrorization" of children in the script, but she was also very flattered that Blatty based her heroine on her. Ellen Burnstyn was the first actress who aggressively campaigned for the role, going so far as to call up Friedkin directly and tell him she "had to play this role". Her aggressiveness paid off and she won the role.

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