Margot Kinter’s tragic story: “Lois Lane” of “Superman” that ended up homeless – ate from rubbish bins

Before he dies in 2018 at the age of 69, his actor ‘Superman’; Margot Kidder (Margot Kidder)she told her friends her last wish. If they ever find her corpse, keep her death a secret. “Wrap me in a sheet and leave me in the woods, outside my house, in the mountains of Livingston, Montana, to become a food for the wolves”. Kinter loved these wolves, feeding them regularly from her back terrace. Kinter’s friends, as it was reasonable, did not comply with her request. However, there would be something strangely suited to this fate. Hollywood’s most “wild” star, at least for a few years in the 1970s, disappeared in this forest.

The audience loved her as “Lois Laine” when “Superman” went out to theaters in 1978, alongside Christopher Rey. He was the first great star of the superhero cinema, marking the dawn of the modern era with his interpretation as “Superman”. However, the “man of steel”, Christopher Rivihe would spend later, the last years of his life in a wheelchair after a terrible horse accident in 1995. Another tragic story …

She would accept the diagnosis of bipolar disorder only later in her life, but Kinter, from her childhood, carried the “stigma” of the battles she fought with her mental health. All of her personal “demons” will leave her homeless, without teeth, looking for the trash to eat. The actress told People in 1996 that she was “Like one of those ladies you see talking to space aliens in the corner of the New York street.”

He would then become a passionate advocate of mental health, though contrary to traditional medicines. And Kinter would continue to endure a series of psychological “ups and downs” before her death – in May 2018 – considered suicide. It is true that at that time many media attributed the actor’s decline to the … “superman curse”, but the actress never hid her problems and what she felt. “The reality of my life was magnificent and wonderful, interspersed with these strange bursts of madness”she had revealed herself.

He grew up in about twelve cities in the northwestern provinces of Canada, one of the five children born to a Canadian mother and an American father, who were often moved for work reasons. From an early age, she said, she knew that her brain was looking at life differently.

She made her first suicide attempt when she was 14 because a friend gave up on her. “He never went through the mind of anyone to send me to a psychiatrist”she had said herself. “I was just a teenager with a cracked heart.” She liked acting, though “no one ever encouraged me to become an actor,” the actress told Rolling Stone. “They took it as a joke. I just knew that I didn’t want to stay in a small town, get married and make babies … I wanted to eat everything on the plate of the world, but my eyes were bigger than my stomach. “

After a year at university, Margot Kinter decided to pursue her passion and started for Toronto, found a job as an actress in Canada and shortly thereafter moved to Los Angeles to star with James Garner in the 1971 TV series “Nichols” in 1971. Cinematic transfer of the book by writer Thomas McGuane. The married writer directed her and chose the actress for the female leading role, and there was an erotic romance between them. He divorced, Kinter moved to Montana and welcomed their daughter Maggie in 1975, and they got married the following year.

“I decided, for the first time in my life, to commit to a man, to become a wife and a mother. It was the only relationship I said I would go to the end ”, said the actress. “But I didn’t really commit. It was a bit unfinished. Mostly I was crying in closets. It was a great lesson. “

The actress was quickly bored with rural life and lacked acting. She suddenly phoned her agenda, Rick Nicita, while still living in Montana. And shortly thereafter “Superman” came into her life. Her “chemistry” with Rib is undoubtedly, though she later admitted that she found him “stupid” at their meeting. This role brought a reputation, money and “liberated” her from her marriage, as she and McGuane broke up, but the reputation had a price. ‘I was what I call’ ‘Margot Moviestar’ ‘told the Los Angeles Times in 1997. “Or I was trying to be. After Superman came out, I found it very difficult to manage the publicity. I wasn’t very good at that and that filled me with anxiety and panic. “

He feasted frantically, came out with many celebrities – from Pierre Trudeau to Richard Pryor – and generally gained the reputation that he was alien, charismatic and eccentric. ‘I never did anything with moderation in my life’he admitted later. He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1988, but refused to accept it and take medication.

However, a serious injury to a car accident in 1990 was decisive for the actress. She was partially paralyzed, underwent surgery two years later, but the damage and recovery left her bankrupt, as well as addicted to pills and alcohol. Her daughter, seven months after her death, told the New York Times: “What made her even more special than people can understand is all he succeeded while giving these battles …”.