As for what the 60-year-old learned from the experience? Johnny—who made his large surface debut successful A Nightmare connected Elm Street—was a "very casual person" to speech to. 

"He's precise kind," Heather shared. "And he's not a showboat or, you know, helium doesn't person a large ego." 

Of course, Johnny wasn't the lone unthinkable histrion that Heather met done the film, which besides stars Robert Englund (who played Freddy Kreuger), John Saxon (Donald Thompson), Ronee Blakley (Marge Thompson), Amanda Wyss (Tina Gray) and Jsu Garcia (Rod Lane).

The histrion besides recalled spending prime clip with 1 of her onscreen parents.

"I did the aforesaid happening with Ronee Blakley to effort to fig retired what our mother-daughter narration was going to beryllium like," Heather said. "And those 2 days—the 1 with Ronnie, the 1 with Johnny—actually are immoderate of the astir memorable times I had doing the movie."

But the full movie—directed by the precocious Wes Craven—was a highly collaborative effort, with the New Nightmares prima peculiarly noting however overmuch enactment went into shooting Nancy's iconic bathtub scene. 

"It was 1 afloat day," Heather recalled. "I got there, and we were moving truthful rapidly making the movie that they mentioned the nighttime earlier that they had this vessel that they had rigged truthful I could beryllium successful there."

Recounting that the unit worked hard to support the bubbles from "dissipating" and perpetually heated beverage kettles to lukewarm the water, she went connected to praise Wes and the remainder of the accumulation squad with being "so patient" done the full process.

"People truly had to travel unneurotic to enactment that country together," she continued. "There's a batch of antithetic ideas, and it was cleanable emblem of a large country being accomplished done the efforts of everyone moving truly hard to get it done."

In the end, it coiled up being 1 of the astir terrifying scenes successful the movie—at slightest for Heather. 

"I ever retrieve the bathtub country truthful vividly due to the fact that determination was the blistery water, there's the bubbles, there's the mitt coming up betwixt my legs, which is truthful horrifying to me," she explained. "It had conscionable truthful galore aspects that I found, personally, truly scary."

And portion getting a bully scare is surely portion of the franchise's appeal, Heather is besides excited for the adjacent procreation of teens to instrumentality a larger connection distant from the archetypal erstwhile it's released connected integer and 4K UHD for the archetypal clip successful grant of its 40th anniversary. 

"They're movies not lone astir Freddie," she explained. "They're a batch astir teenagers and what they spell through. And it takes their problems truly seriously."

Warner Bros. volition merchandise 1984's A Nightmare connected Elm Street connected integer Oct. 1 and connected 4K UHD Oct. 15.