![]() ![]() Her eyes looked really terrifying when she glared at the camera. "But in her movies, she was a completely different person. "In real life, she was normal-she liked to joke around and talk a lot," Didin told me. "She and I just clicked," he told me over the phone. He was also the first person allowed to touch her face-most makeup artists had to use a long-handled brush and stand back a distance. He was with her on the set of Sundel Bolong, Ratu Ilmu Hitam, and Nyi Blorong. Didin Syamsudin is a respected movie makeup artist who got his first big break by working with Suzzanna back in the '80s. I reached out to the only person I could find who knew the real Suzzanna-the woman behind the head of snakes. How did she like her jasmine flowers, raw of deep-fried? Did she dip them in some sambal? Kecap manis? What did she read? Listen to? Did she ever fake an orgasm? All I know is that, today, her legacy has left me with more questions than answers. Or maybe Suzzanna was ahead of her time, a woman who was so skilled at creating her own personal brand that it eventually became all that defined her. Maybe it was all the work of a clever marketing team. ![]() She was such a mystery that a lot of Indonesians never bothered to get to know the real Suzzanna. Suzzanna was the kind of woman who cultivated an air of mystery around herself and then lived there in the fog for the rest of her life. When you look back Suzzanna's career, she unfortunately spent much of her life embodying the whole "mysterious woman" trope. Even my parents, who were young adults in the '80s were too scared to watch her films at the theater. Was it her long black hair? Her porcelain skin and big, emotive eyes? Suzzanna had this eerie way of sending a cold chill down your spine. But what was it, exactly, that made her so frightening? ![]() She ruled the screen from 1981, the year Ratu Ilmu Hitam came out, to 1991, when the fantasy drama Ajian Ratu Laut Kidul was released. I didn't realize it at the time, but Suzzanna's death marked the end of an era. I was only 12 years old when Suzzanna (real name: Suzzanna Martha Frederika van Osch) died in 2008 from complications with diabetes. ![]()
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